Spitzer: Weiner shouldn’t be mayor
Source: Washington Post
After previously declining to cast judgment on Anthony Weiners foibles, Eliot Spitzer said Monday that Weiner should not be mayor of New York City.
During an interview with MSNBCs Hardball with Chris Matthews, Spitzer declined to say who he was going to vote for in the mayors race, which is up the ballot from his comptrollers contest.
Eventually, Matthews asked him if he thought Weiner should not be mayor.
That is correct, Spitzer relented.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/07/29/spitzer-weiner-shouldnt-be-mayor/
dkf
(37,305 posts)That's sad.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)AAO
(3,300 posts)Response to Freddie Stubbs (Original post)
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AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)I don't care what his proclivities are. Has he ever used his position to gain favors or do anything unethical, yes or no?
If no, fuck it, I don't care who he wants to text or pic or even sleep with. I don't give a shit. That's between him and his wife, and no one else. Do not care.
Spitzer, on the other hand, his fucking JOB was to prosecute people breaking the law, while he himself was breaking the law. He should have the sense to keep his fucking mouth shut at least.
alp227
(32,030 posts)He's approaching psychopath territory what he's done after resigning Congress. He oughta be persona non grata in politics.
nytemare
(10,888 posts)The guy has so much potential, so much passion. To just keep doing this stupid crap, and just not really care about it, knowing what's at risk just floors me.
Renew Deal
(81,861 posts)That's pretty unethical. That's aside from sending crotch shots to college girls while his pregnant wife sat at home.
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)Not exactly what I'd call a model for how cities should hire.
ancianita
(36,075 posts)Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)It's surprising how quickly everyone here conveniently forgets his righteous rant on the floor of the House against the Republicans in the House of Representatives who weren't going to pass the bill paying for health benefits for those firefighters who suffered from working in New York City in the weeks after the attacks in September 2001!!!
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)Everybody else--puritans, hypocrites, whoever--needs to STFU.
christx30
(6,241 posts)the voters will decide, one way or another. But everyone has the right to express an opinion on the subject. If person x doesn't like the idea of any politician being elected, he has the right to say that. Everyone will have their say.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)I just live in the hope that someday Americans will get over their unhealthy obsession with sex, especially other peoples.
christx30
(6,241 posts)stupid stuff either, except irt as a pattern if behavior, and an unwillingness or inability to learn from past mistakes.
And anyone that sends unsolicited dick pics to someone they aren't sleeping with is kind of creepy. He's a flasher in a park without the trenchcoat.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)Wiener's an idiot and Spitzer is a hypocrite. They make quite a pair.
Elmergantry
(884 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)The Tour de Pants!
JI7
(89,252 posts)my worry about this was that it might drag spitzer down. hopefully it doesn't.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)Tweedie got the pot to call the kettle black. It's 'gotcha journalism' of the finest kind.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)Dan rather, on Piers Morgan, just declared Wiener "too creepy even for New York."
ancianita
(36,075 posts)Fight for Weiner's and Spitzer's past achievements and for their stands on progressive issues. This will go away if Democrats UNITE around good progressive candidates instead of running like a bunch of pansies over what is clearly media drama.
Suddenly you all give a shit about the cheap manipulations of Chris Matthews? PUH-LEASE.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)Weiner shouldn't be mayor.
Maybe he has reasons other than hypocritical ones to not back Weiner. Maybe Spitzer has reasons totally unrelated to Weiner's sexual sophomoric behavior.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Spitzer slept with a prostitute and Wiener can't keeps his wiener in his pants.
ancianita
(36,075 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)should be impeached asap? hey republican media arm? how about old Newt witnessed getting BJ in car ? why does he still have a career with the republican party?
let's drag out the old aol chat rooms off server storage, link the isp to todays politicans and see what they chatted and the pics they linked.
should 'cons ask every politican to list every porn video they ever watched? wait until they say "none" then catch them in a lie with some college roommate statement?
This is one of the paths republicans have and will take, to continue to hold America hostage forever.
ancianita
(36,075 posts)from private foibles, or we never would have had John Fucking Kennedy.
So fucking grow up, DU! UNITE behind your progressives!
Nay
(12,051 posts)Myrina
(12,296 posts)I love ya' Eliot but damn, son, SHUT UP about personal issues. You are not one to talk!!!
nsd
(2,406 posts)The hypocrisy of this guy!
He was a prosecutor. He aggressively prosecuted people for the very crime he committed! Arghhhh!
I actually agree that Weiner shouldn't be mayor, but the idea that Spitzer dares to stand in judgment is so infuriating. Maybe Weiner is a jackass, but Spitzer is worse.
jessie04
(1,528 posts)nt