Anthony D. Weiner, the embattled candidate for mayor of New York City, acknowledged on Thursday that he had engaged in inappropriate online communications with up to three women since leaving Congress two years ago, as his campaign entered a troubled and circuslike phase.
The remarks were his most detailed yet on his actions in the months after he resigned from office, in June 2011. Mr. Weiner had left many voters with the impression that his lewd behavior had ceased after his resignation, but after another episode became widely known on Tuesday, he acknowledged that his habit of sending messages to young women he met online had continued.
Mr. Weiner, a Democrat, said he was still seeking professional help for his online behavior, which he did not believe was an addiction.
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The blog called The Dirty posted what it said were uncensored photographs of his penis, taken from various angles, and said Mr. Weiner had sent the pictures to a woman, [who] publicly identified herself for the first time The images quickly zoomed across social media sites. ----
The woman, 22-year-old Sydney Leathers, ...in an interview with “Inside Edition,” a television show, which released excerpts from its report. “I’m disgusted by him,” she told the show. “He’s not who I thought he was.”
During the interview, Ms. Leathers was asked whether she told Mr. Weiner that she loved him. “Yes,” she replied. Asked if Mr. Weiner had said he loved her, she replied, “Yes.”
Asked what advice she would now give Mr. Weiner, she said, “Stop lying, stop embarrassing his wife and get help.”
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....people close to the woman, ...have begun to talk. “God help New York if he gets elected,” said her mother, who lives in Illinois. A childhood friend said Leathers told her last summer she was texting with Weiner. “I go, ‘Really? THE Anthony Weiner, Mr. Penis Guy?’” the friend said. “I said, ‘Doesn’t he have a wife?’ She said, ‘Oh yeah.’ She just kind of brushed it off like it was nothing.” The friend said Leathers likely tried to get to Weiner on purpose. “He was so stupid to get involved with someone like her.” Other high school friends (who of course may no longer be friends) said her “main goal” was to become famous.Read it at THE N.Y. TIMES
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July 25, 2013 8:13 AM
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If Weiner dropped out, Quinn’s support would rise to 30 percent, according to a Marist poll, taken immediately before his latest sexual twitter admissions. [But the poll indicated] she would lose to Thompson in a runoff.
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