Weiner’s Campaign Manager Quits After Candidate’s Disclosures
By Henry Goldman - Jul 28, 2013 8:16 AM PT
Danny Kedem, 31, left the campaign this weekend, said Barbara Morgan, a Weiner spokeswoman. Kedem, reached by telephone, declined to discuss the circumstances of his break with Weiner saying, “my official word is no comment.”
New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner pauses while speaking with reporters in Staten Island on a visit to homes damaged by Hurricane Sandy, in New York City, on July 26, 2013. Photographer: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Weiner later said he had similar exchanges with six to 10 women. He said three may have occurred after he resigned from Congress about two years ago over similar behavior.
Weiner, 48, said he would continue his campaign after calls for him to drop out from the city’s major daily newspapers.
Kedem, a former campaign adviser affiliated with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, began working with Weiner in May.
In the past week, U.S. Representative Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, and Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, said Weiner should leave the race.
‘Tremendous Pressure’
“I suspect there’s been a tremendous pressure on Kedem from labor campaigns and others who oppose Weiner, and I’m sure Kedem’s interested in remaining in this business, and he can’t take the pressure and he’s leaving,” said Joseph Mercurio, a New York-based political consultant who teaches political science at Fordham University in New York.“Weiner has the money, and he’s a savvy pol, so I would think he can find someone else,” said Mercurio, who worked in former President Bill Clinton’s first campaign for Arkansas governor.
In the poll released July 25, Weiner had support from 16 percent of registered Democrats, after coming in first with 25 percent in a June 25 poll. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn topped the field in the new survey with 25 percent after receiving 20 percent last month.
Former City Comptroller William Thompson and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio each drew 14 percent.
The survey was taken the day after the gossip website TheDirty.com on July 23 posted exchanges between a woman and a man it said was Weiner. The site showed explicit photos sent under the user name “Carlos Danger,” whom the website identified as the former congressman.
In an e-mail the same day, Weiner said, “While some things that have been posted today are true and some are not, there is no question that what I did was wrong.” The behavior, he said, “is behind me.”
To contact the reporter on this story: Henry Goldman in New York at hgoldman@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Stephen Merelman at smerelman@bloomberg.net
Anthony Weiner on ropes: more questions and Clintons want him out (+video)
Anthony Weiner had a bad Sunday. His campaign manager quit this weekend, and on Sunday, a confidante of the Clintons said they want him to drop out of the New York mayor's race. There are also new questions about $43,100 of campaign money he spent in 2011.
Democratic
candidate for New York City mayor Anthony Weiner speaks to members of
Brownsville Community Baptist Church in the Brooklyn borough of New York
Sunday.
Eduardo Munoz/Reuters
[Updated 6:30 p.m. EDT] Whatever one may think about Anthony Weiner, he has no small amount of pluck.
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Weiner's campaign limps forward
But at this point, is sheer force of will enough to get him to Election Day on Nov. 5?
On one hand, Weiner's refusal to drop out of the race speaks to underlying political realities, some of which don't look all that bad.
True, what we learned Tuesday is undeniably awful. It turns out that a year after the married congressman was forced to resign from his post in Washington because he was trading raunchy and racy online posts with single women (and then lying about it), he was still doing it.
But in a way, that makes his run for mayor this year all the more important. While it's possible he could have a third act at some distant future, the new revelations – heaped on the previous revelations – mean he either wins this race or he's taking a long siesta from politics. That's something he clearly doesn't want to contemplate.
Moreover, he and his wife, Huma Abedin, seemed prepared for all this. Never mind that he called himself "Carlos Danger" and carried on explicitly sexual conversations with a 20-something named Sydney Leathers last year, to them it's old news, and regardless of this baggage, they think he is a politician that can help New York. They seem happy to let the voters decide one way or the other.
And while future polls could get worse, he's hardly out of the picture – still in second place with 19 percent of the vote compared with 25 percent for front-runner Christine Quinn. He's also go plenty of money for the time being. In fact, Weiner has $4.8 million, second only to Ms. Quinn's $6 million, according to a report by the New York Daily News published a week before the new scandal surfaced.
So it's possible that, for Weiner, things are playing out largely as he expected in a worst-case scenario. For someone who had the pluck to run for mayor of America's biggest apple two years after being paraded in public in the Internet age's answer to tar and feathers, a week of bad press might not seem a game-changer.
New Monica Lewinsky ‘Sex Tape’ Reportedly Leaks
A new Monica Lewinsky “sex tape” is
reportedly set to drop, featuring a recording of Lewinsky planning an
amorous encounter with President Bill Clinton in 1997.
AP
Radar Online
published written excerpts of the alleged three-minute recording, which
is said to be in Thursday’s new issue of the National Enquirer, but is
not online yet.
According to Radar, the former White
House intern told Clinton she was “too cute and adorable” to be ignored.
Clinton’s voice is not heard.
“I could take my clothes off and
start…well…I know you wouldn’t enjoy that? I hope to see you later and I
hope you will follow my script and do what I want,” Lewinsky reportedly
said in the recording.
Lewinsky reportedly suggested Clinton use his secretary to help orchestrate a covert meetup.
“Now the first thing that has to happen
is that you need to pre-plan with Betty that you will leave the office
at, I don’t know, at 7, 7:30 so that everyone else who hates me that
causes me lots of trouble goes home,” she said. “Then you quickly sneak
back and then in the meantime I quickly sneak over and then we can have a
nice little visit for, you know, 15 minutes or half an hour. Whatever
you want.”
According to Radar, the tape was believed to have been destroyed, but a secret copy was made and is now surfacing.
In it, Lewinsky also reportedly
suggested watching a movie with Clinton and having “I don’t know, boxed
dinners or something like that.”
“And then that way we don’t have to
deal with the problem of me…of there being a record of me going upstairs
and we can spend some time together and see a good movie,” she said.
“So I don’t know, those are two proposals and you can’t refuse me
because I’m too cute and adorable and soon I won’t be here anymore to
pop over. … I’m very persistent, but um… I really want to see you.”
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