Anthony Weiner
Anthony Weiner
Anthony David Weineris an American politician and former U.S. representative who served New York's 9th congressional district from January 1999 until June 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he won seven terms, never receiving less than 59% of the vote. Weiner resigned from Congress in June 2011 due to a sexting scandal...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth4 September 1964
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
The gentleman will sit! The gentleman is correct in sitting!
Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.
There's no doubt about it that Mubarak has been indeed a partner with Israel, but there's also no doubt about something else. Conditions in Egypt were getting worse and worse, and it was almost just a matter of time before the popular uprising started.
New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.
A former congressman on his sexting habit: I have made terrible mistakes. I have not been honest with myself, my family, my constituents, my friends and supporters and the media.
For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online.
Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.
For those of us who live in the shadow of this noisy monster, there aren't too many of us who are sorry to see it go.
Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.
I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife, Huma.
I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time.
We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things.
Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.
We're trying to get to the bottom of where the picture came from, and we're trying to get to the bottom of what it's of and who it's of.