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Embattled New York Congressman, Anthony Weiner, is having a hard time. I’ve recently been getting calls on how to mitigate this crisis but frankly, didn’t want to touch it (the issue) because the options are so limited in so far as achieving any definitive reputational resolution
Consider:
1. Rep. Weiner is cursed with a terribly attractive surname for this kind of crisis and gets negative media traction even without the current situation enlarging it.
2. He lied, then held a press conference and admitted to sending the lewd pics.
3. Tiger Woods has already used the “sex-addict” defense and former fiend and NY governor, Elliot Spitzer, has already taken up any cable news commentator options.
4. IMF chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has put the sex scandal issue as a whole on the global radar.
5. Most detrimental to Weiner’s career is that his pregnant wife, Huma Abedin, is a trusted aide to Secretary Hillary Clinton—who has considerable experience in these matters and is most likely shutting down all of Weiner’s political options. (He’s apologized to the Clintons by the way).
6. Lastly, Oprah’s retired.
So what should Mr. Weiner do from here? Well, on the one hand he’s lucky that the recent spate of sex-capades has somewhat desensitized the general public, so this story probably won’t be “above the fold” in next week’s papers.
On the other hand, his political career is finished. Even though it appears that Weiner didn’t have a physical relationship with the women in question, he needs to resign and beat the House Ethics Committee to the punch.
One piece of business he should conduct before evacuating the family to the Bahamas to write some new chapters for the book: Post a mea culpa on Twitter, Facebook and a video on YouTube. As Bill Bradley from News West succinctly pointed out in his recent HuffPost article, Weiner can now lay claim to conducting the first big social media political sex scandal. So he might as well thank the digital community for getting him here. (Key messages and TPs available upon request).
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