anthony weiner

Anthony Weiner is the U.S Representative from New York's 9th Congressional District, and has been serving in the House since 1999. Weiner is known to be one of the most intense and demanding members of Congress. He often works long hours with his staff fact-checking documents, resulting in one of the highest staff turn-over rates of any member of Congress, including, at one point, three chiefs of staff in eighteen months. Weiner admitted, "I push people pretty hard... I have nothing but love for people who endured it, even if they endured it for a short period of time."

Weiner was caught up in a Twitter scandal, where an inappropriate picture was tweeter from his Twitter account to a female college student in May 2011. Weiner claimed that he did not send the picture, but couldn't say for sure whether or not the picture is of him. Media sources and political commentators dubbed the controversy Weinergate.

Although Weiner is one of the most outspoken members of Congress, and despite the most recent controversy, there are few blogs that cover Anthony Weiner specifically. There is the Weiner Blog, which appears to be maintained by Weiner or his personal associates (based on the fact that there aren't any posts since, or regarding, Weinergate).

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Original Technorati articles tagged “anthony weiner”

• in Politics
  At Least Herman Cain Didn't Show His Weiner
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  A Sexting Briefing for Politicians
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  by allisonmidorireilly / on Sep 12, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “anthony weiner”

 

• Weiner was a lame congressman well before scandal

  
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  From the NY Times : In 12 ½ years in Congress, he sponsored and wrote only one bill that he steered to enactment: a measure pushed by a family friend who gave his campaigns tens of thousands of dollars in donations. To his admirers, Anthony Weiner was a tireless spokesman for an endlessly changing array of issues ...
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• Anthony Weiner: I No Longer Toss Salad

  
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  Anthony Weiner has yet again provided hilarity to New York Citys tabloids in response to a New York Times story that recounts his famed temper. From the Times : In 2005, he became so irritated with a staff member that he threw a salad against the wall, then left the room as the dressing slowly dripped, leaving ...
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• Anthony Weiner Takes Credit For the Phrase ‘Obamacare’

  
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  Following in the same ‘vain’ as previous delusional Democrats such as Al Gore , who once famously proclaimed to have taken the “initiative in creating the internet”, and more recently, Ed Markey , who seemingly took credit for every social media medium under the sun, New York City mayoral candidate Anthony ...
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• Is Weiner’s Bigotry the New New York?

  
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  The Times on Thursday ran a lengthy profile of Anthony Weiner,  former very liberal congressman and staunchly right-wing Zionist.  The paper depicts him, basically, as a jerk. The piece doesn’t mention the sexting scandal that drove him from office two years ago but casts a baleful eye on his achievements as a ...
  5 days ago

• Anthony Weiner sounds like not a great boss: "In 2005, he became so irritated with a staff member th

  
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  Anthony Weiner sounds like not a great boss : "In 2005, he became so irritated with a staff member that he threw a salad against the wall ... Another time, arguing with an aide, Mr. Weiner threw his BlackBerry against a wall, then blamed the aide for the broken phone." Read more...        
  6 days ago

• Anthony Weiner: Obamacare is my word

  
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  New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner says he coined the term “Obamacare.” When he was in Congress, the Democrat was a frequent guest on cable-TV shows during the height of the 2009 debate over health care. Near the bottom of a New York Times article about Weiner’s legislative record, the story of how ...
  6 days ago

• Too much info!

  
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  From the Daily News : Is this the mayor’s race? Or the Oprah Winfrey show? On Monday, Democrat Bill de Blasio shared intimate details of his life, releasing a campaign ad in which he revealed that his troubled childhood and father’s alcoholism led him to doubt that he’d ever have a committed relationship. ...
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• Hamilton the Hipster Cat Visits Tashiro-jima

  
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  When I went through Navy OCS in Pensacola, there were two sand pits called the Rose Garden and the SUYA ( sand up yer. . . ) One irritating thing I noticed while doing pushups in the SUYA- there were also local stray cats on base. And kitties take to sand like bloggers take to mocking Anthony Weiner. It’s a target ...
  1 week ago

• Pick Fights with Voters, Win Race

  
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  It was a slow week in the mayoral campaign.  The only moments of excitement came from Weiner yelling at the people he expects to get votes from, and Quinns various media appearances as part of her book tour.  This weeks installment of the "New York City Mayoral Candidates Power Standings (or something like that)" ...
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• Liu stands his ground, Weiner impresses in charter-led forum

  
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  Former congressman and mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner poses with a parent and student from Girls Prep Bronx at a forum led by charter school parents Tuesday night. Many parents gave Weiner a favorable review. Some mayoral candidates who have been critical of charter schools avoided uncomfortable questions by ...
  1 week ago

• Weiner Wins Recognition Survey

  
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  The New York Observer conducted an informal survey of whether this years mayoral candidates are recognizable to people on the streets.  Perhaps unsurprisingly, Anthony Weiner has the most-recognizable face, but heres the interesting part of the survey. Not one out of 20 African-Americans we spoke to in ...
  1 week ago

• Green Party Smacks Around Anthony Weiner At Forum

  
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  The Green Party Smacks Around Anthony Weiner By Ross Barkan Published June 11, 2013 on Politicker.com Anthony Weiner and Sal Albanese at a Staten Island mayoral forum. Anthony Weiner took a beating on his first official stop in Staten Island Monday night. Mr. Weiner was repeatedly hit by his rivals, ...
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• Anthony Mounts a Comeback: Will the Weiner Rise Again? (VIDEO)

  
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  The notion of Anthony Weiner running for mayor of New York represents the best of both…a melodramatic train wreck wrought with myriad storylines and plot twists that you watch with equal parts intrigue and disgust. A train wreck of which you could not avert your eyes if you tried.
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• Anthony Mounts a Comeback: Will the Weiner Rise Again? (VIDEO)

  
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  The notion of Anthony Weiner running for mayor of New York represents the best of both…a melodramatic train wreck wrought with myriad storylines and plot twists that you watch with equal parts intrigue and disgust. A train wreck of which you could not avert your eyes if you tried.
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• The Swamp Kingdom Stinketh

  
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  Scandals my foot. IRS, NSA, DOJ, and Benghazi are not scandals. Anthony Weiner’s sexting expedition was a scandal. A legislator playing footsie at a public restroom was a scandal. When multiple players at the highest levels of government act in... Read More ›
  1 week ago

• Weiner’s Joke Makes Audience Uncomfortable

  
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  Were you raising your hand or flirting with me? — Anthony Weiner, quoted by Politicker, noting the “off-the-cuff comment drew laughter — if slightly uncomfortable — from the largely positive crowd.”
  1 week ago

• Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

  
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  Author:  Steve Hochstadt Image via Shutterstock. I read an article the other day about a famous liar, Jonah Lehrer. Less than a year ago, Lehrer was a writer for the New Yorker , one of the most prestigious jobs in journalism. He was caught ...
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• Lying Liar Anthony Weiner’s Underage Girl Problem

  
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  By Michelle Malkin ~ Touchy, touchy. Despite Team Anthony Weiner’s best efforts at political rehabilitation, there’s just no way to shore up his sorest scandal spot. As the New York Post reported this week, Weiner had a bit of a snit fit when a local Democratic official boldly slammed his sexting habits with ...
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• Weiner really wants FMCP soccer stadium

  
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  From NY Post : “I’m a pro-development Democrat. I think we should build and grow the city as we go and I want to do it smartly,” the ex-Queens congressman said when the topic of sports came up at the Terrace on the Park event. “I would love to have major league soccer here in Queens. Heck, I’d love to ...
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• FiveThirtyEight: Early Leader in Polls Usually Wins New York Mayoral Primary

  
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  The early Democratic frontrunner in recent New York City mayoral races has a near perfect record in going on to win the party’s nomination, according to an analysis of polls conducted since 1989.        
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