Anthony Weiner Gets Celebrity Treatment in Brooklyn

[hrmjustin]

After a policy-heavy press conference this morning, Anthony Weiner did what mayoral candidates in this race rarely do: signed an autograph.

Mr. Weiner had wrapped up an event in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn–where he stood outside a kosher supermarket touting his plan to allow small business owners to contest fines on their blocks using mobile vans–when a woman, bashful at first, approached the former congressman to ask for an autograph.

“Do you think he’ll give me an autograph?” the woman, 60 year-old Anna Gordon, asked Politicker beforehand. “I love him.”

As Mr. Weiner, made famous by the Twitter scandal that forced him to resign two years ago, finished speaking with one of his petitioners, Ms. Gordon ambled up to Mr. Weiner to ask him to sign a piece of paper.

Read more at http://politicker.com/2013/06/anthony-weiner-gets-celebrity-treatment-in-brooklyn/

[In_The_Wind]

1. omg

[msongs]

2. evidently waving your hoo hoo on the internet is a smart career move lol nt

[hrmjustin]

3. I saw him at the Brooklyn Pride parade and and he got a very good reception.

[Smarmie Doofus]

4. Even though I will almost certainly work and donate against him --he supports and takes $$ from ...

....charter school operators (and they ARE *operators*)-- and is therefore part of the fundamental socioeconomic *problem* of our time ( wealth inequality) , and not part of the solution...... I have to say that he was a fairly steady - if low-profile - supporter of LGBT rights in the 90's when he represented that largely anti-gay Orthodox council district in BKLYN.

[hrmjustin]

5. I remember his second term primary in congress his opponent pointed out he was not

married! It did not hurt him in the end.

[TreasonousBastard]

6. Lessee what Bay Ridge thinks of him...

While I gotta admit I'm a little surprised at the extent of the love, Weiner has always been a lot more than his wiener and did a lot for his district. Or at least they thought he did, and they loved him for it.

We laugh at the rightwing idjits who vote for their guys toe dancing in the mens room or otherwise hanging out on the low rungs of society, but everyone sees their own politicians through their own filters and we all manage to somehow see what's important to us. Most of us do, anyway.

[hrmjustin]

7. Bay Ridge will vote for him in the primary. as for the general who knows.

I have lived in Bay Ridge my whole life and the voting here can go either way in terms of Dems and GOP. I think he is riding the anti-Quinn vote.

[TreasonousBastard]

8. Is anti-Quinn really that big? Been outta...

NYC politix for years and don't know much about real trends vs. attack the leader games.

[hrmjustin]

9. You should see the commercials. She only gets a quarter of the vote in the primary.

People don't like her because she does what Lord Bloomberg tells her to and she comes off as really bossy. She also tends to talk down t you especially if you disagree with her. MY guess is she and Weiner will get to the runoff. Who wins then is still up for debate. The nominee is likely to win in the end because the GOP filed this year is weak.