Is Anthony Weiner already suffering electoral dysfunction?
The newly minted mayoral candidate had his first snafu Thursday after members of the blogosphere, studying his recently launched campaign site, realized the urban backdrop on it wasn’t New York City.
It was Pittsburgh.
For the first several days of Weiner’s campaign, the top of the his official site, www.anthonyweiner.com, showed a faded image of an urban setting over a blue backdrop.
Most viewers simply assumed it was New York City, given that Weiner, a Brooklyn native, is, in fact, running to be the city’s next mayor.
But on Thursday, several Pittsburgh bloggers and tweeters, including an employee at the University of Pittsburgh, noticed that the photo appeared to contain images of the Roberto Clemente Bridge and other “Steel City” landmarks.
The image, however, was changed around 4 p.m. Thursday, to an urban landscape resembling New York City as news of the embarrassing mistake spread.
Towards the very end Weiner got a little schmaltzy about mistakes, giving him another chance and his wife chiming in as the dutiful, supportive person.
ReplyDeleteI do believe that everyone deserves a second chance, but he should have earned that second chance by getting behind the other candidates, DeBlasio or Liu, that have worked extremely hard to protect the schools, the teachers, and of course the middle class. Doing that instead of jumping into this election would have won the public over, down the road in the next mayoral election.
Weiners needs to go somewhere else and be a politician another city and come back to NYC when people have actually forgotten his disgraceful public behavior.
Interestingly, Weiner does not believe others deserve a second chance. Not in his school discipline code, at any rate:
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Weiner couldn't back anybody else because he is constitutionally incapable of it - it's always about him. One of the reasons he had to leave office over the scandal is because no one in D.C. backed him because no one in D.C. likes him. He has no friends - he's too much ego even for the ego maniacs in Washington.