NYC Parents Union/DC 37 Local 372 Take On Anthony Weiner

Daily Politics has posted two different stories in the last 24 hours detailing how the NYC Parents Union and DC Council Local 372 have launched two separate attack sites against mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner (here and here.)

Here's why:

District Council 37's Local 372 has launched a pre-primary broadside against the ex-congressman and mayoral hopeful, bannering two photos from his 2011 sexting scandal -- one showing Weiner gripping his privates -- on its PAC's homepage under the headline, "Disgraced Weiner Attacks Parent Coordinators."

Local 372 President Santos Crespo Jr. says with Weiner climbing in the polls -- and bent on cutting the 1,600 coordinators, who act as liaisons and advocates -- "We're going to do what we need to do to take him out."

Weiner has said parents should be involved in their kids' schooling, but believes it doesn't require paid intermediaries.

"I would not want to dismiss the possibility that [Weiner] may be the Democratic contender after the smoke clears," said Crespo, who's also a vice president of DC37, the city's biggest municipal worker union.

"Since [Weiner's] already indicated that he wants to come after our parent coordinators, I need to stop this before it gets worse down the road."

That means gearing up Local 372 for what Crespo says will be an anti-Weiner "full-court press. It's going to be press conferences. It's going to be rallies. It's going to be door-to-door [visits and] phone calls."

The point: "Aside from [his] lack of integrity and class, we’re reminding folks that this is a guy who outright lied when he asked if he had done that," Crespo said of Weiner's sketchy snapshots.

"A lot of people unfortunately do not remember that," said Crespo, who says his local will work with community and parent groups, as well as confer with other unions, to go after Weiner. "You've got to think, 'Gee, I wonder what else he would lie to the public about?'"

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Local 372's decision to give Weiner's "junk mail" the Return To Sender treatment online came shortly before the launch of a separate website, stopweiner.com.

Both web pages, which focus on the school workers who act as liaisons between families and city teachers, are the work of Mona Davids, the new political director of Local 372.

Davids said stopweiner.com, which she registered only Sunday night, is a joint effort with Local 372. It's is also meant to highlight Weiner's lewd past and publicize his call for the elimination of the parent liaisons in his "Keys To The City" blueprint for the mayoralty.

32 BJ President Hector Figueroa spoke yesterday about the importance of going after Weiner on both his ethics and his "retrogressive" politics.

It's about time that the unions wake up to the danger Weiner poses for their members and start a widespread campaign to take down his poll numbers and support.

A similar effort against Quinn has really driven down her poll numbers.

I'm betting that a month of "Did Anthony Weiner Lie About Sexting With A 17 Year Old?" ads on NY1 and other local stations would do something similar to Weiner's numbers.