Weiner’s Campaign Manager Quits After Latest Revelations

[dkf]

In a new sign of tumult within Anthony D. Weiner’s embattled political operation, his campaign manager has quit, leaving his already skeletal team without a day-to-day leader.

According to two people told of the decision, the campaign manager, Danny Kedem, no longer wished to oversee Mr. Weiner’s bid for New York mayor after a week of bruising revelations about the candidate’s latest online conduct. The two people, who have close ties to the campaign, did not want to be identified because they were disclosing confidential conversations.

Mr. Kedem, 31, informed Mr. Weiner of his decision in the last 24 hours, the two people said.

Mr. Kedem and a spokeswoman for Mr. Weiner’s campaign declined to comment.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/nyregion/weiners-campaign-manager-quits.html?_r=0

[Rowdyboy]

1. The wheels are coming off the bus....What a shame Huma didn't run instead.....

[Politicalboi]

3. Maybe she still can

And get the sympathy vote too.

[Politicalboi]

2. Break out the Weinbulance

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He did this to himself. He couldn't control his urge to flash. IMO he's getting what he deserves.

[Blue Owl]

43. Hey is that Paul Ryan at the wheel?

Did he not once pilot the Weinermobile?

[hrmjustin]

4. I have decided I am not voting for him. Most likely Thompson.

[mahina]

5. "I apologize to everyone on my team and the voters and to my family.

I'm withdrawing from this race to work on becoming a better man. I hope to be forgiven eventually. Please accept this apology and permit me to vanish from public life permanently.

Finally, anyone wishing to see a picture of my goodies, please text me at...OW"

[Dustin DeWinde]

6. its a damn shame

Weiner is a fierce defender of liberal American principles and a staunch advocate for the less powerful, but the guy has serious self control issues. Too bad, if he exercised more control over his impulses he would have made a great mayor.

[DesertFlower]

7. i agree. nt

[cali]

8. lol. codswallop. he's a fierce promoter of himself. a for shit lazy ass legislator

who did nothing but self-promote while in the House. He's never demonstrated any leadership in the House. Ever.

[Dustin DeWinde]

13. codswallop eh? well here in america

Especially here in ny we remember weiner's impassioned defense of the affordable care act. We also remember that he was outspoken in his advocacy for gun control long before it became a cause celebre.

Say what you will about his personal life but only teabaggers dislike his politics and only fools and liars deny his effectiveness.

[cali]

14. yeah? well, I'm hardly known for my "teabagger" politics.

it's complete bullshit that he was a progressive, dear. Only morons fall for his self-promoting shit.

Have a good long chew on this:

From The Nation:

<snip>

As a congressman, Anthony Weiner was a spectacularly ineffective buffoon. A recent New York Times review of his tenure in the House paints a devastating portrait: Weiner was megalomaniacal, narcissistic, bad at navigating the political ropes, alienating to potential allies, alarmingly disinterested in making actual change and really, really mean to his staff (one former aide likened him to Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada). In his twelve-plus years in Congress, the Times notes, Weiner “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.” When Democrats controlled Congress in 2007–08, Weiner introduced fifty bills but didn’t get so much as a cosponsor on thirty-nine of them. According to a former staffer quoted by the Times, “He just never tried…. The point was to be able to say he introduced a bill.” Yes, Weiner squawked loudly about single-payer healthcare, but his interest in it always smacked of grandstanding opportunism. When the ACA finally came up for a vote, Weiner threatened to hold it up in committee unless he could introduce a single-payer amendment—a noble cause, which he bartered away not for any policy concessions but for a primetime speaking slot and a letter of recommendation from Nancy Pelosi.

And that’s just his record on domestic issues. When it comes to foreign policy, Weiner can give Liz Cheney a run for her money. He was one of eighty-two Democrats who voted for the Iraq War, and he continued to support its funding long after its flimsy rationale had evaporated. But it’s on the subject of Israel/Palestine that Weiner truly distinguishes himself. At least twice in public, he has insisted that the West Bank is not occupied, denying a fact that even right-wing former Israeli Prime Minister and settler movement architect Ariel Sharon admitted a decade ago (for a complete account and video of Weiner’s statements, see Ali Gharib’s report for The Daily Beast). He has also claimed that there is no Israeli military presence in the West Bank, which would be news to the IDF soldiers stationed there. As Stephen Zunes points out, Weiner’s denial fits squarely in a disturbing pattern of squelching criticism of the Israeli state and of making patently untrue statements to do so, including claiming that the United States recognizes the PLO as a “terrorist organization” twenty years after it ceased using that designation. These statements reveal Weiner to be a knowing liar or a willfully ignorant ideologue, either of which should disqualify him from holding public office.

<snip>

http://www.thenation.com/blog/175418/defense-carlos-danger#ixzz2aKvvNKG8

[Dustin DeWinde]

17. so you think that from your armcair in england you

Know what's best for new Yorkers even more than we new Yorkers do??
The article you cited, apart from being merely one person's opinion, chastises Weiner for wanting universal health care and in the next breath chastises him for not obstructing the entire affordable care act till he got his way.

Obviously weiners self control issues cast doubt on his ability to govern the greatest city on earth, but his liberal credentials and his fighting spirit are beyond reproach
And by the way the reason we kicked British butt in 1776 was because we didn't want you Brits to have a say in any of our elections. But no worries "mate" we will reciprocate by not telling you how foolish your worship of the "royal" family is.

[cali]

20. say what, hon? I'm not in England.

I'm not British. I'm a U.S. citizen, born here.

I hope you're enjoying feeling foolish.

[Dustin DeWinde]

23. sure ya are "mate"

As you people say, codswallop
Oh and the English queen is the ugliest woman on the planet

[cali]

24. virtually everyone who's posted here for any amount of time

knows I live in Vermont's beautiful and strange Northeast Kingdom.

Yes, I like the word codswallop. That hardly makes me british, sweets.

[Dreamer Tatum]

39. My heavens. What, was "I'M A TROLL" already taken when you picked screen names? nt

[cali]

40. I'm going to take that as a joke.

[Dreamer Tatum]

41. Replied to the wrong message. Not even a joke, but an error. nt

[cali]

15. and btw, de Blasio is an actual progressive not a self-serving phony like

Weiner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_de_Blasio

[Dustin DeWinde]

18. de blasio? lmao. you are so obvious

I'm sure you are just parroting Joan Walsh but here is the line of reasoning you are allying yourself with:

Liu is an Asian so...
Quinn is .oot only a female but one o them thar lesbians so...
Crikey Weiner is a Jewish guy so...
Bloody hell, Thompson is black so...
Hey that insignificant twerp de blasio doesn't offend our bigoted sensibilities as much as the others.
Sure he's an I-.talian but look at the others. De blasio it is
Shame on you for being so willing even eager to endorse others bigotry without knowing what's going on
And if you do know and endorse it any way double shame.
This conversation is over.

[cali]

21. obvious? huh. who the hell are YOU?

Bigotry. Take that accusation and put it somewhere... well, honey, you know where you can put that shit. back where it came from.

shame, shame shame on you.

[allin99]

30. ouch. what is up with people here calling everyone...

racist all the time?

[cali]

32. stupidity and craven shit.

[allin99]

38. oh, new poster. wonder what his deal is?..

calling bdb a twerp? lol. you could not know anything about DeBlasio and be a progressive and call the man a twerp, it just makes absolutely no sense.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

42. So what's your handle at CC?

You're probably back there laughing about riling up all the "white guilt" liberals.

[Gravitycollapse]

9. Anthony Weiner is one of the more fervent zionists I've come across.

[Raine]

10. All he ever did was run his big mouth in front of the cameras and make a

spectacle of himself, he did nothing else.

[DCBob]

12. LOL.. he is a fraud.

Like a used car salesman selling lemons.

[DCBob]

11. We must be nearing the end of the circus.

It cant come soon enough.

[The Straight Story]

16. He couldn't swallow anymore from weiner

[Agschmid]

22. Oh my gawd.

[alp227]

19. A joke. What do Anthony Weiner and Michael Jackson have in common?

They're both DANGEROUS!



(heh heh, and we know what OTHER "dangerous" things Jackson did in his private life...)

[allin99]

25. Good. One step closer to saying goodbye to mr. phoney weiner balony...

he has always been nothing more than a self-obsessed whiny annoying smarmy phony.

BYE CARLOS! Don't let the door hitcha on the way out!

i don't even care about his sexting, i just think he's a royal asshat.

yay! my city was saved by his uncontrolable stupidity! woot!

Where's the happy dance smiley?

[warrprayer]

26. Amazing how many Puritans we have on a progressive website.

They somehow remind me of the rethugs howling for Clinton to resign.

[allin99]

27. it's weird how many non-ny'ers are so upset about it....

i just never liked the guy, thought he was a phony douche from day one...if he wants to text, go for it, although i think he should be not so dumb and use the phone instead so as a ny'er i don't have to constantly hear about his drama and hear his wife go on abut her therapy,

but i don't understand what is going on with people who are not from ny. I have something to lose if this phony is my mayor. everyone else on the otherhand...

(i actually got LUCKY he's dumb enough to spread images around around, lol. DOH)

[dkf]

28. He is embarrassing and impossible to defend.

That's the problem

[allin99]

36. he's just so weak and silly...it's not even that he texted...

his dick, but when you look at what was the underlying factor in that, it's those qualities that are part of the rest of him that is so annoying. I personally think he has some seriously deep seated insecurities, and is highly immature, no wait, juvenile. When i saw him take to the floor in congress, i was just so unimpressed. Oh look, you can throw a tantrum. then "oh, maybe the crotch picture isn't mine". Either deny or don't deny, don't give me this half-assed bullshit. He acts like a damn child.

i like my pols tougher. more serious. less ridiculous. more credible.

and whatever the problem actually is, that's got to be such a serious problem that he can't even think to change the mo to something that can't be proven and displayed. that's insanity. and his wife rambling about her therapy in a press conference? lol. Gimme a freakin' break. It's something right out of SNL.

NEXT!

[cali]

29. lol, sweets. you keep telling yourself the absurd nonsense

that this is about people being "puritanical". Of course that's a heaping pile o' crap, but carry on.

It's amazing that some people don't realize how transparent they are.

[warrprayer]

31. Hell-oooooo....

"The issue of lying is probably the biggest harm, if you will, to the system of Democratic government, representatives government, because it undermines trust," he told CNN. "And if you undermine trust in our system, you undermine everything."

- Mark Sanford

Sounds like there's an echo in here...

[cali]

33. seriously? you're using a quote from Sanford?

to try and smear me? Nonsensically, I might add, honeypie.

[warrprayer]

34. Cali

I don't want to smear you at all. There are many things we agree on and support your posts on. This is just not one of them. Please don't take offense. I didn't mean it personally. Apologies.

[cali]

35. OK we'll leave it at that.

[warrprayer]

37. ...