Anthony D. Weiner, Hiding in Plain Sight

[alp227]

Anthony D. Weiner, with Huma Abedin. The couple have been staying near the Manhattan neighborhood where they are said to live.

ON Halloween night at the Sky Rink at Chelsea Piers, a small group of men huddled around a television set while changing into their hockey uniforms, strapping guards to their shins, securing elbow pads with Velcro straps.

Around 9:40 p.m., a trim man in a red sweatshirt, blue and white checkered shorts and a blue baseball cap arrived carrying a stick and bag over his right shoulder and wordlessly navigated his way through the maze of half-dressed players as he headed toward a private dressing area.

Roughly 20 minutes later, that man, the former Representative Anthony D. Weiner of New York, appeared again, this time in an orange jersey with a No. 1 on its back, an image of a jack-o’-lantern taped to the back of his mask. Followed by the other members of his team, the Falcons, he skated to one end of the ice, shielded from a lone spectator by a wall of Plexiglas.

Many things have changed in the five months since Mr. Weiner resigned his Congressional post after sending a sexually explicit photo of himself to a college student over Twitter. He and his wife, Huma Abedin, a deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, have confirmed to friends they are expecting their first child in late December. The couple has moved out of Mr. Weiner’s co-op in Forest Hills, Queens, in his old Congressional district, and into a Manhattan apartment. And all talk that Mr. Weiner might run for mayor of New York in 2013, an office that once seemed well within his grasp, has been silenced.

full: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/fashion/anthony-d-weiner-hiding-in-plain-sight.html?pagewanted=all

[annabanana]

1. I miss the guy.

He was a reliable progressive on the talking head circuit who has not been replaced.

[barbtries]

24. i do too

i also believe that if he had not resigned all the furor would have died down by now. i sometimes go to youtube just to watch him chew out the republicans over the first responders bill. it is a thing of beauty.
hate the way the democrats turned on him and turned him loose. he did a stupid thing, not an illegal thing. oh well. i wish him and his family all the best.

[aquart]

2. Hiding?

Why should he have to hide? HE DID NOT COMMIT A CRIME.

[saras]

11. Social DINOs instead of financial DINOs. That's all. It took major D effort to bring him down

[walerosco]

16. and why is the creepy

reporter stalking the man.

[JDPriestly]

3. I miss Anthony Weiner too and hope we hear from him soon again.

If Cain can get this far after allegedly harassing women, surely Weiner, a liberal, can become active again. We need his voice and his sense of humor.

Maybe if he becomes "born again," he will be forgiven and all will be well.

Honestly, if Vitter could do it, surely Weiner can.

[bluestateguy]

4. I just want to thank him for costing us a safe seat in Congress

In a year or two he'll settle into some gig at a think tank where he'll be paid hundreds of thousands to gab.

Hope he's proud of himself!

[calimary]

7. Yeah, I thought that myself.

Not only that, but we lost another one of our only voices in Congress who articulated our rage for us.


Was it worth it, Anthony? Seriously?

[polichick]

5. I like his purse. :)

[Old and In the Way]

6. I blame gutless Democrats in Congress who wouldn't stick up for him.

A simple statement could have been made - "when Vitter resigns, we'll demand Weiner's resignation."

If Vitter could retain his seat in Congress after his diaper-wearing expose with a prostitute, than Weiner's case was a no-brainer to support and every Democrat in Congress should have backed him. BS on anyone who wants to say we need to be better than that. Being better than that cost us a seat and a fighter for healthcare reform and one of the few Democrats who wasn't afraid to call out republicans on the chamber floor. Screw the double standard hypocrites who expect Democrats to be saints while the "family values" Republicans are given a free pass.

[eleny]

8. +1

[lordsummerisle]

14. Couldn't have said it bettter n/t

[baldguy]

18. +1000

[xchrom]

19. indeed. nt

[sasha031]

9. oohh he's carrying his wife pocketbook

[frazzled]

10. That's sweet

My husband sometimes takes mine and carries it (say, I want to try something on in a dressing room; he always asks if I want him to hold my purse; or when I'm squeezing lemons in the supermarket). I think it's nice of AW to carry his pregnant wife's heavy (and expensive looking!) bag.

I think Weiner will be back in due time. Maybe after the baby's due! Nothing says forgiveness like a cute daddy-baby picture. I wish them luck.

[Arctic Dave]

12. If only he was a mayor of a town where they shot veterans in the face he would still have

a job.

I hope you puritanical bozos are proud of yourselves.

[southernyankeebelle]

13. I just don't get it. Here is a guy that has had no sex with these women he was texting yet he

has to leave office and you have Cain a known serial misbehavior and they will keep him and let him run for the highest office. I guess republican family values systems is ok with them as long as they are republicans.

[CTyankee]

20. what he did seemed to me more driven by some kind of obsession that he

seemed unable to control, even knowing that he had plenty of enemies that were lying in wait for him.

It makes people uneasy to see someone so out of touch with what their intelligence tells them is dangerous behavior, given his situation. Dangerous from a political viewpoint. He failed to recognize, or at least deal with, the reality he was given. That's a problem. He should have known that he was playing with fire, even tho his texting was nothing illegal. It's a stupid world but if you buy into that world to the degree that he did (that is, by running for office and becoming highly visible and often provocative) you also have to accept certain realities of the system. The RW in this country will stop at nothing to silence a voice as strongly progressive as Weiner's. I can't believe he didn't know that and, knowing it, proceeded to tempt fate in the way he did. Nothing we can say here can make that go away...

[LiberalFighter]

15. He plays hockey?

First I've known of hockey being played besides school or pros. And by adults.

[Chan790]

21. Where I grew up in CT, every town has an adult rec league.

It's quite common in the rural Northeast and upper Midwest.

It is a very expensive hobby though, a full set of equipment can run to $500 (more for goalies) and need to be replaced every other year. Skates and sticks could be another $200/year. Usually there in a player-fee, mostly for rink maintenance which can run to $250K/year for an indoor surface or variable (as little as half that or much more, depending on weather) for an outdoor surface. That's not even getting into the true-cost of injuries.

It can easily be a $1000/yr. sport if you don't get hurt.

[caraher]

22. I play

I don't spend that much and don't run through equipment that fast. In the past 17 years I've turned over the contents of my equipment bag twice, maybe 3 times for items that see heavier wear. It would be more expensive if I insisted on everything being in perfect condition, but I don't. I play once a week 8 months or so a year at a league fee that works out to about $20/game. Oh, and I play in leagues that disallow body checking - I don't get paid to play hockey and don't need to get hurt!

I've been hurt worse playing basketball. My worst on-ice injury was a shoulder separation that was not caused by contact but by my flaky joints.

[Chan790]

23. The key word there is "could".

It's possible to get away with cheaper, I suppose.

A lot of our town leagues here require things like new helmets every season and new faceguards every time you so much as chip or scratch one. I can't speak for others but I go through about 2 sticks a month and I like buying new skates yearly.

On the injury bug, knock on wood: I hope that luck carries through. I've blown-up a knee, broke both ankles at different times and probably spent another $5K on dentistry.

[caraher]

25. I've probably played in more low-key leagues

I wear a cage so that cuts the dentistry bill. My joints have always been bad but the problem with them is that they're loose, so while I hyperextend them (less and less often as time goes by) I think I'm a bit less prone to tearing anything.

[applegrove]

17. I'm sure he'll find a way to share his "fight" with us again.