New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg isn’t weighing in on whether former Rep. Anthony Weiner should get into the race to succeed him.
Bloomberg said Wednesday that it’s up to Weiner to decide. The mayor says that in the meantime, the media should focus on issues facing the city, not on Weiner’s past.
Weiner is back in the headlines and late-night comedy monologues after telling the New York Times Magazine that he’s weighing a mayoral bid.
The seven-term Democrat resigned from Congress in 2011 after tweeting an inappropriate photo of himself. He initially claimed his Twitter account had been hacked.
Bloomberg says Weiner’s history is “totally irrelevant to the problems of the city.”
(AP)
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Mr. Mayor of course his past activities reflect on his ability to run this city.Do we want this person as a role model for our children? Moreover as a congresman he took positions that were not those of his constituents but rather his own radical views, and those of the leadership of Congress ( Nancy Pelosi). He is in favor of according Terrorists constututiobnal protections.; giving them trials in civil courts not military tribunals ; that the 9/11 terrorists be tried in the Fedaral Court in downtown Manhattan. He was the poster boy for Obama care .Isn’t all of that relevant to his ability ( or lack thereof) to run this great City?
How foolish can we be expected to be?
The best predictor of the future is the past. His past is so full of serious mistakes that it is frightening to think of him possessing any power at all. From his radicalism, to his absence of morals, to his partisan behavior that was opposite of his constituency, to his liberal idealogy that is conciliatory to terror, to his participation inthe rape of our health care system.
I hope he never succeeds in re-entering politics, and certainly nogt elected office. May his past haunt him everywhere he goes.
He showed bad judgement in the past
How can we trust his judgement in running the city?