Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, who resigned over a scandal in 2011, says he’s weighing a run for New York City mayor this year.
The Democrat tells New York Times Magazine “it’s now or maybe never for me.” But he acknowledges that it’s a long shot because some people “just don’t have room for a second narrative about me.”
He says he doesn’t know when he’ll decide on entering the race, and concedes he’d be an underdog.
But Weiner may not be ready to pull the trigger on a campaign just yet. He tells the magazine, “I don’t have this burning, overriding desire to go out and run for office. It’s not the single animating force in my life as it was for quite some time. But I do recognize, to some degree, it’s now or maybe never for me, in terms of running for something.”
Weiner represented Queens and Brooklyn for more than a decade before resigning amid the scandal over his inappropriate online behavior.
The interview was posted online Wednesday and is scheduled to be published on Sunday.
(AP)
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Compared to Malcolm Smith, and those other clowns/public officials/party leaders that have been in the papers lately, maybe Weiner is the best that New York can do. And he’s not hiding anything … oh, wait, maybe that’s his problem.