{"id":12951,"date":"2025-06-25T07:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T07:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/12951\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T07:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T07:47:12","slug":"anthony-weiners-comeback-falling-short-in-bid-for-nyc-council-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/12951\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Weiner&#8217;s comeback falling short in bid for NYC council seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2017\/11\/06\/anthony-weiner-begins-21-month-prison-sentence-for-sexting-teen-girl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anthony Weiner\u2019s<\/a> political comeback seemed unlikely Tuesday night as the disgraced ex-congressman was running a distant fourth late Tuesday in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2024\/12\/10\/anthony-weiner-ex-congressman-jailed-in-sexting-scandal-files-to-run-for-nyc-city-council-seat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bid for New York City Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Weiner, whose serial sexting scandals upended his political career and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2017\/09\/25\/anthony-weiner-sentenced-to-21-months-in-prison-for-teen-sexting-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ultimately landed him in prison<\/a>, entered the race in December for an open Council seat in Manhattan\u2019s District 2 \u2014 from the East Village to Gramercy and Kips Bay-Murray Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Early results showed him trailing the front-runner, State Assemblyman Harvey Epstein, by 7,000<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>votes with nearly 90%<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>of ballots counted.<\/p>\n<p>Weiner hasn\u2019t held public office since 2011, when he was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/elections\/cast-scandal-plagued-candidates-tests-limits-new-york-city-voters-will-rcna210911\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> ousted from his congressional seat after accidentally tweeting a sexually explicit photo of himself.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two years later, subsequent sexts revealed his online pseudonym \u201cCarlos Danger\u201d and derailed his mayoral run in 2013. He was eventually caught sending inappropriate photos to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina and sentenced to almost two years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The race to succeed the term-limited councilmember in the district, Carlina Rivera, drew a competitive primary field that in addition to Epstein included Sarah Batchu, a de Blasio alum, and Andrea Gordillo, a local nonprofit leader and community board chair. Epstein had the backing of a lost list of elected officials, including Reps. Jerry Nadler and Dan Goldman.<\/p>\n<p>Epstein may have also benefited from a higher profile after he was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/03\/nyregion\/harvey-epstein-snl-skit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subject of a Saturday Night Live sketch<\/a> in November that spoofed his name for its similarities to two disgraced men: Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein. He is not related to either individual and importantly, has not been embroiled in any similar scandals.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: June 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Weiner\u2019s political comeback seemed unlikely Tuesday night as the disgraced ex-congressman was running a distant fourth late&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,8988,1370,405,403,8989,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,80,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-12951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-election","10":"tag-latest-headlines","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-politics","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-politics","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114742902655870337","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}