When Representative Weiner (a Democrat from New York State) resigned from Congress in 2011, it was because of the revelation that he had Tweeted nude photos of his private parts to a young woman who was following him on Twitter. Of course, at that time we did not find out the truth that she was just one of many women who were receiving these types of messages. In fact, initially he spent weeks lying about the photos and insisting that his Twitter account had been hacked. He repeatedly claimed that he did not send the embarrassing Tweets at all ... until experts were able to prove that his account had not been hacked. Now we are discovering that the Tweet that caused him to resign was just the tip of the iceberg.
This week Mr. Weiner revealed that he actually had sexually explicit online relationships, via text, Twitter and Facebook, with approximately six to ten women while he served in Congress. The reason he gave for the range in numbers is because he said he couldn't "tell you absolutely what someone else is going to consider appropriate or not." In other words, this married husband and father sent explicit messages to about ten women ... he just doesn't know if all of the women thought that the messages were inappropriate.
What about the voters? Do they think it is appropriate for a married man and elected official to send nude photos and sexually explicit messages to women other than his wife?
Surprisingly, despite the fact that he was sexting with other women during the time that he was dating his wife, Huma Abedin, as well as during their engagement, while she was pregnant, and after she gave birth to their son, Huma vigorously defended him during a recent press conference. Does she really believe that his behavior is acceptable and that voters should ignore it?
In past posts, I have always expressed the opinion that a man who cannot be trusted by his wife probably should not be trusted by voters. I certainly wouldn't want one of my daughters to be in a position where she was working alone with him ... or receiving messages from him!
Unfortunately, despite the fallout from his first batch of Twitter messages, and a sincere interview in People Magazine with his wife Huma Abedin, in which he proclaimed that he was a changed man, apparently Anthony Weiner had not actually changed at all. In fact, Mr. Weiner recently admitted that after his resignation he continued to regularly engage in sexually explicit online relationships with young women that he did not know!!
In interviews over the past few days, Mr. Weiner confessed that he continued sending messages to at least three more women after his resignation and People Magazine interview. In order to disguise his identity, he used the online pseudonym of Carlos Danger. Among the messages that he sent these women were more nude photos of his private parts, as well as embarrassingly explicit descriptions of his sexual desires. Some of these photos and messages were released by a woman named Sydney Leathers, a 23 year old from from Indiana who says she had an online relationship with him for six months in 2012 ... a claim he does not deny.
So far, most of the other women involved have not come forward. Perhaps they are just waiting until their books are ready! I wouldn't be surprise to see additional revelations in the coming months. Hopefully, the voters of New York City will be wise enough to not election him to office as their next city mayor.
Sources for Sexting Details:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/anthony-weiner-details-how-many-women-hes-had-online-relationships-with/2013/07/25/c185ad5a-f572-11e2-9434-60440856fadf_story.html
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/07/26/anthony-weiner-huma-abedin-what-normal-about-this-relationship/
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Official Congressional photo of Anthony Weiner courtesy of www.en.wikipedia.org/commons
