Anthony Weiner's already limp mayoral campaign suffered another huge blow yesterday, when his campaign manager abandoned the sinking ship. Danny Kedem quit as Weiner's campaign point man following a disastrous week on the trail, the embattled mayoral candidate confirmed this morning.
"Danny has left the campaign. He did a remarkable job," Weiner said.
After all, he covered for you...
"We have an excellent staff. More people have come on frankly. We've gotten more volunteers and more people coming over to help the campaign since the least several days since anytime since the campaign started."
Uh-huh. Sure.
Weiner stood firm despite his travails yesterday, spending much of the day in his apartment in bed shooting a campaign ad.
"I am running for mayor of the city of New York, and I plan on winning," Weiner told The Post in the afternoon -- though it was unclear if he knew at the time that his quarter-back was sacking himself in the wake of unabating blow-back from his extra-marital shenanigans last summer with sext kitten Sydney Leathers.
The Bible Belt bad girl spilled her guts to "Inside Edition" last week, exposing Weiner's love of phone sex and texting x-rated pictures of himself. Even though Leathers said she's "disgusted" by Weiner, pals of the pretty brunette said she doesn't mind attention from financially well-endowed men.
The rest of the story contains lurid details about Ms. Leathers, information that the dear readers of the Burg certainly don't need and will object to even reading about on social and moral grounds but we offer only for the sake of completeness...
Leathers was a gold-digging social climber who trolled Internet "sugar daddy" sites for wealthy men -- and was not above taking a few Benjamins just for "talking," according to her online chats and profiles, as well as school pals.
She went for Weiner, but her friends say cash was her real turn-on.
"She used sugardaddy.com to meet men," said a 27-year-old former girlfriend from Chicago who requested anonymity. "She met a few guys on that site when she was visiting me. She wants the lifestyle without working for it."
Leathers called herself a "22-year-old SugarBaby," according to her profile on the SugarDaddyForMe dating Web site.
Last summer, even as she was sexting the married and already scandal-scarred ex-congressman, Leathers used her friend's condo as her home base for dating wealthy Chicago men, according to her ex-pal, who said Leathers "was actively seeking men out to pay for her."
Then she'd boast about her conquests in texts, said the ex-pal, backing her story with a copy.
Leathers' texts and tweets also revealed that, during the period when she was exchanging nudie pics with Weiner, she was bragging smoking pot and taking Prozac, sleeping pills and Xanax.
"On Facebook, she posted something a few months ago. She said she had some big secret that could ruin someone's life," another high-school classmate, Ryan Hindliter, 23, told The Post. "I guess she might have been talking about Weiner. She always loved attention . . . She was always posting on Facebook and complimenting her own photos.
"I think this was all done to get fame and fortune, and the way she could do this was by throwing him under the bus before the election."
"She got exactly what she wanted -- 15 minutes of fame . . . like this is her big shot," he added.
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"we're running a Leaner Weiner Campaign!"
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Meaner Leaner Weiner fightin' machiner.
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Leathers' texts and tweets also revealed that, during the period when she was exchanging nudie pics with Weiner, she was bragging smoking pot and taking Pr(drug with oza in the middle)c, sleeping pills and X(drug with ana in the middle)x.
[BREITBART] San Diego Mayor Bob Filner's own political party called for the leader of the nation's eighth-largest city to resign as four more women identified themselves as targets of his sexual harassment, bringing to seven the number of women who have offered detailed accounts that include unwanted touching.
The mayor called a news conference for nnon Friday, a day after the latest accusers came forward, including a retired Navy rear admiral and a dean at San Diego State University.
Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman called Filner's alleged behavior "reprehensible and indefensible" and urged him to step down.
The San Diego County Democratic Party Central Committee voted 34-6 Thursday night to urge the city's first Democratic leader in 20 years to quit. The move came one week after the committee deadlocked 24-24 on the question, but that vote was before any woman had publicly identified themselves as a target.
"We are not here to determine guilt or innocence. However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... in the best interest of the city, the San Diego County Democratic Party has voted to ask Mayor Filner to step down, seek the personal help that he needs, and allow San Diego to move forward," said Francine Busby, the county party chairwoman.
Political consultant Laura Fink, who alleges that Filner patted her buttocks at a 2005 fundraiser when she was deputy campaign manager for the then-congressman, welcomed the party's position but expressed doubt that Filner would resign.
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"We are not here to determine guilt or innocence"
[10NEWS] In a news conference Friday, San Diego Mayor Bob Filner said he plans to take two weeks off for therapy.
"On August 5, I will be entering a counseling clinic to undergo two weeks of intensive therapy," Filner announced.
As soon as he made that remark, a sound system failure occurred and the mayor was unable to continue. He stood at the podium for a couple of minutes and waited to see if the problem could be resolved.
It could not, so Filner left. He returned a few minutes later and told those in attendance that he would restart his statement.
"I must take responsibility," the mayor said, calling his behavior inexcusable. "I apologize to the people of San Diego."
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Cramming for the final, Bob?
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Intensive Therapy, I guess that's what the kids are calling it these days.
Of course!
In the interview, which was posted online Saturday night,
When nobody was laying attention. That's almost as good as Friday after 5 p.m.
Obama questioned the project's economic benefits, saying "there is no evidence" to the Republican argument that "this would be a big jobs generator." Not nearly as many jobs as Solyandra!
"And my hope would be that any reporter who is looking at the facts would take the time to confirm that the most realistic estimates are this might create maybe 2,000 jobs during the construction of the pipeline -- which might take a year or two -- and then after that we're talking about somewhere between 50 and 100
He forgot all the support jobs. You know, restaurant and bar servers, gas stations, video rental places, UPS delivery guys -- all the things that an influx of workers with no local ties, plenty of money, and little free time need to make the long hours worth while. The same way it's calculated that every car manufacturing or steel mill union job adds another two or three jobs to the local economy.
[chuckles] jobs in a economy of 150 million working people," Obama added. Don't bother drilling that one well - it won't solve the energy crisis!
He also suggested that the pipeline would not lower gas prices in the U.S., and could actually increase them in the Midwest, an argument buttressed by recent fluctuations in the crude oil market.
The key isn't lowering prices, but 1) keeping them from rising as Chinese and Indian demand increase, and 2) keeping American money from flowing into the pockets of those oil producers who support jihadi groups and the fostering of jihad attitudes (have you seen the kind of religious textbooks the Saudis donate to every mosque willing to accept free stuff?).
"So what we also know is, is that that oil is going to be piped down to the Gulf to be sold on the world oil markets, so it does not bring down gas prices here in the United States," Obama said. "In fact, it might actually cause some gas prices in the Midwest to go up where currently they can't ship some of that oil to world markets." Keep sending your money to my Saudi buddies!
See periwinkle item 2, above.
TransCanada spokesman James Millar challenged the president's assessment in an e-mail to reporters Saturday night, saying both the construction and operating phase would create more jobs that Obama suggested.
He noted that with the southern leg nearly complete, "We will close the books in the coming months on the 4,000 Americans we put to work on the pipeline from Oklahoma to Texas. On this leg of the Keystone system alone we employed more Americans than the 2,000 figure the President pointed to."
Oh, snap!
"It is not logical to think a $7.6 billion dollar infrastructure project stretching across the entire breadth of the continental U.S. wouldn't employ thousands of workers both in the manufacturing sector and in constructing the pipeline," he added. But isn't it better to have the gubamint spend money on infrastructure? That way they can carve out pieces for their friends. And the disadvantaged. In his climate address last month Obama established a new litmus test for Keystone XL, saying, "Our national interest will be served only if this pipeline does not significantly exacerbate the climate problem." "The net effects of climate impact will be absolutely critical to determining whether this project will go forward," he added. "It is relevant." Then the rest of the pipeline is doomed.
Until the next president is sworn in, anyway. But that's only a bit more than 1,200 days or so -- President Obama mentioned the number in a recent speech, but as I didn't watch it, I don't know what he said.
Obama did raise the possibility in his New York Times interview that Canada "could potentially be doing more to mitigate carbon release" at the source of the pipeline's source, Alberta's oil sands, and such efforts could influence his administration's final decision. Maybe if you make some more investments to make the eco-freaks happy, I just might approve. Maybe.
"We haven't seen specific ideas or plans," the president added. "But all of that will go into the mix in terms of John Kerry's decision or recommendation on this issue." Great. The two smartest men in the room.
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Washington, DC is an area of concentrated parasites that are drinking up the life blood of this country. The parasites are the main problem, not Al and the Qaedas. We as a country are destroying ourselves.
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Since the State Department had said in March that the XL decision would be in June...it appears that the trial balloon has been launched by Mr. Soetoro on a quiet Saturday night in July ((while Antney Weiner is in the news) to show he has no idea what Jawn F'n Kerry will decide, but regardless, it will be for the good of the planet. (Not for the USA's stolen section of the globe.)
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Anthony Weiner's already limp mayoral campaign suffered another huge blow yesterday, when his campaign manager abandoned the sinking ship. Danny Kedem quit as Weiner's campaign point man following a disastrous week on the trail, the embattled mayoral candidate confirmed this morning.
[BREITBART] San Diego Mayor Bob Filner's own political party called for the leader of the nation's eighth-largest city to resign as four more women identified themselves as targets of his sexual harassment, bringing to seven the number of women who have offered detailed accounts that include unwanted touching.
"So what we also know is, is that that oil is going to be piped down to the Gulf to be sold on the world oil markets, so it does not bring down gas prices here in the United States," Obama said. "In fact, it might actually cause some gas prices in the Midwest to go up where currently they can't ship some of that oil to world markets."
In his climate address last month Obama established a new litmus test for Keystone XL, saying, "Our national interest will be served only if this pipeline does not significantly exacerbate the climate problem." "The net effects of climate impact will be absolutely critical to determining whether this project will go forward," he added. "It is relevant."
