{"id":389,"date":"2005-09-16T10:32:35","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T18:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/09\/wiener_weiner_mayor_wiener.html"},"modified":"2005-09-16T10:32:35","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T18:32:35","slug":"wiener_weiner_m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/09\/wiener_weiner_m.html","title":{"rendered":"Wiener Weiner Mayor, Wiener!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Post interviews a bunch of Weiner backers who go there<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Voters in Anthony Weiner’s congressional district yesterday roasted the dropout Democrat over his decision to quit the mayoral race rather than take on Fernando Ferrer in a runoff.<\/p>\n

“Get back in there,” fumed Johanna Cassidy, a bartender at the Austin Ale House in Kew Gardens. “He can’t just sit down and give up. Stop acting like a wiener!”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course Weiner’s supporters were just being principled:<\/p>\n

Cassidy of Rego Park said she backed Weiner because he looked like a “regular guy” and because she wanted somebody who would take on Mayor Bloomberg “so I could smoke and have a drink at the same time.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And let us not forget what’s most fun about this story, the Post-friendly adolescent humor:<\/p>\n

The outrage prompted a stream of not-so-good-natured wisecracks that played off the 41-year-old congressman’s name.<\/p>\n

“It was wrong! His name should be Oscar Meyer,” said Lou Valentine, 67, a Democrat.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Weiner maintained that it would be unwise and wasteful to go through with the runoff:<\/p>\n

Weiner defended his decision to withdraw even though city elections officials say they are legally obligated to stage a runoff in two weeks, costing taxpayers as much as $12 million.<\/p>\n

“It’s preposterous,” Weiner said of a runoff. “If the Board of Elections has to go through the kabuki dance on an election that cost us all $10 million that would be a shame.”<\/p>\n

Weiner said his lawyers are busy trying to help avoid “a wasteful expenditure of money.”<\/p>\n

“It’s not going to happen. Even my mother is not going to vote for me if there is a runoff,” quipped Weiner, who insisted he made the decision to quit on his own.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Post interviews a bunch of Weiner backers who go there: Voters in Anthony Weiner’s congressional district yesterday roasted the dropout Democrat over his decision to quit the mayoral race rather than take on Fernando Ferrer in a runoff. “Get back in there,” fumed Johanna Cassidy, a bartender at the Austin Ale House in Kew […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}