{"id":4538,"date":"2009-03-06T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4538"},"modified":"2009-03-06T10:00:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T15:00:26","slug":"weiner_is_basically_an_idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/03\/weiner_is_basically_an_idiot.html","title":{"rendered":"Weiner Is Basically An Idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only is he carrying water for the modeling industry by outsourcing jobs to foreigners (what, US citizens aren&#8217;t weirdly lanky enough for you?) but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/03062009\/news\/regionalnews\/weiners_naughty_hottie_158268.htm\">he&#8217;s taking money from them as well<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>After he proposed to expand the visas available to foreign models so they can work in New York, Rep. Anthony Weiner&#8217;s mayoral campaign took contributions from some cat walkers from abroad. <\/p>\n<p>Problem is, the models aren&#8217;t allowed to donate because they&#8217;re not US citizens or permanent resi dents. <\/p>\n<p>The models involved have graced the pages of Sports Illustrated and posed for Victoria&#8217;s Se cret lingerie. One was deported for an air-rage incident in which she hit a flight attendant. <\/p>\n<p>Two of the models &#8212; Brazilian-born Thalita De Oliveira and Canadian Jessica Stam &#8212; are here on work visas, and do not have green cards or US citizenship, their agents said. De Oliveira gave Weiner&#8217;s campaign $500, and Stam donated $600, according to Campaign Finance Board records.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And yet, despite all the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/weiner_that_guy_in_politics_that_guy_on_the_field.html\">unrelenting<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/pcp_two_priests_wolfson_pumps_fist_as_he_gulps_down_two_tums_with_his_morning_orange_juice.html\">best efforts<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/07\/office-related_expenses_expected_to_balloon_under_possible_weiner_administration.html\">Wolfson dirt machine<\/a>, I will still vote for Weiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only is he carrying water for the modeling industry by outsourcing jobs to foreigners (what, US citizens aren&#8217;t weirdly lanky enough for you?) but he&#8217;s taking money from them as well: After he proposed to expand the visas available to foreign models so they can work in New York, Rep. Anthony Weiner&#8217;s mayoral campaign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538","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=4538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4539,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions\/4539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}