Probably emboldened by Sanford winning.
Weiner to seek erection, will announce bid for mayorBy DAVID SEIFMAN
Last Updated: 10:24 AM, May 15, 2013
Posted: 1:45 AM, May 15, 2013
Anthony Weiner’s bid to rise from the political dead is ready to begin in earnest — the disgraced former congressman will announce he is running for mayor as early as next week, according to sources.
“He’s definitely running,” one Weiner ally told The Post.
After weeks of hinting at a run, Weiner has taken a major step toward firing up his campaign by hiring a manager to guide his mayoral bid, according to a report.
Weiner has tapped political adviser Danny Kedem, who recently worked on a Staten Island congressional race, to run his impending mayoral campaign, according to a report on Politico.com.
Sources expect Weiner will make the announcement in the next 10 days, sometime before Memorial Day on May 27 — which happens to be the second anniversary of the day he sent out on Twitter a picture of his manhood that embarrassed him into resigning from Congress.
Some think he may already have waited too long.
He needs to start getting signatures to obtain ballot status, as petitioning for all elective offices begins June 4.
Democratic mayoral debates and forums have already taken place, with Weiner on the sidelines.
A Quinnipiac poll conducted in April had Weiner at second place, trailing only front-runner Christine Quinn.
Weiner was at 15 percent in the poll, while Quinn had 28 percent. Bill de Blasio was right behind Weiner, with 11 percent, followed by Bill Thompson at 10 percent and John Liu at 9.
Weiner would join the crowded field of Democrats currently vying to succeed Mayor Bloomberg in November’s election.
His tweeting fiasco began when he sent what was supposed to be private message with a crotch shot to a 21-year-old woman.
That was soon followed by an image of his bare chest,
Weiner, married to Hillary Rodham Clinton aide Huma Abedin, at first insisted that his Twitter account had been hacked. But, under pressure — and in the face of mounting evidence that he was lying — he finally came clean.
Just as it seemed he was kaput, he launched a resurrection tour last month, with a series of interviews meant to burnish his image.
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