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Former Congressman Anthony Weiner posted a thank you message to supporters on Facebook this afternoon that leaves the door open–ever so slightly–to another comeback run. “What’s next? I’ll keep you posted on my plans. But I hope we keep the band together,” he wrote in the message to supporters posted on his Facebook page. “(Who knows, maybe I have a third book of ideas in me!)” he added. Mr. Weiner, who lost his race for mayor this summer following revelations that he’d continued sexting with women long after he resigned from Congress, has kept largely out of the spotlight since...

Carlos Danger Got Two Votes For New York City Mayor National Journal Matt Berman 4 hours ago The official New York City Democratic mayoral primary vote count is in. And two people wrote in Anthony Weiner's alter-ego. According to the New York City Board of Elections, two write-in votes for mayor went to "Carlos Danger," the online name that Anthony Weiner used for explicitly sexual conversations with a woman after he had resigned from Congress. For some context: Bill Clinton also received two write-in votes for mayor. Former New York City Mayor David Dinkins received one vote. So did Noam...

Huma Abedin, a top staffer for Hillary Clinton and the wife of beleaguered and scandalized Anthony Weiner, was told to give her husband the boot — or leave the Clinton camp. “Huma has a choice to make,” an unnamed source said, to New York magazine. “Does she go with Anthony or does she go with Hillary?” This is the “biggest question among Hillary’s circle,” the magazine said, as the former first lady takes the stage as the Democratic Party’s most likely White House candidate for 2016. Ms. Abedin has been a close aide for years — but her husband’s sexting...

Anthony Weiner the Geraldo Rivero radio show: "There's no mistaking the New York media world had a field day with my name and that's part of the game. I had every tabloid in New York going bananas trying every day to derail me."

Anthony Weiner: 'I'm not an idiot' By: Tal Kopan September 20, 2013 01:09 PM EDT In his first national media interview since losing the New York City mayoral primary, former Rep. Anthony Weiner joined Geraldo Rivera for a nearly 20-minute appearance on Rivera’s radio show Friday, taking responsibility for his loss while also blaming the media for focusing on his sexting scandal. As he did on the trail, Weiner said he tried to run a campaign on the issues, but he admitted that revelations of further sexting after his resignation from Congress led to his loss. “If you’re breaking the...

Just hours after marking the disastrous conclusion of his mayoral campaign by flipping off news reporters, Anthony Weiner re-emerged in the spotlight with a smile on his face. The former candidate appeared relaxed and in good spirits when a photographer caught up with him outside his apartment building on Park Avenue in Manhattan Wednesday. The disgraced ex-congressman and sexting aficionado appeared to have rallied after his crushing defeat in the Democratic primaries, finishing his run with only 5 per cent.

<p>Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer won the Democratic primary for comptroller Tuesday night, ending disgraced ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s surprise bid to reclaim his political career.</p> <p>Stringer had argued that voters should spurn a politician who resigned amid a prostitution scandal. He offered himself as a veteran, untarnished public servant who knows how to work with others to make government work.</p>

New York (CNN) – The now-immortalized final moment of Anthony Weiner's failed New York mayoral campaign was the candidate's middle finger directed at a reporter curbside as his car drove away Tuesday night. CNN affiliate NY-1 captured Weiner flipping the bird on video as the candidate departed his primary election night party after delivering his concession speech, punctuating the end of his bizarre campaign and an odd evening.

Talk about going out with a bang. The last image New York City had of former Rep. Anthony Weiner as he drove from his primary election night party — a loser in the mayoral race — was his middle finger, held high in his passenger-side window. And if that wasn’t dramatic enough, making a dramatic entrance at Mr. Weiner’s campaign party was none other than his old sexting partner, Syndey Leathers, dressed in a skin-tight red dress, CNN reported. “I’m here to celebrate,” she said, CNN reported. “I think he needs some sex therapy.

America’s sexting fiend bade adieu to his disastrous New York City mayoral campaign in the classiest way possible: By raising his creepy middle finger to journalists as he drove off after his concession speech. Nice parting shot, Anthony Weiner. I'm sure your smart & classy wife is thrilled. (We have room & unlimited Hagen Daz here for you, Huma).— Kes Trester (@kestrester) September 11, 2013 Here’s the Weiner finger in all its, er, glory: A blurry image of #Weiner saying goodbye with his middle finger as he drives off from HQ tonight. cc: @BuzzFeedAndrew http://t.co/8fKnA5yLLz— Kate Rose (@KateRoseMe) September...

Welcome to our team coverage of Primary Day 2013! Daily News reporters, photographers and producers will be all over the city to track the candidates, check out polling sites -- and bring you the results. We're also looking for your input. Use the #NYC2013 hashtag and/or mention @nydailynews to send us your observations, pictures and videos of the campaigns, trouble/successes at the poll sites and anything else election-related you'd like to share. Stay with us all day. Our own Simone Weichselbaum reports on a Primary Day shortage of Spanish translators: There were not enough Spanish language translators at the polls...

Anthony Weiner, the People’s Choice Mr. Weiner, the former congressman, offers voters more than a decade of accomplishments in his fight for the city’s middle class and those struggling to make it. Blessed with a beautiful wife, natural charisma, the friendship of Bill and Hillary Clinton, and a sack full of policy ideas, Mr. Weiner is clearly the hardest candidate in the race for his opponents to beat off. The Daily Caller joins many across the city of New York in kneeling to endorse Mr. Weiner in Tuesday’s Democratic mayoral primary. Mr. Weiner is not without stiff competition. Mr. de...

(VIDEO-AT-LINK) New York City mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner will appear in a live interview with TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie Monday, just a day before New Yorkers head to the polls to cast their vote in the primaries. A taped pre-interview between Weiner and Guthrie appeared Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” and Weiner admitted to Guthrie that his campaign was a gamble. “From the moment go, I was waging this campaign on a bet,” he said. “And the bet was basically that I know that people have embarrassing things they would hear about me and did know about me and my...

I’m headed back east overland from my annual systems analysis and upgrade at Hill Air Force Base in Utah. Don’t worry - I have a special program that detects any “uninvited” malware that have been surreptitiously added  - like Gerard had installed by NSA operatives in Croatia last week. Butt don’t worry Gerard, they’re “not targeting conservative websites.”So, until I can get a real post together from the road here’s an instructional video that everybody can learn something from. I call it “don’t drink (note bottle on coffee table) and twerk.” Especially while doing a handstand; with lit candles in...

NEW YORK — Anthony Weiner got into a shouting match with a Jewish voter while campaigning for mayor on Wednesday after the man called him “disgusting” and said he should “stay out of the public eye” for the sexting scandal that has derailed his bid for City Hall. The confrontation happened as Weiner was campaigning in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn — a heavily Jewish neighborhood where he was also heckled in July after he admitted he had continued to engage in sexual chats with women he met online even after he was forced out of Congress for similar...

New Yorker gets busy with Weiner in a deli.

Anthony Weiner posed wistfully with his favorite friend for a picture at an Arthur Avenue Deli on Saturday--a giant sausage. The New York Daily News said Weiner pressed the meat at Mike’s Deli as he made a campaign stop. Owner David Greco said he was trying to make Weiner feel at home

CHAPIN, S.C. - This year's Chapin Labor Day Parade is hosting a few special guests. U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham is making an appearance at Monday's 34th annual event. Oscar Mayer says one of its Wienermobile is also taking place in the parade, which makes a one-mile route around Chapin's historic district. The day's activities include a talent contest and a gospel concert, as well as arts and crafts vendors and a food court. Chapin's parade often attracts a number of politicians, especially in election years when it marks the unofficial home stretch of the campaign.

Frustration with New York City’s unaffordability and its aggressive police tactics is elevating Bill de Blasio, once dismissed as a left-leaning long shot, into the lead of the Democratic mayoral primary field, according to a poll by The New York Times and Siena College. Christine C. Quinn, the longtime front-runner in the nomination contest, is now lagging far behind Mr. de Blasio and struggling to connect with members of her own party: forty-five percent of likely Democratic voters view her unfavorably. With 11 days remaining until the primary, the new survey shows a drastically reshaped race as a broad cross-section...

Anthony Weiner is having such a hard time generating support for his limp campaign that he has resorted to paying a rent-a-crowd firm to provide “supporters” for his events, The Post has learned. Some of the gung-ho Weiner crowds, including at the Aug. 11 Dominican Day Parade in Manhattan, were really actors who were paid $15 an hour by the California firm Crowds on Demand, according to a source with direct knowledge of the deal. The source said surrogates for Weiner approached the Santa Monica-based company days after Indiana-native Sydney Leathers came forward to say that Weiner had continued his...