Posted on 06/03/2011 6:07:27 AM PDT by doug from upland
By JENNIFER EPSTEIN | 6/3/11 7:02 AM EDT
The young woman who was sent a lewd photo from the Twitter account of Rep. Anthony Weiner says she doesn’t think the New York Democrat was hacked, but that he may have been trying to send it to a porn star with a similar name.
Gennette Cordova, a 21-year-old college student from Seattle, posed for a photo shoot with The New York Post on Thursday and shared her side of the story with the paper.
“Her name is Ginger — it makes sense he might have mixed us up,” Cordova said, referring to Ginger Lee, a stripper and porn star who follows Weiner on Twitter.
In March, Lee tweeted about wanting “sexual relations” with Weiner and, less than two weeks later, she wrote that she’d received a private direct message from the congressman. Weiner had also followed Lee on Twitter but said he stopped doing so when he found out who she was.
Weiner said in an interview with CNN earlier this week that he thinks his note to Lee was a “fairly pro forma thing that goes out” to people who follow him on Twitter.
Weiner, who has said he asked a lawyer to look into the hacking but hasn’t reported it to the authorities, further fanned the controversy when he said earlier this week that the picture might be of him.
Though some reports have suggested otherwise, Cordova, who issued a lengthy statement over the weekend, said she’s never supported Weiner’s claim that his account was hacked.
“Everyone’s [writing] that I backed [Weiner’s] contention that there was a hacking,” she told the Post. “But I never mentioned anything about a hacking.”
Cordova said she’s become “collateral damage” in the Weiner scandal and “just want[s] this to be over” so that she can move on with her life. She wants to work as a restaurant hostess or law firm assistant this summer while on vacation from school.
Cordova’s been overwhelmed with interview requests and “people are saying, ‘You need a book deal’” but she said she’s not interested. “What for? This isn’t my place, I just want to get it over with.”
“I’ve just been thinking about how I can get my privacy back,” she added.
Meanwhile, Weiner’s Washington office staff on Thursday called Capitol Police after being approached by a reporter from New York’s CBS affiliate who said she wanted Weiner “to say something to his constituents, the people who have to vote for him.”
I don’t think this theory helps him much!
Way to go, Gennette. My guess is that Weiner Man will no longer be following you.
Do the right thing Tony...step down.
To be filed under:
With friends like these who needs enemies
Anyone have extra butter...I need some for my popcorn.................
Resign? Oh no.
NEVER. What would the late night comics do?
Question Was it a male or female pornstar
“She wants to work as a restaurant hostess or law firm assistant this summer while on vacation from school”....
Hmmm...hostess or law firm? What interesting choices as the plot now thickens...
I thought it got sent to 45,000 of his followers
So Ginger Lee lives in Seattle? I think the Seattle shout out blows that theory away.
I don’t think Huma is gonna like this explanation any better.
True, that would be the end of their Weiner roast.
I’m thinking that a porn star would be uniquely qualified to be unimpressed by Weiner’s weiner.
'Porn stars,' just like sodomites and democrats, get a pass.
I wonder if there is an annual award similar to the Darwin award for stupid acts resulting in political death?
If not, there should be.... and Weiner should be the first.
AND... What better name than the “Weiner Award”?
The punchlines and double entendres keep writing themselves.
Or the “You think we’re laughing with you but we’re really laughing at you” Award....
Weiner taking to a microphone to make the claim that “I thought a Pornstar was a mini-van made by Chrysler” in 3.....2......1......
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