Anthony Weiner: No plans to run for NYC mayor
Former congressman Anthony Weiner, who resigned in
disgrace last year, said he has no plans at this time to run for mayor of New
York City.
"I can't say absolutely that I will never run for
public office again, but I'm very happy in my present life. I'm not doing
anything to plan a campaign," Weiner told People magazine. The story is in
the issue that goes on sale Friday.
It was a little more than year ago that the Democrat
stepped down from the U.S. House seat he had held since 1999. Weiner admitted
to sending sexually explicit messages and photos of himself to women via the
Internet and Facebook.
The New York Times reported this week that Weiner
"wants to return to politics," according to friends and former staff
members. He had been eyeing a run for New York mayor in 2013, when Michael
Bloomberg leaves office, before the sexting scandal broke.
When The Wall Street Journal asked him whether he was
thinking of running for mayor, Weiner responded with a variation of the Bryce
Harper line: "It's a clown story, bro."
In the People interview, Weiner said he has
"enormous regrets" about what he put his wife, Huma Abedin, and his
constituents through last year. But he said he his focused on his now
6-month-old son, Jordan.
Abedin, who is deputy chief of staff to Secretary of
State Hillary Rodham Clinton, told the magazine that she's "proud" to
be married to Weiner.
"My husband did a really stupid thing. It was an
extremely painful time," Abedin said. "But there was love and a
commitment to this marriage ... It took a lot of work to get where we are
today, but I want people to know we're a normal family."
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