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With Weiner Withdrawn, Time To Pick The Best Weiner Tabloid Covers!
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Garth Johnston
Published Jun 16, 2011
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Anthony Weiner withdrew from Congress today, but the sexless Weinergate scandal isn't quite petered out. Andrew Cuomo still needs to set a special election to replace the randy Representative, police just finished investigating a—wait for it—a suspicious package at Weiner's DC office (turned out to be nothing) and the Post, clearly sad to have to tuck their dick jokes back in, is letting its readers vote on their best Weiner covers.
The Governor's office today released a short statement (he's got other things to focus on than a sext scandal) regrading the 9th District seat now vacated by Weiner: "The Governor will take the appropriate steps to ensure New Yorkers in the 9th district are fairly represented in Congress."
Meanwhile, Weiner's former constituents—who must be sick of being asked what they think after 20 days of scrutiny—had mixed emotions to his resignation. "At this point in time, I think he had no choice but to resign," one told the News. But another told them "I don't think he should resign. We shouldn't expect more from politicians than we do of ourselves. He's human, too. This has nothing to do with the job that he's doing."
Yet another offered a similar verdict to the Times: “He did nothing to hurt the public interest. To face his wife, he paid already. I feel sorry for him.”
But Weiner's coworkers in Congress just seemed relieved the whole things is wrapping up. For instance New York Representative Steve Israel said in a a statement that Weiner’s decision was “right for him and his family, our party and our country, because we have serious work to do in Congress.”
What Weiner will do next is still an open question, but many speculate that after some time out of the spotlight he'll land on his feet with a media deal à la Spitzer.
Finally, the Post has made a lovely gallery of all their Weiner covers and are letting their readers vote on the best one. We're torn between today's "Battle of the Bulge" and June 10th's "Weiner: I'll Stick It Out." But "Obama Beats Weiner" wasn't bad either (though it reminded us of this tacky 2007 Post headline). What will the Post do without Weiner? If Murdoch's mad headline writing fiends are lucky, maybe that long-rumored Boehner bombshell will drop this summer.
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