I can’t help it. I’m enjoying this too much.
Anthony D. Weiner, the digital Lothario who called himself the “imperfect messenger” of the mayoral race, mustered a measly 5 percent of the Democratic primary vote. Eliot Spitzer, a former governor and noted patron of prostitutes, lost his comptroller bid to a journeyman politician whom he outspent two to one.
Hey, remember when folks were saying this was Weiner’s comeback?
“It turns out sexual misconduct is a fast track to a concession speech,” Sonia Ossorio, president of the local branch of the National Organization for Women, wrote in a triumphant note on Wednesday morning. “Voters will reject candidates who fail to treat women with respect and dignity.”
We can hope.
Other New Yorkers, who watched with dismay when Mark Sanford, the philandering former South Carolina governor, won a Congressional seat this year, seized on the primary results from Tuesday to indulge in a more time-honored city tradition: feeling superior to the rest of the country.
“time-honored city tradition”. There’s really nothing I can say here, is there?
Mr. Spitzer lost by a small margin, receiving nearly half of the votes cast, and about half of voters had a favorable impression of him, according to exit poll results. Mr. Weiner performed far worse, placing fifth in the primary, and about three of every four voters said they had an unfavorable view of him.
I wonder if this is a rejection of the nanny state exemplified by Bloomberg.
“I don’t think it’s necessarily that all of a sudden New Yorkers are these chaste moral beings that can’t deal with scandals,” Dr. Greer said. “The larger story is we were looking for a new day, a new day post-Bloomberg, post-drama, post-scandal and embarrassment for the city and state of New York.”
Note the paper of record’s use of “post-Bloomberg” there, too. Interesting.
(Edited to add: More on the “Bloomberg backlash” theme by way of Insta.)
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