Anthony Weiner Tore Apart the Lives of These Five Women
Anthony Weiner is mounting a political comeback-gunning for New York mayor, focusing on the issues, even cracking jokes about Twitter. But his tented erection pics are still haunting the four women implicated in the scandal that brought down his career.
By Michelle Ruiz
Talking to The New York Times, Weiner's women say his unwanted advances cost them their jobs, their reputations, even their sobriety-and his re-election bid is only dragging up the past and making their lives worse.
Gennette Cordova, the 21-year-old college student who was the recipient of Weiner's most famous weiner shot-the grey boxer brief crotch shot-says her online chats with the then-Congressman were strictly politics, until Weiner sent her the unsolicited penis pic (the worst kind of penis pic, if you ask us.) She moved from Seattle to New York to escape scrutiny in her hometown, but now that Weiner is running again, reporters are badgering her at her office.
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Lisa Weiss, now a 45-year-old blackjack dealer in Nevada and a former Bill Clinton campaign volunteer, first reached out to Weiner after seeing him on the talk show circuit. They ended up exchanging dozens of explicit messages. Even two years later, she still gets harassed at work, with customers quipping, "Talk dirty to me," and "We know you like it." She's resorted to drinking heavily to cope. Another Weiner chat partner, former teacher and fitness instructor Traci Nobles, was forced to quit her job amid Weinergate. (She's now writing a book...)
Former porn star and Weiner sexter Ginger Lee said she has pleaded with him not to run for mayor, saying, "Every new headline and news story about him reminds reporters and bloggers that we exist, and the cycle starts all over... there will be a new flare-up of jokes, inaccurate statements and hurtful remarks."
The irony of course, is that they're complaining about the press tearing apart their lives...in article in the press. And if we think these four women's lives were traumatized by Weinergate-imagine the impact on a fifth-his wife Huma Abedin! Needless to say: If Weiner is being forgiven and allowed to move on with his life, the women he swapped dirty talk with should be allowed the same.
Read more at Cosmopolitan.com!
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