Ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner Files Bid For NYC Council Seat

NY1 reports:

Former Congressman Anthony Weiner is starting to plan a political comeback, filing paperwork with the city’s Campaign Finance Board to run for a City Council seat on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

Weiner went to federal prison in connection to a sexting scandal involving a minor, but that’s not derailing him from considering a return to the political arena.

“I mean, I’m thinking about it. I’m wrestling with it — I don’t know,” Weiner said during a November episode on the 77 WABC radio program he hosts. But on Tuesday, he made it semi-official, filing to run for a City Council seat in Manhattan.

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Former Congressman Anthony Weiner is starting to plan a political comeback, filing paperwork with the city’s Campaign Finance Board to run for a City Council seat on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
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