Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former pol who filed to run for a Lower East Side City Council seat last week, told amNewYork Metro he will not ask voters to support him “in spite” of his torrid history — but “in part because of it.”
Weiner appears to be re-entering the political fray, having filed a campaign committee with the city Campaign Finance Board on Friday, a little over a decade after his mayoral campaign imploded due to the second of two sexting scandals that torpedoed political career. He subsequently served 18 months in prison following his conviction for sending sexually explicit text messages to a minor.
