Thread: WeinerGate: Dem Weiner Fights to Control Lewd Photo Scandal

Dem Weiner Fights to Control Lewd Photo Scandal



Tuesday, 31 May 2011 12:15 PM
By Martin Gould

Rising Democratic star Rep. Anthony Weiner has lawyered up in a desperate bid to quash rumors after a risqué picture was sent from his Twitter account to a 21-year-old co-ed on the other side of the country.

The newly married New York congressman insists that his account was hacked into. Genette Cordova, the woman who received the shot, backs his story, but that is doing little to halt the flood of questions about the affair.

Chief among them is just who was the model for the picture of the bulging pair of gray underpants, and exactly what is Weiner’s relationship with Cordova, who lives outside Seattle, nearly 2,500 miles from his congressional district.

Cordova says someone using the same Twitter account has harassed her for several months. “I assumed that the Tweet and the picture were their latest attempts at defaming the congressman and harassing his supporters,â€

[b]“Twitter is a kind of verbalization of people yelling at their television sets or gnashing their teeth at the newspaper,â€