New York has the Democrat perverts...Bloomburg the queer, Tony Weiner the wagger.

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By MICHAEL BARBARO
Anthony D. Weiner, once a rising star of New York politics whose
career cratered over revelations of his sexually explicit life
online, announced an improbable bid on Wednesday for the job he
has long coveted: mayor.

After a rocky re-emergence into public life over the past few
weeks, marked by circuslike scenes of tabloid photographers
chasing him onto the subway, Mr. Weiner opted to declare his
candidacy from the safe remove of a video.

His candidacy, fueled by a $5 million war chest and a
determination to resurrect his public standing, promises to
immediately disrupt a wide open Democratic primary race
populated by several lesser-known candidates.

But it is beset by heavy baggage, starting with the deep
ambivalence of voters to whom Mr. Weiner lied two years ago,
when he indignantly denied that he had sent a Internet image of
himself in his underwear to a college student in Seattle.

Mr. Weiner, 48, eventually admitted to a secret practice of
befriending young female admirers over the Internet and engaging
in intimate sexual banter with them, sometimes sending them lewd
self portraits taken with his BlackBerry.

Since he resigned from Congress under intense pressure from
Democratic Party leaders in the summer of 2011, Mr. Weiner has
opened a strategic consulting firm that allowed him to cash in
on his Washington connections.

But he has remained on the sidelines as the city grappled with
contentious debates over a living wage requirement, mandatory
paid stick leave for workers and a ban on large sugary drinks,
inviting inevitable questions about why he is returning to
politics now.

His nascent campaign has struggled to attract marquee political
strategists, as it has faced the rejection of many potential
recruits and been forced to turn to a 30-year-old with little
experience in New York as a campaign manager.

But Mr. Weiner�s raw talents, as a tireless political tactician
and verbal jouster, are hard to discount, making him a
formidable opponent even in light of his troubles.

His political philosophy has always been something of an anomaly
in the city�s Democratic world. He has called for a single-payer
health care system and pushed for hybrid taxis even as he has
called for tax cuts and voted for the war in Iraq.

Friends and former aides expect him to stake out similar
territory in his run for mayor, casting himself as a centrist
champion of the city�s vanishing middle class.

This time around, he will be missing a longtime calling card:
his reputation as an in-the-trenches champion of the boroughs
outside of Manhattan.

That identity propelled him to a six-term Congressional career
representing Brooklyn and Queens.

Last year, though, Mr. Weiner moved from Forest Hills, Queens,
to Gramercy Park in Manhattan, where he lives in a four-bedroom
luxury apartment with his wife, Huma Abedin, a former close
adviser to Hillary Rodham Clinton, and his young son, Jordan.

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