By Mark Esposito, Weekend Contributor
Disgraced Ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner is giving back in a big way — or so he claims. Fresh off a recent loss in New York City’s municipal elections, Weiner held the lead among Democratic mayoral hopefuls until disturbing texts with a decidedly lewd overtone were released by a 22-year-old woman he met online. Other women came forward to sink the Weiner warship but Weiner vowed to remain in politics and be active in the community despite another public humiliation for him and his wife, Huma Abedin, a former Hillary Clinton aide.
And alas, now he’s got an idea to rehabilitate his reputation and Rockaway, Queens, a neighborhood that was devastated by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Beset by rebuilding delays and high unemployment, Weiner proposes a new restaurant with a social conscience in the still reeling community. The Rockaway Restoration Kitchen is months away from it’s first fryer drop but Weiner plans to open the business and employ persons with substance abuse and criminal issues. He also wants to help the diet of the neighborhood, he claims. Rockaway, says Weiner, is a “food desert” dominated by fast food chains and pizzerias. “We want to do something sustainable for the community, while also providing healthy, local food options for the Rockaway population.”
Weiner plans a thirteen week training period that will provide life skills as well as restaurant skills. He’s hoping to make The Rockaway Restoration Kitchen a launch pad for at-risk folks who can obtain other similar jobs once they complete the training program. One mistake shouldn’t be cause for unmitigated disaster Weiner reasons, and he should know.
Pipe dream? Maybe. A PR tour de force with another run at political office being Objective No. 1? Almost surely. A recipe for success? A true quest for forgiveness from the women in his life?
Well, as any restaurant owner can tell you, the proof is in the pudding.
What do you think:
Source: CNN
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I never made any sexually disgusting comments about Chris Christie. What did I write about him that compares to what you wrote about Hillary Clinton? I challenge you produce evidence that I did.
Still trying to stir the pot? Some things never change.
The Dick
Some dicks cry Basta!
Smokes weed like a Rasta.
Gossips like an old hag
Calls Hillary a fag.
What a guy, that prince among men
Lies, smears, hates and snoops
When in too deep, emails his troops.
@annie
What makes you think I am the intimidatable sort of person???? I am a gun toting gal from Texas and I say what I think. I don’t feel the need to write a book about what comes out of (or goes into) Jennifer Flowers ‘ mouth.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Some people like to spread rumors. They say they have solid evidence to back up the rumors that they spread–but never produce the evidence.
There’s a new show coming on this fall called Wicked Tuna..
And Elaine, this is the US, say whatever you like about any First Lady. I said what I believe to be true. But, you can say whatever you want. And, this “First Lady” was Secretary of State and is all but an official candidate for President. You were relentless on Christie. I never whined. Liberals whine incessantly. “Politics ain’t beanbag.”
That was the guy you helped make 42nd President who said it. And, he said it about his own wife! But, nice try. How about a poem?
Elaine, I would’ve thought that a least Squeeky who is very pro Hillary, would’ve come out and said something in her defense.
Are you intimidated by your friends here Squeekers? Or are you OK with such attacks on Hillary?
Elaine – so Hlllary being a lesbian is sexually disgusting? Sounds typically progressive to me.
Interesting! It appears that the conservative women who have commented on this thread don’t have a problem with the crude and disgusting comment that a male made about a former first lady. I wonder how they’d react if a liberal/Democrat made that kind of remark about Laura Bush…or Barbara Bush…or Nancy Reagan.
Interesting! It appears that the conservative women who have commented on this thread don’t have a problem with the crude and disgusting comment that a male made about a former first lady. I wonder how they’d react if a liberal/Democrat made that kind of remark about Laura Bush…or Barbara Bush…or Nancy Reagan.
And Squeeky, when Hillary announces her run for the Presidency, we are going to hear more such attacks on her from the likes of your friends, you know this right? You still think you can convince Spinelli to vote for her as you said a few weeks ago? Or are you seeing a different reality here?
Squeekers, I can pretty much agree with you on that. Do you think Hillary is an accomplice on the “War on Women” as conservatives suggest? Is she somehow less of a credible person to be possibly be the first woman President? Has she ruined her credibility?
Squeeky, You have a good read on Bubba. We disagree on Hillary. Free thinkers NEVER agree on everything. That’s one of the many perks of not being a mindless cultist.
@annie
Bill is a lying POS but he is also somebody who didn ‘t come up in that Harvard Yale family northeastern U.S. BS. Sooo, before he was an ahole, he had some experience as a regular human being. All in all he was a good president although he did get snookered a few times by the Wall Street crowd.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
“Less of a woman” in the way of being a decent woman President, not less, meaning ‘mannish’. Would she be a bad President to women because she helped Bill in his “War on women” as conservatives like to say. Did Bill engage on a War on women?
@nick
He had an incentive to lie, too. Ala “my wife is a lesbian and I need some loving.’ BUT, I don’t see him needing to lie to Jennifer to get him some. BUT her lying so as not to appear as big a ho to everybody is within “the way.”
Squeeky Fromm
Zen Reporter
Hey Squeeky, what do you think about Bill Clinton? Just curious. Also do you think Hillary is less of a woman ( and would possibly make a bad President) because stays with him?
on 1, August 11, 2014 at 5:09 pmKaren S
“What I have seen is a discussion about the possibility that Hillary is gay as an explanation for why she stays with Bill, who I consider to be a pig to women.”
Squeeky, What about Bubba’s veracity? When I worked for the prosecutors office I learned the victim and witnesses were often the same ilk as the defendant. Bubba didn’t associate w/ the pillars of society. But, he does now.
That could be very true Squeekers, I don’t know either. I guess you aren’t dissuaded from voting for Hillary because of the smearing of her, as we see here by your buddy Spinelli.
@annie
I am here. I don ‘t believe Jennifer Flower ‘s mouth is a prayer book. She is nothing but a tramp who was trying to sleep her way to the top. Sooo, she could put any words she wants to in Bill ‘s mouth and unless you ‘re there, you have no way to know.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter