Amidst yet another scandal involving an exchange of sexually explicit photos, New York mayoral candidate and disgraced politican Anthony Weiner called a press conference to address the latest scandal. Weiner issued a statement earlier today noting,

“I said that other texts and photos were likely to come out, and today they have. As I have said in the past, these things that I did were wrong and hurtful to my wife and caused us to go through challenges in our marriage that extended past my resignation from Congress. While some things that have been posted today are true and some are not, there is no question that what I did was wrong. This behavior is behind me. I’ve apologized to Huma and am grateful that she has worked through these issues with me and for her forgiveness. I want to again say that I am very sorry to anyone who was on the receiving end of these messages and the disruption that this has caused. As my wife and I have said, we are focused on moving forward.”

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As a U.S Congressman in 2011, Weiner sent a link to a photo on yfrog of his junk concealed by boxer briefs to a 21-year-old female college student from Seattle, Washington, who was “following” his posts on the social media website. Though the link was quickly removed from Weiner’s Twitter account, screen shots of Weiner’s original message and of the photo were captured by a user identified as “Dan Wolfe” on Twitter and subsequently sent to conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart who published them on his BigGovernment website the following day.

Interestingly enough, some sources are pegging Weiner as the leading pollster in the race, one also being run by Eliot Spitzer who resigned as New York Governor in 2008 after being linked to a prostitution ring scandal.

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