Christine Quinn: Weiner Is Not Qualified To Be Mayor

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The now leading Democratic candidate for New York City mayor, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, said Anthony Weiner is not qualified to be mayor and news of his latest sexual scandal is a distraction from the real issues of the race. 

The latest numbers show Weiner, the former frontrunner, plummeting in the polls, giving Quinn the edge.

“Has he disqualified himself? Yes. He disqualified himself, but not just because of these scandals,” Quinn said on “Meet the Press” Sunday. “”He didn’t have the qualifications when he was in Congress. He was in Congress for 12 years, he passed one bill.”

“When you see scandal after scandal about this, what it does is create even more distrust and maybe even disgust in government,” Quinn added. “We really need to move beyond that.”

 

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