Voters slam Weiner, Spitzer comebacks

By Associated Press

Published September 11, 2013 4:00am ET

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Voters slam Weiner, Spitzer comebacks — Sydney Leathers, who engaged in online sex chats with Democratic mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner last summer, tries to enter his election gathering place at Connolly's Pub in midtown Tuesday, September 10, 2013 in New York. Weiner surprisingly entered the race in May after being in political exile since resigning from Congress in 2011 upon admitting to lewd online exchanges with women who were not his wife. (AP Photo/Jin Lee) | Jin Lee

NEW YORK (AP) — It was perhaps a fitting end to an Anthony Weiner mayoral run that couldn’t seem to escape a sexting scandal.

Outside a “victory” party where supporters mourned a disappointing fifth-place finish in the Democratic primary, cameras were crowded around Sydney Leathers, the 23-year-old woman whose sexting with the former congressman brought his once-high-flying campaign to a screeching halt.

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