Politico – by MACKENZIE WEINGER
Anthony Weiner is allegedly paying a firm to provide him with “supporters” at some events, a source has told The New York Post.
The New York mayoral candidate used the California firm Crowds on Demand to deliver paid actors to some events, the Post’s report Wednesday claims.
“The source said surrogates for Weiner approached the Santa Monica-based company days after Indiana native Sydney Leathers came forward to say that Weiner had continued his digital dalliances after resigning from Congress,” the paper reported.
The source said the Weiner campaign used the company “several times,” including at the Aug. 11 Dominican Day Parade in Manhattan, where it is alleged a number of actors were paid $15 an hour to make up a crowd of his supporters.
The actors were asked by the campaign to seem “like either supporters or people who met him and became supporters as a result of that encounter,” the source told the Post. “The people would initially be skeptical and then they ask him various questions but would appear then to be convinced by his spiel.”
Weiner spokeswoman Barbara Morgan told the Post, “We’ve never heard of this company and certainly never used them.”
“We are proud we’ve always had the biggest and most fired-up crowds,” she said, according to the Post. “That’s enthusiasm the other campaigns just can’t buy.”
This guy is just another KCID in politics oh and on twitter, facecrook among others.
“Weiner pays for supporters”
The story is about buying a Jock-Strap for his weenie… right?
$15 bucks an hour?
Where do I show up?
I am a little past even speculating that there might be an authentic campaign and an actual election of Any office.
However, IF I were naive enough to think there was…I would be inclined to vote for Weiner. Why? Because it seems that Somebody is going to great lengths to publicly smear him. He is being relentlessly attacked over actions which are no different or, in some cases, less offensive than Any other politician.
As for ‘hiring supporters,’ well, he is certainly Not the first and only…otherwise, the company would not exist. Right?
*wrinkling my brow* … No morals, no ethics, doesn’t even set a good example for young and old alike. Why is anyone, paid or not, supporting him? He’s really sick!
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