Key Anthony Weiner staffer resigns: Is his time almost up?

The campaign manager for Anthony Weiner resigned this weekend as calls for the New York mayoral candidate to leave the race mounted. But Weiner might have strong reasons for staying in.

By Mark Sappenfield,?Staff writer / July 28, 2013

Democratic candidate for New York City mayor Anthony Weiner speaks to members of Brownsville Community Baptist Church in the Brooklyn borough of New York Sunday.

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Whatever one may think about Anthony Weiner, he has no small amount of pluck.

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That was true when he was a member of Congress, where he sometimes spoke from the House floor in a verbal conflagration on the order of Sherman blazing through Atlanta. It was true when he entered the race for New York mayor two years after resigning from Congress in disgrace ? the titters of disbelief still audible in the press gallery. And it remains true today, when he has not pointedly not listened to his former leader in the House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who captured the feeling of many Americans in telling Mr. Weiner to "get a clue" and drop out of the mayoral race.

At this point, Weiner's refusal to give up his bid to be mayor of New York seems to have more than a whiff of sheer stubbornness. This, after all, is the man who continued the very behavior that forced him to resign from Congress ? trading raunchy and racy online posts with single women ? for more than a year after he left Washington. And that revelation, uncovered Tuesday, is what has brought us all to this moment of midsummer political tragicomedy.

Yet why should Weiner abandon his bid to become the next mayor of New York, really?

From the outside, there is no shortage of reasons. Bringing one of America's great cities into disrepute by association is only the most obvious. Weiner's campaign manager, Danny Kadem, apparently felt enough was enough, resigning his post this weekend.

But his resignation could point to some of the very reasons why Weiner has been so determined to continue his campaign ? and why it's not unthinkable that he could still be in the race when the election is held on Nov. 5.

Surmising why Mr. Kadem might have quit, Fordham University political scientist Joseph Mercurio suggested to Bloomberg news: "I suspect there's been a tremendous pressure on Kedem from labor campaigns and others who oppose Weiner, and I'm sure Kedem's interested in remaining in this business, and he can't take the pressure and he's leaving."

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