Anthony Weiner: la vie depuis la "démission"

Celui qu'on pouvait imaginer dans la course à la mairie de New York (2013) avant le scandale tente de reconstruire sa vie, mais ceux qui le connaissent se demandent quand il reviendra sous les projecteurs.

"ON Halloween night at the Sky Rink at Chelsea Piers, a small group of men huddled around a television set while changing into their hockey uniforms, strapping guards to their shins, securing elbow pads with Velcro straps.

Around 9:40 p.m., a trim man in a red sweatshirt, blue and white checkered shorts and a blue baseball cap arrived carrying a stick and bag over his right shoulder and wordlessly navigated his way through the maze of half-dressed players as he headed toward a private dressing area.

Roughly 20 minutes later, that man, the former Representative Anthony D. Weiner of New York, appeared again, this time in an orange jersey with a No. 1 on its back, an image of a jack-o’-lantern taped to the back of his mask. Followed by the other members of his team, the Falcons, he skated to one end of the ice, shielded from a lone spectator by a wall of Plexiglas.

Many things have changed in the five months since Mr. Weiner resigned his Congressional post after sending a sexually explicit photo of himself to a college student over Twitter. He and his wife, Huma Abedin, a deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, have confirmed to friends they are expecting their first child in late December. The couple has moved out of Mr. Weiner’s co-op in Forest Hills, Queens, in his old Congressional district, and into a Manhattan apartment. And all talk that Mr. Weiner might run for mayor of New York in 2013, an office that once seemed well within his grasp, has been silenced.

But if no one in this rink on this night eagerly takes cellphone photos of No. 1 as he glides by on the ice or sends out tweets that they have spotted the disgraced congressman, then Mr. Weiner will have successfully found two hours of relative privacy in an otherwise all-too-public post-scandal life.

Since that scandal, in an age when anyone with a smartphone can press a button and play gossip columnist, Mr. Weiner’s movements have been tracked as if he were Lindsay Lohan or Paris Hilton. Two weeks ago, he was seen with Ms. Abedin by two fellow diners at Hill Country, a barbecue restaurant on West 26th Street, both of whom later tweeted about it. Another poster found him working out at the New York Health & Racquet Club on Park Avenue South. Sidewalk spottings are tweeted with regularity and relish. “I feel this is Twitter appropriate ... just walked by Anthony Weiner,” Sarah Carey (@Rogue1283) wrote.

Strolling with his wife in the Montmartre district of Paris or shopping for groceries on Long Island have all been deemed newsworthy events by gossip sites like Gawker and Radar Online."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/fashion/anthony-d-weiner-hiding-in-plain-sight.html?_r=2&hp