Some of ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner’s top campaign contributors are willing to forgive — and give again — should he run for mayor just two years after his sexting scandal.
“I’d definitely support him. He’d be a strong candidate for mayor,” said Paul Trane, owner of the Massachusetts-based Telecom Insight Group, who already raised $19,600 for a potential Weiner mayoral campaign.
“Anthony made a mistake and has lived with the humiliation. He should be given a second chance. He has the right to take a shot. He has some fervent supporters.”
Other donors weren’t as eager to comment on Weiner’s second coming.
And the head of the city’s top business-advocacy group noted that Weiner has not put on a full-court press to raise funds from the corporate world but said he would “get an audience if he asked for it.”
“I am not aware of any conversations with the business community, which suggests to me that he is not too far along in committing to enter the race,” said Kathryn Wylde, CEO of the Partnership for New York City.
Should he decide to run, Weiner must meet some key deadlines.
To get matching funds, he’d need to alert the city Campaign Finance Board of his candidacy by June 10.
And he’d have to collect at least 3,750 voter signatures — and, likely, far more to survive challenges — on petitions for the Board of Elections to appear on the ballot for any citywide office by mid-July.
Independent Party mayoral candidate Adolfo Carrión, meanwhile, yesterday slammed Weiner as unfit for City Hall.
“It’s not good for him or the city for him to be running for mayor,” the former Bronx borough president told The Post’s editorial board. “He has a long way to go after having lied to the press, to his family, to the public, to his colleagues in Congress — bald-faced lies on camera.”