Time’s up, Weiner!
Mayoral hopeful Bill Thompson says it’s “way past time” for Anthony Weiner to get out of the race.
Thompson, who had previously said that it was Weiner’s decision, indicated today that he’s reached the tipping point.
“Anthony has become a distraction. I think he needs to drop out of this race,”
Thompson said on MSNBC. “He needs to make this about the people of the city of New York, not himself.”
The majority of the candidates in the mayor’s race have now called for Weiner to drop out.
On the show, Thompson, the former city comptroller, also continued to criticize the use of stop-and-frisk in it’s current form.
Thompson, the only black candidate in the race, had been heavily criticized by civil rights leaders for not coming out more strongly against the controversial NYPD practice.
Yesterday, he compared the NYPD’s use of stop-and-frisk to the racial profiling that led to the killing of Trayvon Martin in Florida.
On MSNBC, he said stop-and-frisk needs to be overhauled to get “rid of these quotas, performance goals that have been set.”