If Pelosi decides to retire, the San Francisco state senator could transfer his campaign warchest into a new committee to run in 2026.

Note: this is Scott Weiner, not Anthony Weiner.

Anthony Weiner resigned from Congress in June 2011 after it was revealed that he had sent sexually suggestive photos of himself to different women, including a minor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Weiner

  • Maeve@kbin.earth
    7·
    18 hours ago

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Wiener

    As co-chair of the California Legislative Jewish Caucus, Wiener has been instrumental in advancing several pieces of legislation aimed at promoting Holocaust education, as well as countering antisemitism and anti-Israel activism, especially on university campuses.[144][145] Wiener and CLJC worked to include “guardrails” in the ethnic studies legislation to “provide clear direction to local school districts and the California Department of Education that anti-Jewish and anti-Israel content cannot be included in the teaching of ethnic studies”.[146][147] Through CLJC, Wiener played an important role in securing $80 million from the state budget for various Jewish community priorities for 2024-2025,[148] as well as a similar amount in 2021.[149] Wiener and CLJC have also been criticized by Jewish Voice for Peace for “twist[ing] criticism [of Israel] into antisemitism”[150] and opposing a Gaza cease-fire resolution in Sacramento, while only stating that Israel should “be more surgical” in Gaza.[151] Wiener and other CLJC officials commended California State University Chancellor Mildred García for placing Sonoma State University President Mike Lee on leave after Lee announced support for an academic boycott of Israel in agreement with protesters and Students for Justice in Palestine,[152][153][154] which was seen as aligning with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and which Wiener described as “horrific and wrong”.[155][156][157]

    Please no.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
      3·
      16 hours ago

      Hard to say where he really sits without knowing more about him, but voice wise it seems he was calling for people to protest Israel’s actions while not performing them specifically at Jewish events. Which I get. Bringing the protests to specifically Jewish events in the U.S. isn’t protesting Israel, it draws the idea that if you are Jewish you are Israel, which is false. His comments that Palestinians should be able to live without fear I haven’t seen anyone mentioning and the fact that they are quoting him from 2021 saying Israel should be more surgical, 2 years before things escalated from the Oct 7th attack and prior to any ground invasion.

      A U.S. Senator speaking about Israel overreach in 2021 is actually surprising.