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green73
08-28-2013, 03:06 PM
Anthony Weiner is having such a hard time generating support for his limp campaign that he has resorted to paying a rent-a-crowd firm to provide “supporters” for his events, The Post has learned.

Some of the gung-ho Weiner crowds, including at the Aug. 11 Dominican Day Parade in Manhattan, were really actors who were paid $15 an hour by the California firm Crowds on Demand, according to a source with direct knowledge of the deal.

The source said surrogates for Weiner approached the Santa Monica-based company days after Indiana-native Sydney Leathers came forward to say that Weiner had continued his digital dalliances after resigning from Congress.

The campaign asked the company to have actors seem “like either supporters or people who met him and became supporters as a result of that encounter,” the source said.

“The people would initially be skeptical and then they ask him various questions but would appear then to be convinced by his spiel,” according to the source, who said the campaign used Crowds on Demand “several times.”

Initially, Weiner’s associates asked the company to try and confront hecklers, but the company — fearing liability if there was violence — refused, the source said.

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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/weiner_bogus_bulge_Cemys6X2JStMk6khHwXm0O

eduardo89
08-28-2013, 03:09 PM
He doesn't want to get stood up at events, so he pays people to come.

ravedown
08-28-2013, 03:10 PM
good to see this company has stayed in business since the romney campaign days.

angelatc
08-28-2013, 03:11 PM
I half expected it to be a story about him paying porn actors to show up.

DamianTV
08-28-2013, 03:43 PM
I half expected it to be a story about him paying porn actors to show up.

That would require that Fluffers also attend. We know he needs help getting IT up. It meaning approval ratings, or the obvious jokes...

Henry Rogue
08-28-2013, 04:32 PM
He's still campaigning? He must have one heck of a load in his campaign coffers, if he isn't giving up yet.

Elias Graves
08-28-2013, 05:20 PM
This isn't about him being mayor. It's about him finishing a campaign as part of his political rehab.
Next time he runs, this will all be old news like Chappaquiddick...

Nirvikalpa
08-28-2013, 05:54 PM
$15/hr? Good money for a lot of people in the metro area...

heavenlyboy34
08-28-2013, 06:13 PM
He doesn't want to get stood up at events, so he pays people to come.
Not everyone can come for money. Performance anxiety strikes sometimes.

green73
08-28-2013, 06:18 PM
Not everyone can come for money. Performance anxiety strikes sometimes.

Do you ever experience that at self-critical moments?

heavenlyboy34
08-28-2013, 06:29 PM
Do you ever experience that at self-critical moments?
Nope. I can come and go at will nowadays with no stress. :cool: /grownup

ZENemy
08-28-2013, 06:31 PM
Moves desperate moves from the struggling empire.

nobody's_hero
08-29-2013, 06:33 AM
I just wonder how many other politicians do this

KEEF
08-29-2013, 06:40 AM
I just wonder how many other politicians do this Probably most all of them, except for the ones that TPTB don't want and won't let win... AKA Ron Paul.