Is Weiner planning to try and win back his old Congressional seat?

On May 7,  2012, a new Statement of Organization was filed by Friends of Weiner which changed the committee's email address to Weiner's former campaign finance director Dolev Azaria. Azaria was paid nearly $8,000 a month for the last six months of 2011 after Rep. Weiner resigned, as I exclusively reported in February, but hasn't been listed on any of the previous 2012 filings.

The old address for Friends of Weiner was also changed from 1 ASCAN AVENUE #31 FOREST HILLS, NY 11375, as the 2007 Statement of Organization indicated, to 254 PARK AVE SOUTH SUITE 12A NEW YORK, NY 10010.

Since Weiner still has close to $5,000,000 in his war chest, and has until June to decide if he wants to run for NYC mayor, this might just be some sort of temporary stop-gap.  It seems extremely unlikely that Weiner would fight for his old seat, just a year after the Weinergate scandal.





According to Melissadata, a filing appears to indicate that the "Candidate is the challenger in the current election cycle" for NY-9 in 2012.




 I've contacted Friends of Weiner and will update this post if I receive a response.