Schoolteacher Ambushes Weiner: No ‘Moral Authority’ To Lead When ‘Standard Of Conduct So Much Lower’

Anthony Weiner hopped the ferry to Staten Island on Friday, hoping to use the battered borough’s post-Sandy reconstruction efforts to distract from the newest sexting scandal battering his mayoral campaign.

But schoolteacher Peg Brunda had other plans when she challenged the ex-congressman to explain how he could run an ethical administration given his incessant transgressions.

“Had I conducted myself in the manner in which you conducted yourself, my job would have been gone,” said Brunda, a teacher of three decades. “I don’t quite understand how you would feel you would have the moral authority as the head administrator in this city to oversee employees when your standard of conduct is so much lower than the standard of conduct that’s expected of us.”

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“Are you not voting for me?” Weiner asked.

“I would not vote for you, sir,” Brunda said.

“I certainly understand that,” Weiner said. “But I want to let other people make the decision for themselves.”

When pressed, Weiner conceded that he would hire a police commissioner or school chancellor with similar sexting problems to his own.

“People have their personal lives,” Weiner said. “If it is unconnected to their professional duties, of course, I’m not going to judge someone’s personal life.”

Watch the clip below, via CBS News:

[h/t CBS News]

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