Woman in Anthony Weiner Scandal Finally Speaks Gennette Cordova finally details her story

Gennette Cordova, the Seattle woman on the receiving end of Anthony Weiner’s crotch Twitpic, finally details her story in an interview with the Seattle Times – saying she didn’t even believe the photo was real. The article is posted below: It was nearly 9 p.m. on a Friday when Cordova, preparing to head out for the night with a friend, logged onto Twitter and discovered that Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., had sent her a suggestive photo of himself in gray boxer briefs.

“It didn’t make any sense,” Cordova, a 21-year-old Seattle woman and student at Whatcom Community College, said in her first extensive interview since Weiner confessed in a news conference Monday to sending her the photo. “I figured it must have been a fake.”

Cordova’s experience with Weiner appears to fit a pattern: In rapid and reckless fashion, he sought to transform informal online conversations about politics and policy into s*xually charged exchanges, often laced with racy language and explicit images. Cordova, who had text-messaged with Weiner about their shared concern over his conservative critics, said she had never sent him anything provocative. Asked if she was taken aback by Weiner’s decision to send the photo, she responded, “Oh gosh, yes.”

House leaders on Wednesday began a concerted effort to persuade Weiner to step down, worried that the sensational coverage of his online s*xual liaisons with at least six women over a three-year period had become a distraction and was subjecting the Democratic Party to ridicule.

The women who have acknowledged encountering Weiner on social media and then having personal communications with him varied in age, race and location, and even in their willingness to engage the congressman in s*xual discourse. In each case, however, Weiner’s online conduct in many ways mirrored that of his offline life — aggressive, blunt, feisty and willing to push boundaries with an apparent disregard for possible consequences.

The women came to his attention after he had come to theirs. They usually were admirers of his scrappy, progressive politics and youthful energy, and either posted an enthusiastic comment on his Facebook page or sent him an admiring Twitter message. Cordova said she first was impressed with Weiner after seeing him take on Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., a tea-party favorite, on Fox News’ “Hannity.” Cordova said she and her boyfriend thought the congressman was smart and funny, and they both started following him on Twitter.

“I tweeted words of support for him as a politician, and I retweeted his tweets often beginning around early, mid-April,” Cordova said in a series of conversations by phone and email over the past two days. She added that, in mid-April, “he thanked me for the support” using a direct message — a private note sent via Twitter — and he then signed up as a follower on Twitter, meaning he easily could read all of her posts. Cordova said that, after Weiner began following her on Twitter, critics of the congressman started sending her harassing messages. She said she then began communicating, always electronically, with the congressman about their shared annoyance with those critics.

Cordova shared a portion of her communications with Weiner with The New York Times, but she would not make all of her interaction with him available for review.“I have not sent him any suggestive messages,” Cordova said.She said she was, however, surprised by his informal tone. “He was just very casual,” she said. “It wasn’t like talking to a U.S. congressman.” A spokeswoman for Weiner .....

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