"At some point, the full story of Anthony Weiner and his sexual relationships and texting habits will finally be told," the Times Editorial Board said of the former congressman. "In the meantime, the serially evasive Mr. Weiner should take his marital troubles and personal compulsions out of the public eye, away from cameras, off the Web and out of the race for mayor of New York City."
The commentary came one day after Weiner, a Democrat who resigned from Congress in June 2011 after admitting he texted lewd photos of himself to women he did not know, was forced to revisit the issue of his sexual misconduct.
"A Web site called The Dirty had another woman's story, another round of sex texts, and another picture of Mr. Weiner's penis," noted the Times.
"The startling news was that this new episode apparently took place last summer, only a few months before Mr. Weiner was to begin another run at public office," the editorial continued. "The marital trauma that Mr. Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin, had said was behind them was not as far behind as we thought."
Weiner has insisted that he intends to continue his campaign, despite calls by opponents and others to abandon his mayoral bid
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