ALBANY — A Weiner slap led to a Twitter war Thursday.
Former Rep. Anthony Weiner started the battle Thursday with a hit at Gov. Cuomo, who last month ordered the subway system closed in advance of a blizzard that never hit New York City.
“Sunday’s gonna be cold. Governor Cuomo will soon be closing the subway,” Weiner tweeted sarcastically Thursday afternoon.
Cuomo spokesman Richard Azzopardi quickly tweeted back to the former congressman who quit after a sexting scandal in 2011.
Weiner lost a bid for the Democratic nomination for mayor in 2013 after a second sexting scandal when texts sent to a woman under the alias “Carlos Danger” emerged.
“Yes, it’s going to be cold. A good reason to keep your pants on,” Azzopardi tweeted.
Weiner didn’t hold back from hitting back, tweeting, “I have to be careful responding. I don’t want to be accused of witness tampering” — a no-holds-barred reference to U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s warning to Cuomo to be careful about interfering with witnesses in the prosecutor’s Albany corruption probe.
Weiner may still be smarting from the unsolicited smackdown he got from Cuomo in a New Yorker magazine profile this week.
In the piece, Cuomo said any attempt to tie him to the recent corruption arrest of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is the equivalent of blaming Weiner’s woes on the President.
“If Anthony Weiner shows his private parts, do you blame Obama?” Cuomo said.
It wasn’t the first time the governor has had an unkind word to say about the former Queens congressman.
When Weiner was making his mayoral bid, Cuomo took a rare shot at a candidate during a campaign, telling the Syracuse Post-Standard: “Shame on us” if Weiner wins.
