This just in from the muckrakers at Roll Call: Of the $15,000+ in outstanding parking and traffic fines accumulated by members of Congress, more than $2,000 was owed by NYC's Anthony Weiner alone, according to reporters' survey of license plates and records.
Weiner promptly paid the fines after Roll Call informed him of the findings. As the local political reporters have been quick to point out today, New York's contingent of parking scofflaw international diplomats may be feeling some schadenfreude at this moment. Weiner released a press release last year about their outstanding parking fines, saying, "It is insulting to all New Yorkers that countries like Yemen, Zimbabwe and Iran owe the City millions in unpaid parking tickets."
You may now proceed to write punchlines to the set-up, "What's the difference between Anthony Weiner and Iran's Ambassador to the United Nations?"
