Quinn Says NYC Needs 'Adult Leadership'

In an appearance on the MSNBC commentary show Hardball Tuesday night, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn was asked, naturally, about Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer, multiple times. 

Host Chris Matthews also asked Quinn for her perspective not just as a candidate but as a woman in New York.

"I need a mayor who's responsible. I need a mayor who puts the interests of New Yorkers first, not their own self-aggrandizement first — and this is irresponsible behavior," Quinn said. "Having a mayor who's going to move this city forward, and a mayor who has a record of having done that, that's the kind of mayor I'm going to be and that's what women need ... That means adult leadership." 

During the interview, Quinn also called out her opponent — now running a distant fourth — for his "pattern of reckless behavior" again. 

Meanwhile, Weiner is doing everything he can to save his flagging campaign. He released a new video on his website, pledging to stay in the race.

"Quit isn't the way we roll in New York City," he says in the ad, a Vaseline-lensed paean to the hard-nosed New Yorker, in this case embodied by Weiner himself.  

The ad's release was overshadowed, however, by the most recent drama from his campaign: a story on Talking Points Memo published Tuesday night that featured a profanity-laden interview with Weiner's spokeswoman. 

The spokeswoman, Barbara Morgan, was reacting to a piece written by a former intern that hinted at a lot of dysfunction in the Weiner campaign. The kindest thing Morgan calls the intern in the piece is "slutbag." Seriously, company policy dictates we aren't allowed to write any of the other things Morgan says. Check it out here. 

The tirade caused a quick reaction on Twitter and Morgan later apologized, but not before the damage was done.