The rodent is usually seen in front of business that hire nonunion workers, but when it appeared by Weiner’s crib, we were naturally concerned: Rodents and Weiners don’t go together.
A group of education and union activists inflated the rodent to protest a Weiner proposal to eliminate the parent coordinator position Mayor Bloomberg created in city schools to serve as parent contacts.
The protesters say they’re so determined to block Weiner from City Hall that they’ve launched a “Stop Weiner” campaign to rival a group that’s targeting City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.
“If people think Stop Chris Quinn is bad, wait ‘til they get to meet us,” said Mona Davids, who works for the union that represents parent coordinators.
Along with the giant rat, the few dozen protesters at Weiner’s Park Avenue South building carried signs with slogans like “We Don’t Want a Weiner For Mayor” and “Don’t Let The Sexting Perv be Mayor.”
Weiner said he didn’t mind the rat, but he lamented what he sees as the overuse of the iconic protest symbol.
