“He was very personal with his own business,” she said, adding that within a few days, their exchanges had become sexual, and he was sending her explicit photos.
“I was like, Wow, that’s kind of out there, daredevil,” Ms. Broussard told Fox News’s “Hannity.”
Lisa Weiss, a 40-year-old blackjack dealer in Las Vegas, provided an account of her exchange with the congressman to RadarOnline.com. She said she first contacted the congressman, whom she called “the wonderful Anthony Weiner,” over Facebook in mid-August, to compliment his “Daily Show” appearance and to praise him for taking on Republicans in Congress. Just over a month later, according to transcripts of their conversations, their exchanges had turned raunchily sexual.
Ms. Broussard and Ms. Weiss did not return calls. But Ms. Cordova said that, for her, the last two weeks had brought an unwanted frenzy of media attention and, she said, misperceptions about her involvement with Mr. Weiner.
“I’ve had a really hard time trying to fight these implications that I’ve been involved in an inappropriate relationship with a married congressman,” she said.
She has struggled to stay out of the limelight, leaving college and completing class work by phone and e-mail.
Her interactions with the congressman since the controversy began have been spare and brief, she said. She gave Mr. Weiner a warning before she issued a statement to The Daily News when the underwear photo became public, and she heard from him the day of his confessional news conference: He sent her a text message apologizing moments before he walked onstage.
Ms. Cordova said she had mixed feelings about the congressman who propelled her, and himself, into a political maelstrom.
“I certainly don’t condone his behavior,” she said, “but I think that’s a personal matter between him and his family.”
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