Gennette Nicole Cordova, who received the obscene tweet from Rep. Weiner's… (DAILY NEWS STAFF)
BY SARA KIESLER IN SEATTLE AND ALISON GENDAR IN WASHINGTON, DC
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Sunday, May 29, 2011
A college student who received an obscene photo from Rep. Anthony Weiner's Twitter account says she's never met the married Queens politico - and backed his contention they're both victims of online pranksters.
"I have never met Congressman Weiner, though I am a fan," Gennette Cordova, 21, of Seattle, Wash., told The Daily News Sunday in an interview. "I've never been to New York or to DC."
She also issued a lengthy statement, complaining about how she's been characterized on blogs and other web sites.
"I have seen myself labeled as the 'Femme Fatale of Weinergate,' 'Anthony Weiner's 21-year-old coed mistress' and 'the self-proclaimed girlfriend of Anthony Weiner.' ... All of this is so outlandish that I don't know whether to be pissed off or amused, quite frankly," she wrote.
READ CORDOVA'S FULL STATEMENT TO THE DAILY NEWS HERE.
The online drama began Friday when a lewd photo appeared in Weiner's Twitter stream addressed to Cordova but visible to all 40,000 of his Twitter followers.
The photo was a crotch shot of a man in form-fitting briefs that left little to the imagination.
It was quickly deleted and Weiner, who was in the middle of Twittering about hockey, said he'd been hacked.
"More Weiner Jokes for all my guests," he Tweeted.
Weiner stepped out on Sunday with his wife Huma Abedin amid controversy over a picture posted from his Twitter account. (Andrew Savulich/News)
Sunday, Weiner's spokesman Dave Arnold said: "This is intended to be a distraction and we're not going to let it become one. Anthony's accounts were obviously hacked. He doesn't know the person named by the hacker and we will be consulting on what steps to take next."
Outside his Forest Hills home, Weiner, declined further comment as he went for a walk with his wife, Huma Abedin, a former top Senate aide to Hillary Clinton. It was unclear whether he or his staff contacted authorities.
Some right-wing bloggers insist it must be proof that Weiner was having an affair with Cordova, who had once jokingly Tweeted: "I wonder what my boyfriend @RepWeiner is up to."
Weiner, a darling of liberal Democrats, has become a big target for conservative voices.
News of the lewd photo was first reported by Andrew Breitbart's biggovernment.com, which said the image was posted to Weiner's account with yfrog, an on-line image-sharing site.
