The 23-year-old woman who was on the receiving end of Anthony Weiner's recently exposed illicit online chats has been identified as Sydney Elaine Leathers, according to Buzzfeed.
Most of what has been learned about Leathers was learned through her profiles on various forms of social media, all of which have been taken down. Leathers currently lives in Indiana and blogs for the website Indiana Progressive Liberals, according to the Daily Mail.
On her Twitter Leathers said that she was a field organizer for President Barack Obama's re-election bid as well as a student. Buzzfeed also reported that on a personal website that Leathers has since taken down she listed Anthony Weiner third in a list of heroes. Weiner is behind President Obama and Bill Maher but many spots ahead of Charlie Sheen on her list.
In June 2011 Leathers wrote about the scandal that brought down Weiner on her Facebook.
"Rep. Weiner can continue sending d**k pics every single day for the rest of his life as long as he continues to legislate like he does. I decided," the post said.
Buzzfeed was able to find out the information from a person who wished to remain anonymous but who had attended high school with Leathers. The source claims that she had seen the messages and that Leathers had confided in her that she "felt she was the important one" to Weiner, not his wife Huma Abedin.
Leathers graduated from Mt. Carmel High School in Mt. Carmel, Illinois in 2008. Many of her Facebook posts were political in nature, often taking shots at conservative politicians, according to the Daily Mail.
"Listening to Ann Coulter try to disprove evolution is like listening to a stripper prove she had a loving relationship with her father," Leathers posted in August 2011.
Weiner has been pressured to quit the New York City mayoral race because of the most recent revelations.
"The serially evasive Mr. Weiner should take his marital troubles and personal compulsions out of the public eye, away from the cameras, off the Web and out of the race for mayor of New York City," an editorial in the New York Times said.
"He is not fit to lead America's premier city," an editorial in the New York Daily News said. "Lacking the dignity and discipline that New York deserves in a mayor, Weiner must recognize that his demons have no place in City Hall."
