Politics & Government

Rant by Anthony Weiner's Spokeswoman Aimed at Middletown Native

Former intern Olivia Nuzzi said that staffers only worked for Anthony Weiner to get to Hillary Clinton.

Anthony Weiner’s communications director trashed a former campaign intern Tuesday, according to the NY Daily News.

Barbara Morgan, formerly from Toms River, thought she was off the record during a profane rant against Olivia Nuzzi, a native of Middletown, the NY Daily News reported.

The outburst was in response to Nuzzi’s column in the NY Daily News, which said that staffers only worked for Weiner in hopes of future employment with Hillary Clinton, the NY Daily News said. 

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Morgan issued an apology Tuesday and Nuzzi accepted via Twitter.

Nuzzi previously wrote for Art Gallagher's popular Monmouth County political blog, More Monmouth Musings.

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