Pressure mounts on Anthony Weiner to quit NYC mayoral race after sexting scandal Anthony Weiner resisted calls to withdraw from the New York City mayoral race Tuesday after finding himself caught in another sexting scandal similar to the one that ended his congressional career two years ago. Weiner admitted sending a woman sexually explicit photos and messages and acknowledged the activity took place as recently as last summer, more than a year after he resigned from the House in June 2011 for the same sort of behavior with at least a half-dozen women. With his wife, Huma Abedin, standing an arm's length away from him, Weiner told a hastily called news conference he would stay in the race despite the new onslaught of negative publicity. I want to bring my vision to the people of the city of New York. I hope they are willing to still continue to give me a second chance," Weiner said. Three of his rivals for mayor - Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and former City Councilman Sal Albanese, both Democrats, and billionaire John Catsimatidis, a Republican - also called on Weiner to quit the race. "Enough is enough," de Blasio said. The sideshows of this election have gotten in the way of the debate we should be having about the future of this city. Another mayoral hopeful, city Comptroller John Liu, stopped short of calling for Weiner to bow out, but suggested his "propensity for pornographic selfies is a valid issue for voters." The other leading Democratic candidates, including City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and former City Comptroller Bill Thompson, did not immediately comment. The reports claim that that the conversation between the pol and an unidentified 23-year-old woman took place on the social media website Formspring in August 2012, a year after he resigned from his post in Congress after being caught the first time - and nearly seven months after his first child with wife Abedin was born. The purported image was subsequently posted on TheDirty.com. Buzzfeed.com later reported that a source close to the matter said Weiner exchanged the explicit messages and photos with a woman named Sydney Elaine Leathers in late July of last year. The website characterized Leathers as a "progressive activist" from Indiana. Weiner released a written statement on Tuesday afternoon, which he read again at the press conference, admitting to additional raunchy conversations.