Customers taunt Lisa Weiss. “Talk dirty to me,” they joke. “We know you like it.” Colleagues refuse to speak with her. Strangers mock her in nasty online messages. 
 
 “Clearly she’s got mental issues,” declared the latest. 
 
 Anthony D. Weiner’s improbable campaign for mayor of New York City is a wager that voters have made peace with his lewd online behavior, a subject he has largely left behind as he roils the race with his aggressive debating style and his attention-getting policy proposals. 
 
 But for the women who were on the other end of Mr. Weiner’s sexually explicit conversations and photographs, his candidacy is an unwanted reminder of a scandal that has upended their lives in ways big and small, cutting short careers, disrupting educations and damaging reputations. 
 
 “I cannot tell you the devastation,” said Ms. Weiss, a 42-year-old blackjack dealer in Nevada who exchanged dozens of explicit messages with Mr. Weiner, then a congressman, in 2010 and 2011. 
 
 Ms. Weiss, a die-hard Democrat who once volunteered for Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign and was inspired by “Fahrenheit 9/11,” a film critique of the Bush administration, said she had reached out to Mr. Weiner after watching him joust with Republican rivals on cable news. They traded admiring messages on Facebook that, at his prompting, became intimate and raunchy, she said. 
 
 When their correspondence eventually became public, she said in an interview, conservative-minded colleagues sought to have her fired. The press lined up outside of her house and showed up at her casino, causing her to miss work for weeks. One night, she turned on the television to find the HBO host Bill Maher and the actress Jane Lynch performing a dramatic reading of the bawdy messages. Ms. Weiss, an avowed Maher fan, said she sat in her living room crying. While coping with the onslaught, she drank heavy amounts of alcohol, a habit that persists. 
 
 “I obsess about it,” she said, “every day.” 
 
 It is hard not to, she said: Mr. Weiner had faded from view after resigning from Congress, but now that he is in the mayoral race, her phone lights up with calls from reporters, online enemies are pouncing and fresh cruelties abound. 
 
 “We know what you want to do to him,” she recalled a man teasing her at work recently. 
 
 Little unites the five women whose online relationships with Mr. Weiner have become public. Some were self-confident political admirers; some were struggling and insecure, flattered by attention from a man in power. Some fled publicity after his downfall; some sought it out. (Ms. Weiss even appeared on “Inside Edition.”) Some of them still think he would be a good mayor; some are repelled by the concept. 
 
 But it is clear that all of them have been overwhelmed by the reaction to the imbroglio. 
 
 Gennette Cordova, a 21-year-old college student when she interacted with Mr. Weiner, is still trying to reclaim her identity, online and off. 
 
 In spring 2011, Mr. Weiner sent her an image of himself in boxers, with an obvious erection. Ms. Cordova, who has told The New York Times that she had chatted electronically with Mr. Weiner about politics and not about sex, was shocked by his unwanted advance. 
 
 When Mr. Weiner inadvertently posted the image publicly on Twitter, the Internet quickly rendered its own verdict, branding Ms. Cordova, incorrectly, she says, a participant in his online dalliances. The news media dug up Ms. Cordova’s old yearbooks and sifted through police records, publicizing her youthful indiscretions. The attention prompted her to withdraw from academic classes. She moved from Seattle to New York City, before Mr. Weiner’s decision to run for mayor, eager to leave a place where she had become known for her ties to the unfolding drama. 
 
 But, with Mr. Weiner back in the spotlight, the story has followed her across the country. A few weeks ago, a reporter showed up, unannounced, at her office, asking her about Mr. Weiner. 
 
 The repercussions were also painful for Traci Nobles, a onetime schoolteacher and a fitness instructor in Georgia, who says her roommate leaked her salacious messages with Mr. Weiner without her permission. As media inquiries poured in to her employer, Ms. Nobles was forced to quit her job at a Young Women’s Christian Organization because of the attention. 
 
 “Which sort of broke my heart,” she has said in an interview. Determined to explain her online relationship with Mr. Weiner and its impact on her life, Ms. Nobles is writing a book that has yet to be published. 
 
 The shared experience of the women involved has brought several of them together, for a kind of online group therapy. Ms. Weiss said she had discussed Mr. Weiner with both Ms. Nobles and Ms. Cordova. 
 
 “We all kind of commiserated,” Ms. Weiss said. “They were all very supportive.” 
 
 Asked about the fallout, Mr. Weiner said in a statement: “I am deeply sorry that my behavior caused so much upheaval in the lives of those who were unwittingly involved.” 
 
 On the campaign trail, though, he mixes contrition with wittiness. Not long ago he cracked a joke about his use of social media. “You know how much I trust Twitter,” he said at a candidate forum. 
 
 A number of the women remain angry with Mr. Weiner — arguing that, after taking advantage of his political devotees, he is now drawing them back into the spotlight. 
 
 Ginger Lee, a former star of adult films who communicated with Mr. Weiner online, has pleaded with him not to run for mayor. 
 
 “Every new headline and news story about him reminds reporters and bloggers that we exist, and the cycle starts all over,” she said in a statement released by her lawyer. “There will be a new flare-up of jokes, inaccurate statements and hurtful remarks.” 
 
 Ms. Weiss, who said she was a voluntary participant in explicit online chats with Mr. Weiner, said it was his position as a prominent lawmaker that allowed him to steer conversations about politics and policy into racy exchanges about sex. 
 
 “If he were a regular guy off the street talking to me like that,” she said, “I would have not done it.” 
 
 Ms. Weiss said her back-and-forth with Mr. Weiner was at times remarkably intimate and confessional. She recalled Mr. Weiner acknowledging loneliness when his wife, an aide to Hillary Rodham Clinton, traveled abroad. He once called Ms. Weiss and, after realizing that her 12-year-old niece was in the room, got on the phone with the girl to wish her good night. 
 
 “I was flattered,” she said of their chats. 
 
 Soon after Mr. Weiner confessed to his online indiscretions, Ms. Weiss’s own troubles began. She said a former boyfriend threatened to make public her messages with Mr. Weiner. So she acted first, granting access to her Facebook account to a reporter at RadarOnline.com, a decision that she says was a result of her naïveté about the news media, and that she now regrets. 
 
 “I thought I could control it,” she said. 
 
 She could not. Hundreds of the messages appeared on Web sites and in newspapers across the country. The coverage even reached her 98-year-old grandmother. “How do you explain that to everyone you know who reads that?” Ms. Weiss asked. “It was horrible.” 
 
 Her feelings about him now are complex, unsettled and somewhat counterintuitive. She acknowledges she brought on some of the damage herself, and even went on to his Facebook site to apologize. 
 
 But she is heartened by his campaign for mayor and rooting for him to win, despite her travails. 
 
 “I’d like him to say, ‘I am sorry I put you in that position,’” she said. 
 
 But she added: “If he lived here, I’d vote for him. He is such a big fighter for all of our causes.” 
 
 Ms. Nobles, the Georgia fitness instructor, said she, too, understood the appeal of Mr. Weiner’s candidacy, though she did not express outright support. “A perfect comeback story, ya know?” she wrote in an e-mail to The Times. 
 
 Back at the casino, Ms. Weiss says she is trying to laugh off the crude jokes that she hears. But the words sting. 
 
 “It gets old after two years,” she said. ||||| A female Las Vegas blackjack dealer has released to RadarOnline.com what appear to be Facebook chats she exchanged with embattled Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.). The messages, which came to light on Tuesday, are sexual in their nature and surface on the heels of the congressman's admission that he engaged in "inappropriate" conservations online with six women in recent years. 
 
 At a press conference on Monday, he said, "I have never met any of these women or had physical relations with them at any time." 
 
 RadarOnline.com relays the following conversation said to have taken place on Facebook between the congressman (bold text) and Weiss on September 28 of last year. 
 
 whoa. Super intense dream bout u just now. Woke me up. that is fu**ing awesome! don't know i you are still up…but we really need to discuss this further! that's the sweetest thing anyone has said to me in a while! damn! you either went back to sleep or to work saving the world..you see why i need your number when you leave me such good messages? nope, not sweet. crazy dirty i know…..i want all the dirty details! Baby, u have to post some fresh pictures. 
 
 According to the Las Vegas Review Journal: 
 
 Further information gleaned from her Facebook page and Twitter account, where she goes by @liberallisa, indicated Weiss is a native of Milwaukee who studied at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and was in the class of 1991. According to Radaronline, Weiss said she once worked as a Democratic campaign worker. A spokesman for the Nevada Democratic Party said today there is no record that she was a volunteer. 
 
 Weiss reportedly wrote in one message to Weiner: "i love that u r sooo hot and such a liberal." 
 
 Another woman who corresponded with Weiner has also come forward, writing a post on Andrew Breitbart's site BigGovernment.com and giving interviews to ABC News and Fox News. 
 
 Meagan Broussard, a 26-year-old single mother from Texas, says that she exchanged dozens of sexually charged photos, emails, and Facebook messages with Weiner over the course of a month. It began innocently enough, she says. “On April 20, I clicked on his Facebook page that I 'liked' a video of Rep. Weiner addressing a gathering of construction workers in Washington, DC,” she wrote on Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment.com site, where the photos of Weiner shirtless first appeared Monday, prompting Weiner's confession. 
 
 Meanwhile, the social media controversy has prompted top Republicans to call for Weiner's resignation. And for the most part, Democrats aren't coming to the New York lawmaker's defense. 
 
 Click here to read the messages in full relayed by RadarOnline.com.
– Anthony Weiner may be moving on from his 2011 sexting scandal—but for the five women on the other end of his raunchy messages and photos, it's not so easy, the New York Times reports. Lisa Weiss, 42, says customers at the casino where she works as a blackjack dealer don't make it easy to forget, saying things like, "Talk dirty to me," and, "We know what you want to do to him," while colleagues refuse to speak to her, and strangers send her disparaging remarks online. "Clearly she’s got mental issues," read a recent one. Gennette Cordova, who was 21 when she received a photo of Weiner's, er, weiner, moved across the country to get away from the scandal, but the press still tracked her down, showing up at her new workplace. And Ginger Lee says his new mayoral campaign is a constant reminder of what happened. "Every new headline and news story about him reminds reporters and bloggers that we exist, and the cycle starts all over," she says. "There will be a new flare-up of jokes, inaccurate statements and hurtful remarks." (Vaguely interesting side-note, Buzzfeed reported earlier today that this story was first published on June 10 then pulled offline. The Times then posted the story hours later, but says it wasn't influenced by the Buzzfeed piece.)