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Anthony, Freddy, C. Virginia and Mike are mama's boys and girls. As the campaign for mayor has heated up recently, the number of mentions of mom has shot up. Suffering women haven't been so hot since Hillary's "Living History".

Anthony Weiner is a particularly bad offender. If you don't know that his mom is a public school teacher called Fran, you just aren't paying attention. Visit his website to view an ad that shows her at work in the classroom.

Gifford Miller, on the other hand, has been mum about his mom, Lynden Miller, a longtime activist for parks and in Democratic party circles, and reputedly an important catalyst for his interst in politics.

Some recent examples:

That’s why I have a specific plan to provide a 10-percent tax cut for anyone making less than $150,000 a year, to cut waste and to give teachers, like my mother, who is a 31-year school teacher, a raise.
-Anthony Weiner, in the second Democratic debate, 8/21/05

Look, I grew up in a five-story walkup that didn't always have heat and hot water in the wintertime. My mother had to work from time to time two jobs just to be able to afford that.
-Fernando Ferrer, in the first Democratic debate, 8/17/05

Father, a laborer, died of cancer when I was 12; mother struggled to make sure that the youngest of five children were able to get a good education.
-C. Virginia Fields, in the first Democratic debate, 8/17/05

I come from a community like this one, a little bit more suburban in Medford, Massachusetts. My mother still lives in the house I grew up in.
-Mayor Bloomberg, on NPR, 5/10/05

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