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NY Times: Bill Thompson Is A Crook
Devastating NY Times article out tonight on Bill Thompson.Here's the beginning:As a first-time candidate for New York City comptroller, William C. Thompson Jr. was feted at a downtown fund-raiser in 2001 by two luminaries of the black business world: the hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and Mr. Simmons’s money manager, a veteran Wall Street financier who made his fortune promoting hybrid securities k

Bill Thompson Gets Desperate
This really smacks of desperation:It’s better to tell the truth than to blie. Thus argued Bill Thompson’s mayoral campaign this afternoon as they pushed forward with what they clearly feel is a winning issue against front-runner Bill de Blasio: undisclosed meeting with lobbyists. Mr. Thompson’s camp hit Mr. de Blasio on the issue yesterday, but came back today armed with a new website–www.BilldeBl

Something To Keep In Mind About Bill De Blasio
Just in case you think Bill de Blasio is a true "liberal", the Daily Beast runs with the following:In 2004 de Blasio was a paid adviser to John Edwards’s presidential campaign. And in this year’s mayoral race, his rhetoric about “a tale of two cities”—a line he has used to critique growing income inequality—has echoed Edwards’s rhetoric from 2004 about the “two Americas.” Yet while serving on the

Daily News Bases Anti-De Blasio Story On One Anonymous Facebook Commenter
Those fine journalists at the Daily News are at it again.Dante de Blasio’s Afro — which has been the subject of fascination and admiration — became an issue after his dad’s campaign made it the focus of a new social media blitz, urging supporters to tweet the hashtag #GoWithTheFro, to build momentum for the Democrat.Scoffers accused the lanky liberal of exploiting Dante’s ’do.Critics chided the el

Three Polls Show De Blasio In The Lead
First Quinnipiac had de Blasio at 36%, Quinn 21%, Thompson 20%.Now the Times/Siena poll has de Blasio at 32%, Thompson at 18%, Quinn at 17%And an AM New York/News 12 poll finds de Blaiso leading with 29%, Thompson in second at 24%, Quinn in third with 17%.With 11 days to go, here is how the AM New York/News 12 pollster sees the race:"It's a momentum game," pollster Mike Berland said. "Clearly, de


8-29-13 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Anybody But Quinn People Give Christine Quinn A Nice Parting GiftFrom Politicker:Advocates hoping to swing the election by urging voters to elect “Anybody but Quinn” gathered across the street from the closed St. Vincent’s Hospital this evening for a get-out-the-vote rally they billed as an early “retirement party” for City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.The event–which inc