NY Times: Bloomberg Didn't Ask Quinn To Overturn Term Limits, He Told Her To Do It
Front page story in the NY Times tonight that makes Christine Quinn seem powerless and inconsequential in relation to Mayor Bloomberg.The year it unfolded, 2008, brought two political shocks that altered the course of both of their careers. Mr. Bloomberg, after flirting with a presidential candidacy as an independent, realized that the White House would never be his and turned his gaze back to New
Dirty Tricks Campaign Waged Against De Blasio
Someone is sending out negative robocalls about de Blasio to members of the press without identifying who's behind the calls: just got a robocall about @NYDNGregSmith story: "bill de blasio sides with rich slumlords" #nyc2013— Azi Paybarah (@Azi) September 2, 2013And:@Azi @NYDNGregSmith Me too: no claim of credit, which violates rules, right?— Michael Barbaro (@mikiebarb) September 2, 2013Here:Gue
Before You Vote For Bill Thompson...
...see here and remember that Merryl Tisch is the co-chair of the Thompson campaign.You can also take a look at this, this, this and thisBill Thompson is saying other candidates are ethically-challenged and without vetted plans for their core programs.Actually those are the very real problems with Bill Thompson himself.
Christine Quinn Shows What Kind Of Mayor She Would Be
She'd be full of crap, of course!New York mayoral candidate Christine Quinn caught flack from her opponents this week when she appeared at a rally for fast-food workers just a day after accepting a large donation from fast-food mogul Dennis Riese.Riese’s corporation owns 75 francised restaurants in New York, including outposts of KFC, Pizza Hut, Tim Hortons, and T.G.I. Fridays. On Wednesday, Quinn
Andrew Cuomo Shuts Down Committee To Save New York PAC So That He Doesn't Have To Reveal His Donors
The NY Times reported yesterday that Andrew Cuomo's PAC, the Committee To Save New York, is shutting down:The Committee to Save New York, a coalition of business leaders that spent millions of dollars supporting the agenda of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and that seemed, overnight, to become the biggest lobbying force in Albany, said on Friday that it was shutting down. “From our perspective, we believe o
Daily News Editors - A Bloodthirsty Bunch Of War Criminals
There doesn't seem to be any bombing campaign, preemptive strike or out-and-out war the very serious men at Mort Zuckerman's Daily News don't like.Yesterday in an editorial on Syria, they wrote the following:The commander-in-chief of the United States of America is asking Congress for approval to punish the Syrian regime with the military might of the globe’s sole superpower. The Congress must aut
8-31-13 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Joe Lhota Shows Once Again Why He Will Not Be Mayor Of NYCThe Daily News has a story about two kittens on the B/Q train line who wandered onto the tracks and had to be saved.The subway lines were shut down in order to save the two male kittens.GOP mayoral candidate and former MTA chairman Joe Lhota said the subways should not have been shut down in order to save the kittens:
