Times, Post, and DN Newspaper Endorsements - NYers Didn't Care About Them
Blake Zeff:Politicians thought voters cared what the top papers thought. That may not be the case any longer. In New York, the city’s three largest papers – which each happen to also be among the nation’s top ten in circulation – suffered huge collective whiffs in recent weeks. For the office of mayor, the entire trifecta of the New York Times, Daily News, and Post, all endorsed Christine Quinn in
The Mayor's Race - Where It Stand In Early October
The last two polls taken in the mayor's race and released a few days after the primary election showed Bill de Blasio beating his GOP opponent Joe Lhota by 43 and 41 percentage points respectively.Expect the next slate of mayoral polls that come out to show a bit of a closer race.First, de Blasio has been taking a beating in the press ever since the NY Times Sandanista hit piece.De Blasio has had
UFT Caught Paying "Fake" Political Consultant Group
The geniuses at 52 Broadway can't do much of anything right:A "super PAC" formed by the powerful city teachers' union paid more than $370,000 to an apparently fictitious political consulting firm, which was actually the well-known New York firm the Advance Group, records and interviews show.The listing of the phony firm, "Strategic Consultants, Inc.," in campaign filings, obscu
Merryl Tisch Attacks Bill De Blasio Over Charter School Rent Plan
The NY Post reports that Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch criticized Democratic mayoral nominee Bill de Blasio for saying charter schools should pay rent:Chancellor Merryl Tisch said she’s concerned that forcing publicly-funded charter school to pay rent for sharing space in public school buildings, as the Democratic mayoral nominee has proposed, could stymie growth and innovation. “Anything that y
NYC Shifts From Plutocrats To Populists
12 yrs of trickle-down urbanism burst as the most left-labor candidates win Mayoral & PA nods. Big shift from plutocrat to populists.— Mark Green (@markjgreen) October 2, 2013De Blasio isn't mayor yet, Tish James isn't public advocate yet, Stringer isn't comptroller yet.There are still elections to be held in November as we learned in 2001, anything can happen between the primaries and Electio
NYC Shifts From Plutocrats To Populists
12 yrs of trickle-down urbanism burst as the most left-labor candidates win Mayoral & PA nods. Big shift from plutocrat to populists.— Mark Green (@markjgreen) October 2, 2013De Blasio isn't mayor yet, Tish James isn't public advocate yet, Stringer isn't comptroller yet.There are still elections to be held in November as we learned in 2001, anything can happen between the primaries and Electio
Cuomo To Appoint Pataki, McCall To "Tax Cut Task Force"
Anybody who thinks a Mayor de Blasio is getting a tax increase on rich people in Governor Andrew Cuomo's re-election year should take note of this news: ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo is turning to the Republican who defeated his father to come up with ways to cut taxes, the Daily News has learned. In a surprising announcement scheduled for Wednesday morning, Cuomo will appoint former Gov. George Pataki and
A Very Solid Win For Tish James Over Dan Squadron Last Night
Turnout was pretty good for a runoff election with nothing else at stake.Tish James got over 111,000 votes.Some pundits were saying turnout was going to be about 100,000 overall for the runoff.It was closer to 187,000And James won by 36,000 votes.A very solid win for James and a stinging defeat for Dan Squadron.Given what a scummy campaign he ran, it couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy.
Bill Gates Faces Shareholder Revolt At Microsoft
Apparently teachers aren't the only people who think Gates wields more power than one man should:these Three of the top 20 investors in Microsoft are lobbying the board to press for Bill Gates to step down as chairman of the software company he co-founded 38 years ago, according to people familiar with matter. The outgoing Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has been under pressure for years t
10-1-13 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Sleazy Dan Squadron Refuses To Take Responsibility For His Campaign's Anonymous RoboCall Attack Against Tish JamesDan Squadron is a sleazeball.It's one thing to attack your opponent and take responsibility for the attacks.Alas, Squadron doesn't have the courage or the moral core to do that - as Politicker reports here: State Senator Daniel Squadron would not deny tonight tha