How'd That Ballot Line Thing Work Out For Students First?
The corporate education reform group Students First had their own ballot line this year - Joe Lhota was on it.How many votes did Lhota get on the Students First line?765 votes.Not exactly a rousing success for either Students First or Joe Lhota.Bill de Blasio was on the Working Families Party line as well as the Democratic ballot line.De Blasio received 40,000 votes on the WFP line.
Cuomo Wants To Win Big In 2014 To Set Up A 2016 White House Run
From The Buffalo News:Political insiders say the governor wants to drive his showing up in 2014, in part, to keep his name in play for the 2016 presidential contest and to use as leverage with a State Legislature that has increasingly cool relations with Cuomo. And Western New York is key to that, which could be a problem for Cuomo if Buffalo developer Carl Paladino, who lost to Cuomo in 2010, run
The NY Times Leads Off With Some Bloomberg Propaganda Today
Income inequality has skyrocketed in NYC during the 12 years Mayor Bloomberg raigned.But if you read the NY Times opinion pages today, you learned just how much Bloomberg has done for poverty and how much more he will do not that he is freed from his municipal duties to focus on his "philanthropy" efforts.And so, the inevitable post-Election Bloomberg Propaganda Juggernaut begins.Ignore
How De Blasio And His Team Ran A Very, Very Savvy Campaign
Good summary in the Daily News on how de Blasio and his team crafted a message of change, stuck with that message, and rode it all the way to Gracie Mansion, with the help of his some affecting ads using his family and the ineptitude of his opponents.Nothing surprising in the article, but it does show how deft a campaigner de Blasio is.Whether he shows the same skill at governing is another matter
Don't Get Too Excited
So we have a new mayor, a so-called progressive mayor, who won yesterday's election by an overwhelming margin over his GOP challenger.Exit polls showed 3 out of 4 New Yorkers want the city to go in a different direction from where Bloomberg took it in his 12 years.And Bill de Blasio ran as just that candidate and was rewarded for it at the ballot box.Yet, I feel a tinge of concern over this de Bla
11-5-13 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Vote De Blasio, James, No To GamblingLet's go back to last April as Anthony Weiner was getting ready to enter the race for City Hall.Christine Quinn was firmly in front of all other candidates, the Anybody But Quinn group had just launched their advertising campaign against Quinn but the ads had yet to do real damage to her, Thompson and de Blasio were well behind Quinn in l