Four members of the New York City
congressional delegation stood on the steps of City Hall August 4 to endorse
State Sen. Martin Connor (D-Brooklyn/Manhattan), a 30-year incumbent who faces
a grueling primary against a feisty insurgent, for reelection.
The event was the latest in a series of efforts by Connor to
pile up endorsements from prominent Democrats, including those ...
Read more »Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Brooklyn/Queens) spoke at the Crain’s
breakfast forum July 22, unveiling his “Keys to the City” plan for job
creation, a central element to the middle class-focused platform he is once
again making central to his mayoral campaign.
Weiner called his plan an effort to build on the success of
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whom he ran against ...
Read more »Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama swept
through New York City on July 9 to
raise money toward retiring his former rival’s campaign debt and soothe
lingering tensions with some of her supporters.
Obama delivered a modified version of his stump speech to
about 1,000 donors at the Grand Hyatt New York
in Midtown Manhattan. He kept a jovial, if muted tone, ...
Read more »Mayor Michael Bloomberg delivered the keynote address to the
Green Business Summit, a June 18 meeting of counselors for financial traders,
lenders and power utilities to discuss the business opportunities and risks
brought by new green regulations and technologies underway. The summit was
sponsored and run by Chadbourne & Parke, the law firm now home to former
Gov. George ...
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Council Member Michael McMahon (D-Staten
Island) was publicly endorsed June
13 by the Democratic Campaign Congressional Committee (DCCC) in his bid to
replaced retiring Rep. Vito Fossella (R-Staten Island/Brooklyn).
The DCCC made an exception to its rule of not endorsing in a
primary—McMahon potentially faces 2006 nominee Steve Harrison—but ...
Read more »The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York unsealed an indictment for two staffers to Council Member Kendall Stewart (D-Brooklyn) for embezzling $147,000 of discretionary funds.Stewart’s chief of staff, Asquith Reid, and staffer Joycinth Anderson, used a non-profit called The Donna Reid Memorial Education Fund, to siphon $31,000 to friends and relatives in ...
Read more »Days after Sen. Charles Schumer (D) endorsed Daniel Squadron in his bid to unseat State Sen. Martin Connor (D-Manhattan/Brooklyn), the duo held rallies in TriBeCa and Brooklyn Heights.Schumer and Squadron stayed positive, not taking the opportunity to criticize Connor. Schumer said he has made similar endorsements in a primary race where a candidate is a sitting ...
Read more »The City Council voted to send a “home rule” message to Albany March 31, requesting that the State Legislature approve congestion pricing for New York City. The system, which is a modified version of one first proposed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg last April, would charge drivers for driving south of 60th Street in Manhattan. Revenues from the fees would in turn be ...
Read more »Sen. Charles Schumer has tried to change how auxiliary officers are viewed under federal law. Now he is looking to push the Legislature in New York to make a change as well.On the same day that NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly testified to a closed hearing in support of federal death benefits being awarded to the families of two auxiliary police officers killed last year in ...
Read more »Angela Shelton sat under the fluorescent lights at the Campaign Finance Board a few weeks ago wondering what she had gotten herself into this time. When David Hooks Jr., a third-time candidate for Council from Far Rockaway, asked her to be his treasurer for his campaign next year, she quickly agreed. She assumed it would be easy. Then came two hours of training on C-SMART, the ...
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Continuing to Push for Benefits, Schumer Says Albany Should Change Laws on Auxiliary Officers
