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In the week since the Queens Tribune published an article portraying Council candidate Dan Halloran as engaged in a cult-like form of heathenism, Queen Republicans have engaged in serious discussions about replacing their nominee in the race to succeed Council Member Tony Avella. Their choice to replace him is Paul Vallone, who finished third in the district’s recent Democratic … Read more
There is Carolyn Maloney, after throwing her back out from unloading another candidate’s posters from a car, laying on the floor of campaign headquarters that election night with her feet in the air, calculating vote tallies in her head as the results of each machine arrive. There is Carolyn Maloney, so caught up in a … Read more
To put it mildly, the first mayor of consolidated New York, Robert Anderson Van Wyck, was not too big on ethics. Van Wyck was tapped as Tammany Hall’s nominee in 1897 when Democratic bosses were looking for a yes man who would take orders from them. They found their man in Van Wyck, a former … Read more
“I hope that one of the things that people are going to see in the campaign and also if I’m fortunate enough to be mayor is that I’m going to do the job with a smile on my face,” Weiner said. “Sometimes it feels like Mike Bloomberg is getting a root canal when he’s in … Read more
Bill O’Reilly was supposed to get out of politics. He got hitched, became a step-father of two young girls and had a third of his own. No longer “the swinging New York bachelor,” as he put, O’Reilly decided politics was too kinetic a business for a responsible adult to keep. That lasted about six months. … Read more