Ask the American Beverage Association, the coalition of otherwise competing soft drink companies, how it is going to fight Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposal to bar purchases of soda with food stamps, and the answer is a hyperlink to a statement issued last week telling government to back off and stop targeting poor people. Also included: … Read more
True, Rev. Al Sharpton has not endorsed Andrew Cuomo and hinted that he might support Charles Barron and the Freedom Party. There may be more than politics involved: Sharpton has told a few people that the nice thing about having an institutionalized Freedom Party is that it would get the black nationalists off his back. … Read more
The state teachers union’s message to Albany this year? See us after class. The 600,000-member strong New York State United Teachers is poised to boot 30 state lawmakers from its endorsement list this year, which it says is a response to an unprecedented level of anger and frustration among the membership. Many of those not … Read more
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has purchased a vacation home on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, according to property records obtained by City Hall. Administration sources dismissed any significance to the mayor’s purchase of the 14-acre $11 million estates in the state that will cast the first votes for the 2012 presidential nomination. … Read more
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
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