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John Liu ‘Stunned’ By Arrest of His Campaign Treasurer
Jenny Hou at John Liu's campaign office in 2009. (Photo: Facebook) Comptroller and potential mayoral candidate John Liu released a statement this afternoon expressing his surprise at the arrest of his...
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Independence Party Goes to Bat for Carrión
(Photo: Facebook) The Independence Party is fuming that likely candidate Adolfo Carrión was not invited to last night’s Daily News mayoral forum, going so far as to blast out a statement last night...
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Christine Quinn Lands Retail Workers Endorsement
Christine Quinn and Stu Appelbaum (Photo: RWDSU) She may not have announced her bid yet, but Council Speaker Christine Quinn has started to collect support from key labor allies as she campaigns for...
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Adolfo Carrion Kicks Off His Very Unconventional Mayoral Campaign
(Adolfo Carrion) "I know there are some Republicans here in the crowd!" Adolfo Carrion, the ex-Democrat, grinned at his supporters and waited for the expected cheers. They trickled in, failing to...
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Adolfo Carrión Continues Campaign Against the Daily News
Adolfo Carrión is not a fan of the New York Daily News Mr. Carrión, a candidate for mayor this year, blasted the publication this afternoon for a March 5th story questioning an old campaign committee,...
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De Blasio Wishes Quinn Would Wield Her Wrath for Paid Sick Days
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio. Politicos across the city are abuzz with excitement over The New York Times' front-page profile of Council Speaker Christine Quinn's "surprisingly volatile" temperament,...
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Mayor Bloomberg Vows to Veto Paid Sick Day Compromise
(Photo: Getty) Council Speaker Christine Quinn may have negotiated a more business-friendly paid sick day bill than advocates wanted, but Mayor Michael Bloomberg is not satisfied. Indeed, in a...
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Anti-Quinn Group Releases Second Attack Ad
"Nowhere to Go," a new ad, will hit the airwaves Wednesday. (ScreenGrab: YouTube) Rivals of City Council Speaker and mayoral frontrunner Christine Quinn released their second attack ad Wednesday...
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Republican Mayoral Hopefuls Say Drones Should Patrol NYC
John Catsimatidis, Joe Lhota and George McDonald. (Photo: Jill Colvin) The three leading Republican candidates for mayor all support the use of controversial unmanned drones to watch over New York...
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Democratic Mayoral Candidate Suggests Rudy Giuliani as Police Commissioner
The Democratic candidates sparred during their first televised debate. (Photo: NY1) Longshot mayoral candidate Erick Salgado wants to bring Mayor Rudy Giuliani back to City Hall-- this time as the new...
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Critics Question Christine Quinn’s Embargoed Campaign Schedules
A passerby and Speaker Quinn had a spirited discussion about term limits during her campaign launch. (Photo: Hunter Walker) Christine Quinn's mayoral campaign scheduling arrives with a caveat that her...
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Ah-nold Makes Appearance at Mayoral Debate
Bill deTerminator (Image Composite: Wikimedia/Getty) A mayoral election season that has been dominated by one hum-drum debate after the next got a rare moment of levity Friday when former California...
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Council Members Planning to Bypass Quinn on Multiple Bills, Sources Say
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images) As the spotlight shines on mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn’s record as City Council Speaker, at least half a dozen members are...
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Giuliani Says Democratic Mayoral Hopefuls Have ‘Never Really Held a Job’
Rudy Giuliani making the case for Joe Lhota's candidacy for mayor. (Photo: Jacob Kornbluh/YouTube) At a fund-raiser last night for his one-time deputy mayor Joe Lhota, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani not...
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John Liu Says He Can Still Be Mayor, Taunts Feds Again
Jon Liu at a fundraiser in Brooklyn Friday evening. (Photo: Jill Colvin) For nearly any other candidate, two guilty verdicts in the trial of a trusted treasurer and fund-raiser on campaign finance...
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Progressive Pow-Wow Presents Hopes for Next Mayor’s Administration
Panelists discuss a progressive vision for New York City at the CUNY Graduate Center. Short on bombast and long on analysis, left-leaning academics and the co-chair of the City Council's Progressive...
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John Liu Pegs His ‘True Base of Support’ at 25 Percent
John Liu. (Photo: Getty) John Liu's mayoral campaign may be hovering around ten percent in the polls, but according to the candidate himself, they understate his support by more than twofold. Indeed, a...
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Queens Democratic Party Irks Black Establishment by Backing Quinn
Queens Democratic Party Chair Joe Crowley announces his endorsements. When the Queens Democratic Party rolled out its endorsements this morning in Forest Hills, one notable demographic, African...
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Peter Vallone and John Liu May Form Unorthodox Alliance
John Liu and Peter Vallone Jr. pose on their sweet rides. (Photo: Facebook) Queens Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. is a self-proclaimed conservative Democrat, a sharp-tongued proponent of stop-and-frisk...
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Anthony Weiner Pans Pete King but Passes on Michele Bachmann
Anthony Weiner holds court at a civic meeting in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, before the debate last night. Anthony Weiner was far more willing to rekindle old tensions with one of his former House...
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