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Jason Horowitz

The Anti-Gun Schumer Returns

In the minutes before the Senate barely voted down an amendment that would have allowed gun owners to carry concealed weapons across state lines, Chuck Schumer delivered an impassioned speech on the Senate floor urging his colleagues not to back the measure. “This amendment will incite a dangerous race to the bottom in our nation’s gun Read More

ON MESSAGE

"I always endorse the Democrats."

 -Senator Chuck Schumer, at an event on July 19 with Comptroller Bill Thompson, on whether he'd endorse Mr. Thompson in the mayor's race

Chuck Schumer is the most powerful Democrat in New York, a senior member of the Senate Democratic leadership, and maybe, according to some people, but Read More

ON MESSAGE

“I always endorse the Democrats.”
 -Senator Chuck Schumer, at an event on July 19 with Comptroller Bill Thompson, on whether he’d endorse Mr. Thompson in the mayor’s race
 
Chuck Schumer is the most powerful Democrat in New York, a senior member of the Senate Democratic leadership, and maybe, according to some Read More

Bloomberg, Into the Albany Muck

In his second and final campaign event of the evening of July 20, Michael Bloomberg visited a steaming hot volunteer headquarters in Riverdale, where he talked about his attempts to narrow the achievement gap between minority and white students.
He was troubled.
“People said you couldn’t do anything about it in the last Read More

Bloomberg, Into the Albany Muck

In his second and final campaign event of the evening of July 20, Michael Bloomberg visited a steaming hot volunteer headquarters in Riverdale, where he talked about his attempts to narrow the achievement gap between minority and white students.

He was troubled.

“People said you couldn’t do anything about it in the last Read More

Kirsten Gillibrand vs. McNuggets

Kirsten Gillibrand has had it with McDonald’s.

"Have you been to McDonald's and looked up on that wall and seen what a Big Mac is?" Gillibrand said, laughing, as she spoke on a conference call with reporters this afternoon to announce a new proposal to counter childhood obesity. "Have you looked at that Read More

Kirsten Gillibrand vs. McNuggets

Kirsten Gillibrand has had it with McDonald’s.
“Have you been to McDonald’s and looked up on that wall and seen what a Big Mac is?” Gillibrand said, laughing, as she spoke on a conference call with reporters this afternoon to announce a new proposal to counter childhood obesity. “Have you looked at that lately?  Read More

Carolyn Maloney and Bill Clinton, Friends

Bill Clinton helped Carolyn Maloney get over her N-word incident by helping her raise money last night,  but he carefully avoided endorsing her in her prospective Senate primary bid against Kirsten Gillibrand.
That wasn’t surprising to several bundlers I spoke to who are loyal to the Clintons (and who now contribute to Gillibrand). One such bundler Read More

Obama’s Speech, as Seen From The Bridges Bar at the Hilton

Not all the attendees of the NAACP’s national conference, held at the Hilton Hotel in midtown this week, got into the third floor ballroom to hear President Barack Obama’s highly anticipated speech last night.
By the northeast entrance of the Hilton’s lobby, across from a sign directing participants of the Korea Global Healthcare Conference to the Read More