Central Brooklyn seems to be where the political action is these days.
This morning Deirdra Towns confirmed that she would in fact run for the Assembly seat being vacated by her brother Darryl, setting off a pitched battle.
And now a reader passes along a flyer for a fundraiser for Olanike Alabi, that will Read More
A reader passes along the following invitation to a fundraiser for Brooklyn assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries tied to the tip-off of the NCAA basketball tournament.
Jeffries name has been buzzing around political circles for a few weeks now after it was announced that Darryl Towns was leaving the Assembly to take a job in the Read More
A reader passed along the following invite to a fundraiser this week for Council Speaker Christine Quinn at RDV, a night club in the Meatpacking District.
It is worth noting that the event will be hosted by three of the city’s most prominent gay lawmakers–city Councilmembers Danny Dromm and and Jimmy Van Bramer, and West Read More
Bill de Blasio is headed to the Waldorf Astoria next month for a high-dollar fundraiser, a clear sign that his ambitions lay beyond the public advocate’s office.
The host committee for the event features a lot of names recognizable to political watchers, and shows what kind of coalition de Blasio would be able to pull Read More
Not very, according to the most recent campaign finance reports.
The original estimation was that the fundraiser–which featured bold-face political names like Chris Christie, George Pataki, Mike Bloomberg and Ed Koch–was that it would bring in $1 to $2 million. The day of, the campaign was speculating that the event at the Midtown Sheraton would Read More
The Politicker peered into the Board of Elections latest round of 24-hour filings and learned a few interesting tidbits:
Among the 24-hour notices going up on the Board of Elections website is a flurry of donations to attorney general candidate Eric Schneiderman, including some interesting names and large sums.
Andrew Farkas–the developer who once employed Andrew Cuomo and now serves as his finance chair–gave $25,000 to Schneiderman’s campaign. Cuomo’s opponent, Carl Paladino, has sought Read More
A reader passes along this invite from the campaign of U.S. Senate candidate Kendrick Meek, who is coming to New York next week to fundraise alongside Senator Chuck Schumer.
The shindig will be at the the Duane Park Building home of NAACP president Bruce Gordon and his wife, Tawana Tibbs and the minimum fee to Read More
A number of environmental activists are getting together tonight to fundraise for Eric Schneiderman’s attorney general effort, according to his campaign.
The event will be headlined by Mark Ruffalo, the star of the film The Kids Are All Right, an upstate resident who endorsed Schneiderman yesterday over the state senator’s strong anti-hydrofracking stance. The Read More
We are late to this, but wanted to post a missive from the Democratic National Committee about a fundraiser on the west side hosted by Michelle Obama and Sarah Jessica Parker and featuring Patti LaBelle later this month. The cost of entry is $250 a head, but putting down a cool $2,500 gets you a Read More
