Last week’s New Yorker magazine featured an article about Staten Island Congressman Michael Grimm getting into an altercation at a club back when Grimm, then an FBI agent, took his gun out and ordered all the white people there to leave.
Later, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio called on Grimm to urge the NYPD Read More
A coalition of anti-gun advocates are calling on Mayor Bloomberg this morning to join them in rejecting Walmart’s plans to expand to New York City in light of a report that the big box retailer is trying to increase its sales of guns and ammunition as a way to boost its bottom line.
“The mayor Read More
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio wants files surrounding Congressman Michael Grimm’s altercation at a Queens night club a decade ago to be release, after detailed allegations surfaced in The New Yorker this week.
In a public statement, de Blasio — who once considered running for that seat — said “Congressman Grimm has an Read More
Independent, non-partisan redistricting is a major goal now being pushed in Albany by former Mayor Ed Koch and good-government reformers. Recently, Anthony Weiner–a Democratic congressman and all-but announced 2013 mayoral candidate–took some heat for his opposition to reforming the way New York’s legislative lines are drawn after each census.
But Weiner is not the only Read More
2012: Obama’s re-elect kicks off with testimonials from the grassroots. [BarackObama.com]
FOIL: Wikiaccountability.org collects FOIL requests scrutinizing Obama. [Noam Cohen]
Federal Budget: Schumer doubts there’ll be a shutdown. [Thomas DeFrank]
Redistricting: Tie-breaking professor endorses “Democratic-drawn map.” Christie a loser. [Lisa Fleisher]
Redistricting: Christie got very involved. [Richard Perez-Pena]
Geraldine A. Ferraro, the former Queens congresswoman who in 1984 strode onto a podium to accept the Democratic nomination for vice president and to take her place in American history as the first woman nominated for national office by a major party, died on Saturday at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She Read More
A colleague jokes that NPR’s lobby is…elected officials. And this email, from Public Advocate Bill de Blasio’s spokesman, only underscores that point, coming hours after a similar one from Rep. Steve Israel.
De Blasio’s spokesman:
Today, House Republicans are calling an emergency meeting to cut 100% of federal funding to public broadcasting.
If Read More
In criticizing Target, for supporitng an anti-gay candidate in Minnesota (which corporations can do, thanks to Citizens United).
Gaga is pulling her music out of the retailer’s stores, as de Blasio happily tweets about it.
One day after Bill de Blasio stepped into the void – created in no small part by Michael Bloomberg’s silence – in comes Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer.
In a letter to Rep. Peter King, Stringer says the congressman’s hearings on terrorism and Islam will make America less safe.
The city is in Read More
NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn says she won’t march in Staten Island’s St. Patrick’s Day parade anymore because, for the first time, they barred participation from LGBT parade-goers.
Quinn, who is Irish and openly gay, made the announcement Sunday surrounded by NYC Comptroller John Liu, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, Manhattan Borough President Stringer and Read More
