BerlinRosen Wins the Blake Zeff Primary

Blake Zeff, who worked under Howard Wolfson on Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and, before that, at the New York State Democratic Party, has been hired by the consulting firm BerlinRosen.

The hiring was announced in an email to clients that was also forwarded to a few reporters.

Zeff is a talented guy and since the Read More

The Road to the White House Is Hempstead Turnpike

A pamphlet advertising the “National Center for Suburban Studies” was among the souvenirs Hofstra University distributed to reporters covering the final 2008 presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain on Oct. 15. The pamphlet’s back cover consisted of green-tinted cars commuting in heavy traffic. Travelers attending the debate from the city encountered a sign Read More

Keeping Up With the Bushes

So how is Hillary going to run up the score this year?

The spokesman for the State Democratic Party, Blake Zeff, confirmed to me that they’re rolling out a nascent field program called “Neighborhood Network,” under which volunteers around the state focus on bringing around their own communities in a kind of neighbor-to-neighbor, Amway-style Read More

Friday IMterview: Blake Zeff

This Friday’s brief edition of this not-so-regular feature brings you Blake Zeff, a former Chuck Schumer press guy who is now the prolific spokesman for the New York State Democratic Party.

BENOBSERVER: So I theorized in the paper this week that you’re part of a plot to make John Spencer the GOP Senate nominee. Read More

State Party Staffs Up

The Politicker hears that Blake Zeff, formerly of Chuck’s office, has started work as the new press secretary for the New York State Democratic Party.

A clear sign that the party is gearing up for … one of these elections or the other.

UPDATE: Also, a reader notes that three of the communications staffers on Read More