Well, the Times’s endorsement of Leslie Crocker Snyder did get Bob Morgenthau’s attention. His ad, drawing attention to her greatest weakness — her record as a tough, sometimes conservative, pro-death penalty judge — went up instantly.
Snyder is pushing back with an amusing new ad called Breath, taking shots at Morgenthau and mocking his Read More
The main message of Bob Morgenthau‘s new television advertisement (QuickTime movie can be downloaded here) seems to be that the district attorney is very much alive. He’s pictured out on the streets, mixing it up with the voters, generally doing things that require a pulse. Which is part of why this is such Read More
There should be some prize for political consultant ubiquity.
And if there were, one reader notes, PR man and former Koch spokesman George Arzt would have picked it up on Saturday, when he was quote twice on the same page of the Metro Section.
He gets extra credit, of course, for putting two opposing spins Read More
Here’s another reason for Leslie Crocker Snyder to take on D.A. Bob Morgenthau, from the New Yorker’s piece on the race.
It’s an exerpt from Morgenthau’s 1978 recommendation of Snyder to the mayor’s commission on judicial selection: “Mrs. Snyder has a pleasing presence and is well-spoken.”
We’ve been watching and wondering for months as Freddy’s home borough simmers. The relationship between County Leader Jose Rivera and his predecessor, Roberto Ramirez — Freddy’s top advisor — is one of the great mysteries of city politics. And the feuds among the clans around them — Diazes and Arroyos and Espadas, not to mention Read More
Since the March 16 shooting of Patrick Dorismond, the Haitian-born security guard who was killed in a Midtown scuffle with police officers, criticism has been heaped upon nearly anybody who has offered an opinion on the subject, from Mayor Giuliani to Police Commissioner Howard Safir to Senate candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Read More
