Brad Lander is calling for an investigation into how an advertisement purportedly from his campaign denouncing gay rights got published in a Yiddish newspaper.
“[O]ur campaign did not request, see, authorize, approve, or pay for this advertisement. It contains false and misleading statements that are inconsistent with, and harmful to, our campaign,” Lander’s treasurer, Read More
On Saturday night, Josh Skaller’s campaign sent out an email from the candidate’s wife defending the couple’s decision to send one of their children to private school.
The Skaller email, titled “Protecting Our Son Wolf,” was sent by Josh’s wife, Kelly, and says the issue was being raised by one candidate in the race, Brad Read More
At an endorsement ceremony for City Council candidate Josh Skaller in Park Slope this morning, former presidential front-runner Howard Dean admitted he got himself into a little bit of trouble in the Democratic primary in the 39th District.
After a rousing introduction and brief speeches by Dean and Skaller, the first question was, surprisingly, about Read More
Here’s a video of Howard Dean explaining how he came to basically endorse two candidates—Josh Skaller and Brad Lander—in the City Council race for Bill de Blasio’s seat.
“Democracy for America is endorsing Josh and Josh only,” Dean told a group of supporters this morning.
“However, my situation is different.” Dean Read More
Public advocate candidate Bill de Blasio said last night that he's 99 percent sure he won't endorse any of the (many) people running for the Brooklyn City Council seat he's vacating.
Among those candidates is Bob Zuckerman, a former president of the Stonewall Democrats, where de Blasio and other public advocate candidates Read More
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
Steve DiBrienza, a former City Councilman known for jousting with former mayor Rudy Giuliani, confirmed he plans to run for his old job again in Brooklyn’s 39th District.
“Yes, I am looking to run for City Council,” he said in a telephone chat.
When asked about his battles with Giuliani, DiBrienza said they Read More
Brad Lander got a labor endorsement in his bid to replace City Councilman Bill de Blasio, who is vacating his seat in Brooklyn to run for Public Advocate.
The campaign released a statement from the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1500 and says it’s “the first labor union endorsement in a 2009 City Read More
Brownstoner has an interview with Brad Lander, the director since 2003 of the Pratt Center for Community Development who is now running for City Council in District 39, which includes Carroll Gardens and Park Slope.
Mr. Lander praises much of current Brooklyn life, but has some sobering warnings on development and what he Read More
The downside of all this idealistic talk about building “workforce housing” for the middle class is that there is no easy way to finance them. The Bloomberg administration has used tax-exempt bonds to fuel much of its housing program so far, but those, because of legal restrictions, only work when there is some low-income Read More
