Vance Campaign Engineers Primary-Day Takeover of NYC Taxis

I’m in a cab heading uptown and have already seen two television ads for Cy Vance, the Manhattan DA candidate. He may be the only candidate advertising inside cabs.

In a primary in which turnout is expected to be low, advertising like this could be get the attention of Manhattanites who may not have noticed Read More

Leslie Crocker Snyder and the Glass Ceiling

Leslie Crocker Snyder hoisted her granddaughter onto her hip, kissed her on the cheek and said, “Hopefully she won’t have to face the kind of discrimination that many of us had to face, [like] when the D.A. asked me for a letter of permission from my husband to go to the homicide bureau. She won’t Read More

Two of Three Manhattan D.A. Candidates Own Guns

Two out of the three Democratic candidates for Manhattan district attorney said they are gun owners, they said during a debate at WABC’s studios in Manhattan.

Leslie Crocker Snyder said she got a gun “at the suggestion of the police department when I had the death threats” while she was a judge during the 1980s Read More

Aborn May Have the W.F.P., But Vance Gets 1199 and 32BJ

Cy Vance’s campaign announced endorsements today from 1199, the health care workers union, and 32BJ, the city’s largest private union.

They’re major unions with well-proven Get Out the Vote operations. It’s also worth noting that they are part of the labor coalition that runs the Working Families Party which, as an umbrella organization, backed another Read More

Snyder Attacks Vance for Defending Clients

Here’s Leslie Crocker Snyder’s new television ad, titled “Seattle,” which says that Cy Vance spent years away from New York City “to make millions defending criminals, mobsters, murders, helping doctors who defrauded Medicare.”

Vance has defended his record as a defense lawyer, noting that some of the cases Snyder criticizes him for were actually Read More

Vance’s Salt

Here’s a flier from Cy Vance that hits back at what his campaign says are inaccurate statements being made by rival Leslie Crocker Snyder.

As Michael Saul noted today, the Vance mailing doesn’t say what inaccuracies Snyder is spreading about him. It’s a way of indicating that Read More