I ran around the City Council chambers chatting with members about the primary elections on Tuesday, the impact term limits may have had, and the upcoming mayor’s race. Here’s are some quick highlights:
Oliver Koppell, said, “I got 64 percent. Last time I got 76 percent. I think the difference was largely term limits. But Read More
The executive director of Citizens Union strongly opposed extending term limits legislatively, and hopes that those City Council members who went along with the rules change face the wrath of voters at the polls tomorrow.
But it may not work out that way. In fact, only a handful of the more than two Read More
At a June 12 event outside City Hall, Vito Lopez and others endorsed a challenger to City Councilwoman Diana Reyna.
Lopez, who once worked closely with Reyna, said she was a weak link in the local political scene, and that when Reyna was first elected to the Council, “I’m not sure she knew what Read More
Here’s Assemblyman and Brooklyn Democratic chair Vito Lopez discussing the City Councilwoman he hopes to defeat this September, Diana Reyna. Lopez is supporting Maritza Davila against Reyna, whom he once supported and employed.
At this June 12 event, Lopez mentioned a bunch of elected officials that he works well with, but said, “There is one Read More
Here’s Assemblyman and Brooklyn Democratic chair Vito Lopez discussing the City Councilwoman he hopes to defeat this September, Diana Reyna. Lopez is supporting Maritza Davila against Reyna, whom he once supported and employed.
At this June 12 event, Lopez mentioned a bunch of elected officials that he works well with, but said, “There is one Read More
Opponents of a Brooklyn redevelopment project packed a Community Board One meeting last night in Williamsburg, drowning out a presentation by the city’s Housing Preservation and Development office, in a battle that could influence City Council primaries in the 33rd and 34th districts this September.
Roughly 50 protesters, armed with signs and a bullhorn, chanted Read More
Some more notes on the Working Families Party endorsements that were announced the other day:
It seems like the big winner there is Vito Lopez, the assemblyman and county Democratic chair from Brooklyn. The W.F.P. endorsed two candidates he’s supporting in competitive races.
The first is Stephen Levin, Lopez’s young chief Read More
A reader who attended Brooklyn Democratic leader Vito Lopez’s holiday party at Cono’s last night told me that Lopez “took pains to introduce his co-leader Maritza Davila as his candidate against Diana Reyna, though he did not mention her by name.”
In a brief interview, Lopez said Davilla is “a community organizer” and Read More
An aide to City Council candidate Julissa Ferraras emailed to say she’s having several fund-raisers between now and January 11th, with a few notable hosts, including State Assemblyman Jose Peralta and City Council members Leroy Comrie, Diana Reyna and Letitia James.
The name-dropping shows some continuity of support among other elected officials despite the now-unhelpful Read More
City Councilwoman Diana Reyna of Brooklyn doesn’t think it’s an accident that a vote on whether to extend or abolish term limits will fall to the City Council, and not the public.
The legitimacy of the change, if it passes, would be “undermined” by the fact that “public input was removed by purposely Read More
