Not Waiting for Bloomberg

Add East Side Republican activist and 2002 Assembly candidate Gail Hilson to the list of people looking forward to Michael Bloomberg’s possible presidential race.

“The bottom line is I think he’d make a great president the same way he’s making a great mayor,” Hilson said in a recent interview.

But she’s Read More

Here’s One Place G.O.P. Curled Up: Our Fair Island

For the first time in more than a century, there are no Republican legislators on the island of Manhattan.

In a campaign that remained in the balance for days after Election Day, Democrat Jonathan Bing, a 32-year-old lawyer, is all but certain to prevail over Republican Gail Hilson, a former cosmetics executive, in a little-noticed Read More