Gang That Couldn’t Campaign Straight: Eve Markewich Flop

With a who’s who in New York politics endorsing her and what’s left of the city’s Democratic machine behind her, Eve Rachel Markewich’s campaign for the obscure but powerful position of Manhattan Surrogate seemed to be rolling inexorably toward victory.

To further fortify her already advancing campaign, Ms. Markewich decided—fatefully, as it turns out—to hire Read More

Gang That Couldn’t Campaign Straight: Eve Markewich Flop

With a who’s who in New York politics endorsing her and what’s left of the city’s Democratic machine behind her, Eve Rachel Markewich’s campaign for the obscure but powerful position of Manhattan Surrogate seemed to be rolling inexorably toward victory.

To further fortify her already advancing campaign, Ms. Markewich decided—fatefully, as it turns out—to Read More

Ubiquity Watch

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

Hevesi Returns In Comeback Run For Comptroller

A year ago, Alan Hevesi’s career was over. A year ago, he was the man who came in a distant fourth in the Democratic Mayoral race-after being the early favorite. A year ago, he was supposed to do what losing political candidates do, which is take a lucrative private-sector job that traded on his 30 Read More