When Does the Thompson Campaign Start?

When Bill Thompson called fellow Democrat Carmen Arroyo at her Albany office to discuss his race for mayor, she ended the conversation abruptly.
“I had to hang the telephone on him because he was calling my office in Albany,” Arroyo, an Assemblywoman from the Bronx, said in a telephone interview from her home. “He Read More

When Does the Thompson Campaign Start?

When Bill Thompson called fellow Democrat Carmen Arroyo at her Albany office to discuss his race for mayor, she ended the conversation abruptly.

“I had to hang the telephone on him because he was calling my office in Albany,” Arroyo, an Assemblywoman from the Bronx, said in a telephone interview from her home. “He has Read More

A Thompson Supporter Was Hoping for a More Grassroots Approach

Some criticism of Bill Thompson’s mayoral campaign is surfacing this week.
After a press conference in Brooklyn this morning where Michael Bloomberg talked about the installation of new wind turbines, I asked City Councilwoman Letitia James, who said she’s supporting Thompson, what she thinks of the campaign he’s running.
“It’s certainly not the Read More

A Columnist’s Warning for Thompson’s Campaign

“Michael Runs and Bill Sleeps” is the translated headline of Gerson Borrero’s latest column in El Diario/La Prensa.
Borrero says he thinks Bill Thompson has to pick up his campaign or risk facing an “electoral beating” worse the one Michael Bloomberg’s gave Fernando Ferrer in 2005.
That’s quite a warning, considering that Ferrer Read More