When Mark Penn was dislodged from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, the two people who stepped up to try righting the ship were Howard Wolfson and Geoffrey Garin.
Now, they’re working for rival candidates in the mayoral race.
After Garin released internal poll numbers yesterday showing Bill Thompson is closing the gap, Wolfson, in Read More
For the second-straight day, Michael Bloomberg declined to disavow what critics say were racially coded comments made by Rudy Giuliani, who warned an audience of Jews in Brooklyn that crime could rise if the mayor wasn’t re-elected.
While at the ferry terminal in Lower Manhattan to receive the endorsement of Democratic Representative Read More
Michael Bloomberg’s campaign spokesman responds to President Obama endorsing their opponent, Bill Thompson, basically calling it a typical partisan move.
“We’re not surprised that the President supported the nominee of his party,” said Howard Wolfson. “That’s to be expected.”
“As the White House said today, the Mayor and the President have had a good relationship Read More
Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand will endorse fellow Bill Thompson for mayor at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Union Square, according to sources familiar with the arrangements.
The endorsements are scheduled one day after a “unity rally” on the City Hall steps, where Thompson was endorsed by a number of Democrats, including the Democratic candidates Read More
Long before Howard Wolfson signed up to work on re-electing Michael Bloomberg, he criticized the mayor’s spending habits, saying after the 2005 mayoral race that his expenditure of tens of millions of dollars against overmatched opponents “distorts the terms of the debate.”
Last night, Wolfson appeared on New York 1 News, where reporter Michael Read More
Yesterday, Bill Thompson’s campaign blasted Michael Bloomberg for not reporting $3.3 million in personal contributions he made to political entities, saying the mayor was trying to skirt the city’s campaign finance laws.
The criticism was undermined somewhat by the fact that most, if not all, of the contributions at concern had been reported. Read More
One small complication with the Bloomberg campaign’s push to blame Bill Thompson for the city pension funds’ under-performance over the last seven years is the fact that Bloomberg has appointees on the pension boards who, as far as we know, did not object to any of the investments that were made.
In a Q&A Read More
In the latest example of the Bloomberg campaign’s post-Rose Garden strategy, they’ve unveiled new policies to crack down on pay-to-play in the city, piggybacking off the A1 Times story about Bill Thompson’s handling of the pension funds.
Bloomberg’s plan includes barring matching funds for contributions bundled by lobbyists and also from people Read More
In 1998, Josh Isay recruited his best friend and fellow Capitol Hill operative, Howard Wolfson, to return to their native New York and work on the long-shot U.S. Senate campaign of his boss, Representative Chuck Schumer. Around the same time, Jefrey Pollock, then a 27-year-old Philadelphia transplant who tried to mask his pubescent appearance Read More
Here’s video of Bill Thompson at today’s event with the head of DC 37, the union that endorsed him, saying he won’t release his answers to their questionnaire.
Michael Bloomberg, whom the union endorsed in 2005, released his answers yesterday, and said today that he won’t make “irresponsible promises to win Read More
