City Hall gadfly (and by-the-way Department of Transportation employee) Isac Weinberger has some predictions for Tuesday’s elections.
“On Tuesday, we might not win the State Senate, and Obama will win by 51 percent,” he said. “It won’t be that overwhelming, but it will be good in the electoral votes.”
Weinberger said Obama’s Read More
Here’s Isac Weinberger at my desk in City Hall yesterday, explaining why David Paterson is so popular amid a state financial crisis. Isac also says that the Republicans “will be working closer with Governor Paterson than the Democrats” because they’re “looking to be the gentle person in the state."
Here’s Obama supporter Isac Weinberger in City Hall’s Room 4A talking about the prospect of Barack Obama meeting with Palestinian leaders — it’s a necessity, he says, like when Israeli leaders first went to Germany — and giving advice about what other groups should be on the agenda. (All of them, he says.)
Here’s Isac Weinberger, mingling near the City Hall steps last week during a Barack Obama rally.
He said he was there because Obama was the Democratic nominee, and because the governor was going to show up. He also said (in reponse to my Isac-style question, ‘What’s the latest?’) that he hoped that a Read More
Yes, Isac Weinberger spends most of his work day at the D.O.T. calling political reporters – without the kind of retribution you’d expect – but he knows how to work the party circuit.
Here he is, on the right, with political operative Yoel Lefkowitz on the left. The man in the Read More
Isac told me today he’s supporting Melinda Katz for city comptroller.
“She’s the only female running against five men,” he explained.
Here’s an invitation for an April 29th “political banquet” in support of Rep. Ed Towns, featuring appearances by Michael Bloomberg and City Comptroller Bill Thompson.
The event is being organized by Towns’ finance chair, the Satmar rabbi Leib Glanz, and as a reader who forwarded it to me noted, the RSVP phone number listed Read More
The Jewish blog Canonist gets into the weeds of the Muslim chaplain controversy, and notes that the most fervent anti-Zionists in the city’s employ are likely some of its Jewish chaplins who are members of the Satmar sect of Chasidism.
The anti-Israel Satmar congregated at City Hall a month ago; one man was introduced Read More
In the days before yesterday’s election, The Politicker asked a number of people who work in and around politics to predict the outcome. Many preferred not to (cowards!) but a couple dozen went along with the admittedly silly exercise.
There was a bit of a wisdom of crowds result here: the median prediction, as it Read More
Our greatest fear in starting this blog is our inability to compete with Isac Weinberger. Isac is to aficionados of New York City politics what the Internet is to other, more advanced people. A Satmar Hasid with a thick Yiddish accent and an indefinable city job — “a desk and a phone,” he says in Read More
