By Azi Paybarah 2/05/10 6:09pm

Gillibrand: Disclosing Bonus is ‘Essential’ for Ford

Kirsten Gillibrand said it’s “essential” for Harold Ford Jr. to say whether he got a “taxpayer-backed” bonus while he was working at Bank of America.

“We don’t [know] so, so I think he should be honest with the American people,” Gillibrand said this morning at a press conference with Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who Read More

By Azi Paybarah 7/22/08 3:23pm

Weiner as a Middle-Class-Friendly Bloomberg

At the Crain‘s business breakfast breakfast this morning Representative Anthony Weiner spoke about "saving" New York’s middle class, a theme that is likely to be at the center of his mayoral campaign.

The crux of Weiner’s speech, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Manhattan, focused on job development. He did not rule out raising taxes, Read More

By Staff 2/23/06 4:41pm

AG Update

Apparently, today was the day to drop big names in the AG’s race.

This morning, Mark Green pulled out the triple endorsement of David Dinkins, Judith Hope and Marty Markowitz. [In an earlier version, I tied these endorsements to the McCall/Cuomo race in 2002. Many of you were kind enough to let me know Read More

By Staff 11/29/05 1:03pm

New School Post-Mortem

I’ve spent this morning at the New School, where two panels of senior aides to the five major Mayoral candidates went back over campaign decisions, first the primary and then the general election, steered by ABC News’s Mark Halperin.

The event featured a little news: Bloomberg aide Bill Cunningham says of Mike’s Read More

By Staff 9/13/05 10:00am

Bad Advice From the Daily News

In the restatement today of its position on this primary — “the Daily News is rooting for a run-off” — the tabloid’s editorial board does all it can to ensure the opposite result — that there won’t be another round.

“Waste not your votes on Miller and Fields,” the News advises. (No Read More