Last night I emailed a few people to ask who the real winners and losers were from yesterday’s elections.
Here’s some of what they said.
Joseph Mercurio:”The losers are the people who complicated an election where Democrats would have continued to pick up seats throughout the state by aggressively pushing Read More
The City Council will start interviewing Mathieu Eugene’s family, landlord, and neighbors to find out whether the Councilman-elect was living in the district at the time of the election, a requirement for taking office.
According to one neighbor who spoke to the Daily News, things don’t look good.
A downstairs neighbor, Daphne Charles, 28, Read More
In the comments section, numbers man Jerry Skurnik raises a good point, and politely tells me to stop getting so excited about all these 2008 presidential polls.
“Since candidates have won when polls have shown them down by 20 points a week out, can we just agree right now that no poll a Read More
Here’s a list of people who filed petitions with the city’s Board of Elections to run for City Council, courtesy of the encyclopedic Jerry Skurnik.
For the record, there appear to be 13 names down to run for the Yvette Clarke seat.
The filing deadline was yesterday.
– Azi Paybarah
Jerry Skurnik includes some facts about the selection of judges which he said the Times missed in their recent editorial.
Liz Benjamin looks at some new rules the state Senate may vote on tomorrow.
Spin Cycle has more on these numbers that Maureen O’Connell produced when she ran for Read More
Glenn Thrush notes some interesting contributions to Hillary Clinton’s PAC, including $12,000 in October from a handful of health care providers in Georgia, Arizona and Pennsylvania.
In a speech today, Barack Obama said that “there are no good options left in this war” in Iraq.
Jerry Skurnik looked at diversity in judicial Read More
The city’s newest congresswoman, Yvette Clarke, will get sworn into office next year, but the jockeying for her city council seat is well underway.
According to the encyclopedic Jerry Skurnik and a City Council source, the Mayor will call the special election within 3 days of the vacancy occurring (January 1). Then, the election is Read More
Jason Horowitz gets an earful from the Green Party’s candidate for governor, Malachy McCourt, who isn’t impressed with the other candidates.
“And they actually talk about rolling their sleeves up and getting to work–those fuckers. I have been a laborer. I worked on the docks. That was my fucking living for years. These Read More
Jerry Skurnik, who knows about such things, offers his projection of who will vote, ethnicity and representative, in the heated Congressional primary in Brooklyn’s 11th district.
Blacks 60%Jewish 15%
Hispanics 8%
Seniors 24%
Women 60%
Councilman Yassky District 9%
Councilwoman Clarke District 16%
Senator Andrews’ District 45%
Assemblyman Perry District 11% Read More
