Ambassador Buys KT McFarland’s 770 Park Spread for $17.5 M.

Some Park Avenue duplexes have simply too much herringbone and acanthus moldings or Juliet balconies and neoclassical staircase banisters to fall into non-conservative hands.

One-time G.O.P. Senate hopeful K.T. McFarland has sold her 13-room apartment at 770 Park to W.L. (Lee) Lyons Brown Jr., a former George W. Bush–appointed ambassador to Austria. He paid Read More

McFarland Moves On

Back in the warm confines of City Hall, I caught this moment on Fox News.

It’s former Senate candidate KT McFarland talking about national security issues on, arguably, the channel most Republican primary voters choose to watch.

It’s especially interesting to see McFarland playing ball with Fox, whose owner was condemned by her Read More

KT Counts On Kitchen Women

So if you think turnout is going to be low for the Democrats, just think about the Republicans. Without primaries for governor or attorney general to attract voters to the polls, the only thing going for them — from the perspective of moving voters to polling places — is the Jerry Springer-esque Senate contest between Read More

Events for September 12, 2006

Tomorrow is Primary Day!

Eliot Spitzer votes at PS 6 on East 81st Street and hosts his election day party at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que on West 131st Street.

KT McFarland votes at Hunter College and hosts her primary night party at the Women’s National Republican Club.

Andrew Cuomo votes at the High School of Leadership on Read More

Spencer Goes Nice

John Spencer is going statewide with the 30-second biographical ad he released right before his debate with KT McFarland last month. A Spencer spokesman said they’ll be running the ad on cable, since, according to their research, Republican primary votes watch plenty of cable news (read: Fox News).

Spencer’s other ads, with images of Read More

Elsewhere: Lieberman’s Snakes on the Brain

During a very friendly appearance on conservative commentator Glenn Beck’s radio show, Greg Sargent reports, Joe Lieberman agreed with just much of what Beck said, including that the real reason we invaded Iraq wasn’t over WMD but because we wanted to “pop the head of the snake in Iran.”

After receiving some attention from Read More

McFarland to Spend More Time With Family

Family problems have plagued KT McFarland’s campaign for months, so maybe it should come as no surprise that yet another family scandal has perhaps delivered the knockout blow to her weak campaign for U.S. Senate.

“This past Saturday, my 16-year-old daughter, Camilla, was caught shoplifting from two stores in Suffolk County, NY. She was Read More

“Fiasco”: The Close Up

Short, sweet, and to the point. Notice the prominent use of the word ‘fiasco’ with the close-up of Andrew Cuomo. So is ‘comparison’ now a euphemism for, uh, attack? (Attack via surrogates, but still…)

But what else do you expect from the Blue Donkey Group, whose message on their website is “I want Read More

Spencer “Wins”

Now that was a nasty debate.

I’m not sure that either John Spencer or KT McFarland will have been helped by their televised confrontation on NY1 last night. McFarland talked about Spencer’s marital problems, and he told that she ought to be ashamed of her comments “as a mother of children.”

But there has to Read More