The Upper West Side’s special election on Feb. 28 to fill an empty seat in the State Assembly has been criticized as a vestige of old Tammany-style politics, in which the Democratic machine hand-picks the winner long before the first ballot is cast.
But the Democratic Party wasn’t the only network of power brokers exerting Read More
The Upper West Side’s special election on Feb. 28 to fill an empty seat in the State Assembly has been criticized as a vestige of old Tammany-style politics, in which the Democratic machine hand-picks the winner long before the first ballot is cast.
But the Democratic Party wasn’t the only network of power brokers Read More
Brian Kavanagh, the second-place finisher in a crowded East Side City Council race last year, didn’t contest the special election to the State Assembly by Sylvia Friedman yesterday in an essentially uncontested race.
But a recent call to Knickerbocker SKD, Kavanagh’s consultants (who also worked for Mike, Scott Stringer, and new West Side assemblywoman Read More
The complex, weighted County Committee members’ vote on who will get the Democratic nomination to succeed two departing members of the State Assembly is by definition an inside process, but yesterday’s results suggest that it isn’t quite as under control as, say, the bygone institution of judicial conventions. (Nostalgia sets in fast around here!)
Scott Read More
My story a couple of weeks ago about the new West Side machine — Tammany, the headline writer called it — was truer than I knew.
Jerry Nadler and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer — freshly elected on a “reform” platform — have spent the past few days leaning hard on County Read More
Some of the numbers are in for the contest to replace Scott Stringer in the State Assembly, a race whose first round will be fought in a vote of Democratic State Committee members sometime soon, and which will really be decided in what’s expected to be a contested Democratic Primary in the fall.
Charles Simon Read More
