Miller’s Barrio Roots

Over brie and wine at the gallery theXpo in the fashionable Brooklyn neighborhood of Dumbo last week, Gifford Miller raised some eyebrows with a new version of his East Side childhood.

The Speaker grew up, he casually mentioned, in “East Harlem,” according to two attendees.

One guest at the event speculates that it was Read More

Giff on the Beeb

The BBC apparently enjoyed yesterday’s Times story on Miller’s cabaret talents enough to pick it up, with just a little lost in translation:

“‘He’s a different type of candidate, a different type of election official,’ Mr Miller’s publicist Reggie Johnson told the BBC News website.”

Key Black Strategist!

The Post today gets very excited about Gifford Miller’s hiring of Reggie Johnson, a “key black strategist” who, it reports fairly breathlessly, worked on Hillary‘s 2000 campaign.

Johnson is a very nice guy — last time we saw him around here, in 2002, he was the spokesman for failed Comptroller candidate Bill Read More