Firefighters for Snyder

Leslie Crocker Snyder was endorsed for Manhattan district attorney by the Uniformed Firefighers Association at an event just now on the City Hall steps.

Snyder “displayed a tremendous sense of equality and also has kept the city of New York safe for 35 years both as a prosecutor and as a judge,” the group’s president, Read More

Fred Thompson’s Anti-Rudy Talk in NYC

Here’s a clip of Fred Thompson taking a whack at Rudy Giuliani last night during his midtown appearance before an audience of New York Conservatives.

“I was conservative yesterday, I’m a conservative today and I will be a conservative tomorrow,” he said.

In attendance for the event were Al D’Amato, John Faso, John Catsimatidis, congressional Read More

More Contract Talk

And speaking of contracts, the Mayor just announced a collective bargaining agreement with the Uniformed Firefighters’ Association, which includes a retroactive wage increase of more than 17 percent, but which also reduces the starting salaries of new firefighters to about $25,000.

“We are not happy about that component of the agreement,” said Steve Cassidy, the Read More