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Steven Cymbrowitz at a relative's grave in Israel.

Pol Who Pushed Divestment From Iran Invested in Companies Doing Business There

WITH ENDORSERS LIKE THESE... It was obvious all through 2015 that Mayor Bill de Blasio was desperate to make an impression on the presidential race. From his "Progressive Agenda" events at Gracie Mansion and outside the Capitol building in April and May 2015, to his scuttled plans to host both Democratic and GOP debates, the mayor seemed like an over-eager eight-year-old bouncing up and down to get the grown-ups' attention. Well, he finally got a little of that precious national notice he craved in April of this year—but it didn't come quite the way he wanted it. The mayor brought Hillary Clinton as his surprise guest to the April 9 Inner Circle show, an annual satire of NYC politics put on by reporters. De Blasio and Clinton did a little routine of their own onstage, where Clinton tweaked de Blasio over his belated decision to jump aboard her bandwagon with the rest of the political class. The mayor's excuse? "I was running on CP time," he said. That abbreviation usually stands for "colored people time," and hearkens to the stereotype that black people like to show up late. But here, Clinton helpfully explained, it meant "cautious politician time." Ba-dum tsh. The people in the room groaned and let it go. But a video of the skit escaped into the national news stream a couple days later, provoking some murmurings about sensitivity and the duo's horrible, horrible comic delivery. Clinton naturally blamed the bit of curdled comedy on the lesser Dem—and de Blasio got to be the laughingstock of the whole country and not just New York for a change. Would people have gotten so upset if it hadn't been such a godawful creaking awkward joke? The world may never know.

NYC Mayor’s Defense in Face of Probes: Hillary Clinton Got Investigated Too

By Will Bredderman
Mayor Bill de Blasio today.

Bill de Blasio Has Had ‘Enough’ of JCOPE

By Jillian Jorgensen
Pamela Anderson creates the first all-vegan shake at Millions of Milkshakes in West Hollywood, California in 2010.

Afternoon Bulletin: Cuomo Spox Rejects Pam Anderson’s Vegan Prison Meals

By Parker Richards
ALBANY, NY - MARCH 11: The State Capitol is seen March 11, 2008 in Albany, New York. New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer apologized to his family and the public in a news conference maRCH 10, 2008 in New York City, but did not directly address the reports of his being linked to a prostitution ring. (Photo by Daniel Barry/Getty Images)

JCOPE vs. the US Constitution

By The Editors

Andrew Cuomo Claims Credit for Sheldon Silver Prosecution

By Will Bredderman

Editorial: An Albany Cover-Up?

By The Editors
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