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Howard Rubenstein’s Fingerprints All Over Bloomberg Third-Term Push
A bunch of boldface names came out in support of abolishing term limits today, but earlier in the week, the loudest voices on the subject were all clients of the PR legend.
Posted 10/02/08 in Daily Intel : Early and Often
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Bloomberg III: What Does Everyone Think?
A collection of reactions to Mayor Bloomberg's decision to run for a third term.
Posted 10/01/08 in Daily Intel : Early and Often
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Bloomberg to Announce Run for Third Term
The 'Times' reports that Hizzoner will make the call on Thursday morning. Could this week get any crazier??
Posted 09/30/08 in Daily Intel : It Just Happened
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Mayoral Hopefuls Getting Uneasy About Bloomberg’s Third-Term Talk
In Denver, a handful of city politicians are still in a New York state of mind.
Posted 08/25/08 in Daily Intel : Early and Often
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Like That Creepy Kid From High School, Marty Markowitz Thinks That His 800 Facebook Friends Will Give Him Social Dominance
The 'Times' discovers Marty Markowitz's not-so-secret strategy for victory in the upcoming mayoral campaign.
Posted 08/14/08 in Daily Intel : Early and Often
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Christine Quinn Joins the Scandal Bandwagon
The City Council Speaker has been allocating monies to phony nonprofits at the beginning of every year so she can use the funds later for favors, reports the Post.
Posted 04/03/08 in Daily Intel : Early and Often
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Your Council Speaker Is Totally Crushing on Valerie Bertinelli
In 1978, before we knew we really like boys, we had the mad hots for our bubbly 13-year-old babysitter, Lisa, who rocked gym shorts, knee-length Jox socks, and two perfect, feathered brunette wings over her forehead. But why did we really worship her? Because she was a dead ringer for Valerie Bertinelli, that spunky Italian nymphette who, back then, played youngest daughter Barbara on One Day at a Time. (Today, she duels with Kirstie Alley in those Jenny Craig commercials.) So, in this new NY1 clip, when our (sometimes) bubbly, openly lesbian City Council speaker Christine Quinn said that she likes to chill out by watching Lifetime flicks starring the adult, still-perky Val, we knew just what she was talking about: "Anything with Valerie Bertinelli is usually a good show because there are struggles," said Quinn, who also did the usual dodge of the usual probe into her mayoral ambitions. "They are strong women, and it usually ends on an up note."
Posted 12/05/07 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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Norman Mailer for Mayor of New York, 1969
As friends and family paid respects to Norman Mailer at his wake in Provincetown, Massachusetts, yesterday, we decided to dig up our part of one of Mailer's most colorful personal stories: when he ran for mayor in 1969. "I am paying my debt to society," he told Time that summer. "That is why I am running." He ran alongside newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin, who ran for City Council president. They began their campaign at the urging of friends like Gloria Steinem and Jack Newfield, at a time when they saw the city as a wounded place in need of healing. Breslin recounted his experience of running, and how Mailer convinced him to do it, in a May 1969 New York cover story. Click below to read. MAILER-BRESLIN: Seriously? [NYM, pdf]
Posted 11/13/07 in Daily Intel : Obit
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Parsing the Catsimatidis Dis in the ‘Times’
Today’s Times profiles mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis, who just switched parties to try for a Republican nomination. If you read very closely, you can catch subtle signs that writer Robin Finn is not taking his candidacy entirely seriously. See if you can spot some! • Headline: “Another Billionaire Who Wants to Be a Mayor” [We're already cracking up.] • Lede: “Those black plastic eyeglasses – reminiscent of the magnate Aristotle Onassis…” [Because he is, you know, GREEK. In the real world, Catsimatidis’s glasses look equally like Henry Kissinger’s or Alan Greenspan’s.] • “But how the heck does their wearer… see a blessed thing? In focus, that is.” [Wow, what?]
Posted 11/02/07 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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Mayoral Maybes Ray Kelly and John Catsimatidis Go Both Ways
Our City Hall hopefuls' political affiliations are as about as fluid as a Vassar sophomore's sexuality. One prospective candidate, Gristedes billionaire John Catsimatidis, switched his affiliation from Democratic to Republican last week — after supporting both Clintons and, in 2000, Gore. Now the Times, in a profile of another possible contender — police commish Ray Kelly — breezily muses: “It is not clear whether Mr. Kelly … would even run as a Republican. Mr. Kelly is not registered with any political party.” The very existence of this choice — hmm, which crew should I run with (or from)? — speaks to a curious local phenomenon: Jumping parties has apparently become a mark of New York City mayor material.
Posted 10/15/07 in Daily Intel : Early and Often
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