Hunter Johansson, Bro of Ripe Peach, Saddles up for Denver: Scarlett's Reedy Bachelor Twin Ditches Borough Prez for Obama
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A couple of weeks ago, Hunter Johansson, then a community organizer employed by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, stopped a co-worker, Greg Kirschenbaum, in the lobby of 1 Centre Street.
“Hey, so I think I’m leaving the office and going to work for the Obama campaign,” Mr. Johansson, the twin brother of actress Scarlett Johansson, told Mr. Kirschenbaum.
“I remember, for a while he was asking all the community liaisons where would be the best place for him to go, and I actually recommended Colorado because I thought it would be a good place for him,” said the latter man, who sometimes walked over with Mr. Johansson to Lenny’s Sandwich Shop on John Street for lunch and described him as “a down-to-earth, hardworking and outgoing guy.”
On June 6, Mr. Johansson finished his last day at the Manhattan Municipal Building and left to work as a fellow campaign organizer for the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama, in Denver.
Three minutes younger than his sister, with whom he was raised in Greenwich Village, the fair-skinned Mr. Johanssen was recently anointed a “Hot Bachelor” by People. New Yorkers who have met him say he is polite, a Mets fan, a good-looking guy who wears jeans and a T-shirt off duty and often uses words like “Dude,” “Dawg” and “Bro.”
“There was obviously a little bit of buzz when he started here as an intern before he got hired, but I wanted him to know that I was kind of with it, you know?” Mr. Stringer told the Transom. “So I said to him, ‘Listen, I just want you to know that you were hired based on real merit, and I don’t care who you’re related to.’ And he said, ‘Well, you probably know my grandmother.’”
Mr. Stringer was indeed acquainted with the Johansson siblings’ maternal grandmother, Dorothy Sloan. She was an activist for the city’s Mitchell-Lama program, which provides housing to low- and middle-income families and which Mr. Stringer has supported for 25 years.
The hitherto little-known Mr. Johansson’s announcement came days after Scarlett said in an interview with Politico that she e-mails with Mr. Obama on a regular basis. Did she help her bro land the job?
Ms. Johansson’s publicists declined to make either sibling available for an interview, but indicated that it was in fact Hunter who introduced Scarlett to Senator Obama years ago. (They were also eager to point out that Mr. Johansson, despite an appearance in his sister’s 1996 indie Manny & Lo, never had significant acting aspirations.) The Obama campaign didn’t return repeated calls.
The mysterious Mr. Johansson became an intern at Mr. Stringer’s office right after graduating from the University of Vermont. Once promoted, he was assigned to community boards 2 and 4, which cover the West Village, Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen neighborhoods. He was charged with attending community board meetings and communicating with local leaders, and was particularly productive while working on issues like traffic and congestion in his designated areas, said the borough president.
“He will have a future in politics, I think,” said Mr. Stringer. “He is very comfortable with himself and his ideology and why he wants to participate in the political process. … You never know, he could have the candidate bug, it could happen!”
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Scott Stringer, "with it?" He's a zombie, a crook and a con man.
I told Hunter to avoid Stringer. The boy never had any sense.
I never bother to post comments - in fact I hate it- but I felt that I must respond to the previous posting.
Let it be known that Stringer and his whole team, including Hunter have a lot of sense, not to mention a passion for the betterment of the lives of New Yorks like us. I have seen it! They (especially community reps like Hunter and Greg)work 24/7 with the people holding hearings and town halls attempting to hold others accountable.
Stringer may be a lot of things but crooked it not one of them- he's actually a watchdog, but you seem set in your ways so I don't expect this to change your mind. I just felt the comments should be balanced.
Isn't it great when Stringer has all those staff members with nothing to do except suck up to their boss?
A watchdog? Watching out for Columbia University and all his developer friends who are filling his campaign coffers. Watching out that his dumbed-down community boards don't get too independent.
Stringer is like Chuck Schumer, nothing but a publicity hound with zombie staff members.
Hello dear ladies and gentlemen!
I would like inform you that Scarlett Johansson (actress) actually is a clone from original person, who has nothing with acting career. That clone was created illegally by using stolen biological material. Original person is very nice (not d**n sexy), most important - CHRISTIAN young lady!
I'll tell you guys more, that clones (it's not only one) made in GERMANY - world leader manufacturer of humans clones, it is in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, North Bavaria, Mr. Helmut Kohl home town. You can not even imaging the scale of the cloning activity. But warning! Helmut Kohl clone staff 100% controlling all their clones spreading around the world, they are very accurate with that, some of them are still NAZI type disciplined and mind controlled clones, so be careful get close with clones you will be controlled as well. Think wise..
Apparently those clones are very actively shown on your website. This is just a warning, because original person is not happy about those images and video, rumors and etc., in that way it would be really nice if you try slow down that ''actress'' career development on your website, original Scarlett's parents will really appreciated that. Please do that, do not wait until FBI agent give you a call with questions. Please remember that original family did not authorize any activity with stolen biological materials, no matter what form it was created, it all need to be return back to original family control to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Original Scarlett is not engage!
Her close friend Serg G.
P.S.
H.R. 534, the Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2003, was introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives on February 5, 2003. After discussion, it was passed on February 27 by a vote of 241-155. It now moves on to the Senate for consideration. This bill makes it unlawful for any person or entity to perform or participate in human cloning, or to ship or receive embryos produced by human cloning. The penalties are imprisonment of up to 10 years and fines of $1 million or more.
These now join other nations as diverse as Norway, Australia, and Germany, which had already added cloning for any purpose to their criminal code. And in Germany where it carries a penalty of five years imprisonment they know a thing or two about unethical science.