The person who got the most votes in yesterday’s election?
No, not Michael Bloomberg. It’s Comptroller-elect John Liu.
According to unofficial results, Liu got 696,330 votes, with 652,511 on the Democratic line, and 43,819 on the WFP line.
The second-highest total belonged to Bill de Blasio, in the public advocate’s race. He got 672,383 votes. 627,390 came Read More
Cy Vance’s campaign announced endorsements today from 1199, the health care workers union, and 32BJ, the city’s largest private union.
They’re major unions with well-proven Get Out the Vote operations. It’s also worth noting that they are part of the labor coalition that runs the Working Families Party which, as an umbrella organization, backed another Read More
1199 SEIU, the union representing health care workers, announced their endorsement of Bill de Blasio for public advocate and John Liu for city comptroller.
"It is with great pride and excitement that we endorse two outstanding leaders who are great friends of our union and staunch advocates for working families," the union's president, George Gresham, Read More
Al Sharpton had just stepped out of a meeting with Barack Obama.
It was January 2007, and he was down in the Obama Senate office during a trip to Washington to meet with a number of Democratic presidential contenders. Mr. Obama had been almost uncannily pitch-perfect, Mr. Sharpton thought, hitting every talking point and Read More
Michael Bloomberg and Dennis Rivera, the former head of SEIU 1199, have teamed up again, this time to co-author a piece on Huffington Post about the need for health care reform They write, "In our respective roles as Mayor and leader of the nation's largest union of nurses, doctors and healthcare workers, we have worked Read More
They write, "In our respective roles as Mayor and leader of the nation's largest union of nurses, doctors and healthcare workers, we have Read More
Here’s a print ad that's in the Daily News. It's the latest shot at David Paterson from 1199 SEIU over the governor's proposal to reduce health care spending.
The union’s strategy is to target Paterson’s very public allies, like Macy’s department store, Time Warner Cable, and Con Ed, which, for most Americans, are better associated Read More
Here’s a print ad that's in the Daily News. It's the latest shot at David Paterson from 1199 SEIU over the governor's proposal to reduce health care spending. The union’s strategy is to target Paterson’s very public allies, like Macy’s department store, Time Warner Cable, and Con Ed, which, for most Americans, are better associated Read More
Matt Canter, a spokesman for Kirsten Gillibrand, called in this morning to say that when Gillibrand told a member of 1199 SEIU at a union function up in Albany this weekend, "Your commercials are great," she was expressing admiration for the union's commercials in Washington D.C.
Those ads featured workers offering testimonials in favor Read More
ALBANY—Kirsten Gillibrand thinks New Yorkers are starting to get used to the idea that she’ll be a senator for a long time.
“I think it’s happening already, I really do,” Ms. Gillibrand said in an interview on Feb. 14 as she ate a celery stick dipped in blue cheese at the end of a long day Read More
Support from the W.F.P. helps to cast Rose as the most progressive candidate vying for the seat vacated by Michael McMahon, who was elected to Congress in November.
The special election Read More
ALBANY-A week before the process to appoint New York's junior U.S. senator reached its messy end, Governor David Paterson stood onstage at an event with Hillary Clinton and compared his experience in the state's highest office to a dirty movie.
"I've been governor for nine and a half months," Mr. Paterson jokingly told the crowd Read More
David Paterson is coming under fire from 1199 SEIU and Greater New York Hospital Association over his proposed cuts to health care.
But the "doomsday" budget proposed by Michael Bloomberg on Friday has yet to prompt a similar backlash--at least, not one in the form of an expensive advertising campaign--from labor and affected Read More
As a certain segment of the political world speculates about what Barack Obama’s early personnel choices might mean for his Middle East policy, one New York consultant – whose client list has included Chuck Schumer, Michael Bloomberg, Christine Quinn, Scott Stringer, Joe Lieberman, 1199 SEIU and 32BJ – has gone to work for Read More
[img_assist|nid=88|title=Robach.|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=200|height=290]1199 SEIU - a major union working to help elect Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama - is keeping its commitment to helping Republicans maintain control of the State Senate, announcing the endorsement of Joe Robach for re-election in Rochester.“As we face a very serious fiscal crisis in the capital, we need effective leaders Read More
