Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty

We stumbled across this picture a day or two ago, and at the time we just shrugged it off as two guys having a nice chat at the annual Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty legislative breakfast.

Think they were talking about Tom Suozzi?  read more »

-- Lizzy Ratner

Eliot Spitzer's next campaign mailing:

Eliot Spitzer: Princeton graduate, attorney general, future governor... yenta. (Photo taken at the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty's 30th Annual Breafkast.)  read more »

CUNY Trustee and UNDC Board Member Jeff Wiesenfeld asked us to post his response to our item, and to the series of nasty comments following it, about his attendance at a breakfast for Eliot Spitzer hosted by the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty:

"I believe in Met Council - I have attended and will continue to attend all of their events regardless of their speaker.

"My loyalty to George Pataki in all that he does requires no proclamation.

"As to your anonymous commentators, here's something for the record...'Fuck 'em all.'"  read more »

He added:

"Hey - Isac Abraham: why don't you sign your name? Everyone knows it's you. You're the dog of Williamsburg. If not for Norman Rosenbaum, who would spit on you?"