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A business associate of graffiti advocate Marc Ecko was busted. For graffiti.
The head of the NRA is going to attend Rudy Giuliani's fund-raiser.
The state comptroller thinks the governor's spending plan is unsustainable.
Bill Hammond looks at which lawmakers are tilting towards 1199.
The head of the state lobbying commission called the Times to say his mid-day trip to play curling is no more outrageous than going to an AIDS charity walk, or to church.
ReformNY is surprised that fixing Albany is considered fodder for presidential talk.
Albany Reform is the name of the party line that an Republican-backed Assembly candidate on Staten Island hopes to use.But he may have some residency issues.
Ben wants Rock Hackshaw to be his City Councilman.
Barack Obama had unpaid parking tickets. Scandal quickly averted.
Juror Number 9 offers an exclusive, inside look at the Scooter Libby trial.
And above is my footage from a City Council hearing yesterday.
-- Azi PaybarahEvents for May 25, 2006
The Assembly holds a public hearing on NYCHA rent increases at 250 Broadway.
Tom Suozzi announces his position on tolls on the Long Island Expressway and an initiative to combat LIE traffic.
In the evening, Big Apple Friends of NRA will host a banquet featuring games, drawings, doorprizes and an open cash bar.
—Nicole BrydsonSpin Cycle: Sheekey Up, Weld Down
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I've been flaky, to say the least, about The Politicker's occasional forays into the awards business, but two bits of spin last week -- one brilliant, one abysmal -- have inspired a return. First:
The Al Sharpton "So Crazy It Just Might Work" Award for great spin goes to Bloomberg political advisor Kevin Sheekey. At least, I'm guessing that it's Sheekey who decided to spin the Mayor's companion Diana Taylor's failure to land the top job at the FDIC as a consequence of Mike's standing up to the NRA. According to this narrative, Bush wanted Taylor for the job, but the gun-nuts in the Senate told the White House they'd block the appointment. She takes a bullet, so to speak, for Mike, gun-control martyr. read more »
The only problem is that nobody involved aside from New York Post headline writers seems to believe the story. (If you read the original piece, which got the wood, you can see the writer hedging pretty hard, and quoting a source who thinks something came up in vetting.) I don't have an explanation -- lots of great theories out there! -- but a conservative source with strong ties both to the White House and the Hill was among those who dismissed the notion that the NRA played a decisive role.
