Fred Hochberg

The Paterson administration has replaced Port Authority board commissioner Christy Ferer with Fred Hochberg, a former Clinton administration official at the Small Business Administration and dean of Milano, the New School's center for management and urban policy.

While the Paterson administration generally announces such nominations beforehand, this one went in quietly and stayed that way until it was done, as the state Senate last night voted to confirm Mr. Hochberg for the unpaid position on the agency's board.

Ms. Ferer, whose term expired last year, was appointed to the board by Governor Pataki in 2004. Her husband was  read more »

Hillary Clinton held a private meeting for supporters last night at Cipriani's, thanking them for their help during the primary.

Introduced by Senator Chuck Schumer, who spoke about local issues in Mount Vernon and Westchester County, Clinton addressed key supporters, including Hassan Nemazee, Alan Patricof, and Fred Hochberg, and elected officials like Tom DiNapoli and Tom Suozzi.

According to one of the attendees, Clinton did not discuss her future plans.

The event wasn't explicitly a fund-raiser, but at one point Patricof asked guests, once again, to work to help Clinton erase her campaign debt.

UPDATE: The attendee described Clinton as "very much at peace" and characterized the meeting as a sort of final thank you for the campaign.  read more »

The night of Wednesday, July 9, was supposed to be when Barack Obama appealed directly to his supporters to help Hillary Clinton erase her campaign debt.

But he almost forgot to do it.

After finishing his speech to a room full of New York donors at the Grand Hyatt without any mention of helping Clinton with her debt, reporters ran over to Obama's spokeswoman Jen Psaki, who was already spinning hard that Obama's failure to make a pitch was no big deal. ("He said a lot of things," she said.) Then the music stopped and Obama, very awkwardly, started speaking again.

"Hold on a second, guys -- I was getting a little carried away," he began.  read more »

How important is Super Tuesday?

Very, according to this email from Fred Hochberg--a Hillary Clinton fund-raiser and former Clinton cabinet member--that a reader forwarded last night.

Are you ready?

There are six days until Super Tuesday. God made the Heavens and the Earth in that time. And now we have to move Heaven and Earth to guarantee Hillary's victory.  read more »

Like some aspiring small-town actor called back for an audition, Mark Warner returned to New York la  read more »

An interesting event Friday morning at the New School's Milano School for Management and Urban Policy, where Fred Hochberg -- big in Democratic and gay political circles -- presides:

URBAN CONVERSATIONS: CITIES AT RISK

Featuring

Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco and Former FEMA Directors Michael Brown and James Lee Witt With a Keynote Address by Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu

That Michael Brown will be seen with anyone these days.