A few days after he hired a campaign manager and then announced the non-news that he would run in the Republican primary, Tim Pawlenty has hired veteran pollster Jon Lerner.
Lerner is based in Washington--and like Pawlenty, hails from Minnesota--but he has some interesting New York connections.
He worked on Doug Hoffman's Tea Party campaign in New 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
So it was interesting to see an advertisement across the top of the Drudge Report today for StopHimNow, a Web site, from the same people, dedicated to portraying Barack Obama as naïve and unintelligent.
An example: Read More
When Senator Hillary Clinton's image loops on the cable news these days, she's likely to be seen as the hardheaded member of the Senate Armed Services committee, grilling a Bush administration official on the U.S.'s vulnerability to North Korea's nuclear program or the state of American military hardware in Iraq.
But as Mrs. Clinton and her Read MoreA Politicker correspondent who stopped in on Bill Clinton's Harlem press conference today reports that Clinton apparently shares our interest in the reports about Arthur Finkelstein, the gay Republican strategist and Pataki advisor who recently married his partner. Clinton was asked about Finkelstein's "Stop Her Now" campaign against Hillary (which was reported here Read More
It's no secret that Governor George Pataki's third term has been an unmitigated disaster, as he and his staff have failed to deal with several of the critical issues facing the state: uncontrollable growth in Medicaid spending, the need to adequately fund schools in New York City, and the lack of a long-term source of Read More
