The New York Observer » Bill Lynch http://www.observer.com Just another WordPress site Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:39:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What Giuliani Means for Paterson One thing that disappears along with Rudy Giuliani's threats to run for governor: an excuse for Democrats to get rid of David Paterson.Paterson's poll numbers are low, and his fund-raising is anemic, but much of the talk about getting Paterson out of the race was, at least publicly, premised on the notion that a credible Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/politics/what-does-giuliani-mean-paterson To the Bitter End With Paterson, Proudly ALBANY—Next Thursday, Sally Minard will commit an act of political courage.

Ms. Minard, a strong presence on the Democratic donor circuit in New York and a supporter of Hillary Clinton and the DNC, will host a breakfast at her Upper East Side house in honor of David Paterson. It shouldn’t be courageous for a Democratic Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/politics/bitter-end-paterson-proudly Someone Named Bill Lynch Is Impressed by Andrew Cuomo Bill Lynch owns Cuomo2010.com.

Did your head just explode a little bit? Bill Lynch—deputy mayor under David Dinkins, consultant to the Harlem political establishment, defender of David Paterson—owns Cuomo2010.com?

"You're aware of my record, right?" Lynch said when I called, noting he "fully" supports Paterson and saying this must be some kind of Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/politics/other-bill-lynch-impressed-andrew-cuomo Bill Lynch: ‘Giuliani Is Going Back to The Old Days’ One of the people Rudy Giuliani was aiming at when he talked to an audience of Jews in Brooklyn about the prospect of crime returning to 1993 levels was David Dinkins. (Dinkins, who was the mayor until the end of 1993, when he lost to Giuliani, hasn’t returned my call for comment.)

Another is Bill Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/politics/bill-lynch-giuliani-going-back-old-days Paterson’s Tricky Dance With Unions ALBANY—After a gripe session at the end of last month in Kingston, David Paterson has been working to shore up ties with labor groups. But it's a tough sell at a tough time.

"I don't have any trouble getting through, I have trouble convincing them," said Alan Lubin, executive vice president for the New Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/4830/patersons-tough-dance-unions Patrick Gaspard Writes Poems, Collects Comics, Kills for Obama 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

]]> http://www.observer.com/4185/patrick-gaspard-writes-poems-collects-comics-kills-obama Gioia Gives Bill Lynch Another Crack at Mark Green In signing up with Eric Gioia’s campaign, Bill Lynch said the choice was obvious. “I cannot think of a major issue in the City in the last decade that Eric hasn’t been deeply involved in,” Lynch said in a public statement released by the campaign. “And he has spent more time in more different communities Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/politics/gioia-gives-bill-lynch-another-crack-mark-green Gioia Gives Bill Lynch Another Crack at Mark Green In signing up with Eric Gioia’s campaign, Bill Lynch said the choice was obvious.

“I cannot think of a major issue in the City in the last decade that Eric hasn’t been deeply involved in,” Lynch said in a public statement released by the campaign. “And he has spent more time in more different Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/3308/gioia-gets-lynch-public-advocate-race Black Voters Warm to Cuomo, Black Political Leaders Mostly Don’t Everything is looking up for Attorney General Andrew Cuomo as he enters early-campaign mode by hiring a new fund-raiser, sending out campaign emails and continuing to capitalize on his position to create headline after laudatory headline. This morning brings news of yet another positive indicator: a Siena college poll showing him with a garish 67-17 point Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/politics/black-voters-warm-cuomo-black-political-leaders-mostly-dont Black Voters Warm to Cuomo, Black Political Leaders Mostly Don’t Everything is looking up for Attorney General Andrew Cuomo as he enters early-campaign mode by and continuing to capitalize on his position to create headline after laudatory headline.

This morning brings news of yet another positive indicator: a Siena college poll showing him with a garish 67-17 point lead over David Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2603/black-voters-warm-cuomo-black-leaders-dont If Not Paterson, Who? As he walked out of a St. Patrick’s Day breakfast at St. Bart’s church on 51st Street on March 17, Mr. Paterson told The Observer, “Somebody once Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2564/paterson-finds-he-s-stiff-armed-harlem-hero If Not Paterson, Who? Governor Finds He’s Stiff Armed As Harlem Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/politics/if-not-paterson-who Michael Bloomberg and the Universal Retainer At the mayor’s state of the city speech earlier this month, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz referred to Michael Bloomberg’s reelection campaign as a “job creation program.”

For New York’s most prominent Democratic consultants and operatives, it’s been nothing less—an acquisition project so far-reaching that it actually threatens to dry up the market in experienced local Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/1682/michael-bloomberg-and-universal-retainer John Liu’s Team for ’09: Lynch, Siegel, Lake, Mission Control John Liu has signed Bill Lynch Associates to be the general consultants on his campaign for public advocate, a campaign aide confirmed.

“This is a very accomplished group of campaign strategists and partners who have signed on as a team for John Liu, the next public advocate,” said Chung Seto, a senior strategist on the Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/1320/john-lius-team-09-lynch-siegel-lake-mission-control Bill Lynch on Caroline Kennedy, Relations With Paterson Representative Carolyn Maloney hired to help her pursue Hillary Clinton's Senate seat, doesn't think much of the public record of Caroline Kennedy, who now is the only other candidate for Clinton's job known to have hired a consultant specifically to win the appointment of Governor David Paterson.

Asked Read More

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