More news out of the 54th Assembly district--a seat left vacant when Darryl Towns was named Andrew Cuomo's housing commissioner.
According to several sources, Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez is backing Jesus Gonzalez, a community organizer with Make the Road New York who also has the support of the Working Families Party. Velazquez has a longtime rivalry with Read More
Back in January, after an unsolicited email defending Andrew Cuomo, Hank Sheinkopf told The Observer to "keep wondering" if he might sign on to work for the presumptive governor.
Well, the wondering is over.
The State Democratic Party--an extension of the Cuomo operation--just announced they've hired the longtime consultant, who delighted in referring to Cuomo Read More
One more thing about the point Jake Menges raised in his affidavit, alleging that Debi Rose got an unfair advantage when received discounted help from the Working Families Party.
Menges, a political operative who worked for Rudy Giuliani, wrote to the court that "in my years as a political consultant, I have never heard Read More
Probably nobody has spent as much time working to derail Andrew Cuomo's political ambitions as Hank Sheinkopf, the consultant who opposed Cuomo during his 2002 gubernatorial campaign, and again during his 2006 attorney general campaign.
These days, Sheinkopf is more supportive.
He sent an unsolicited email to me this morning, saying, "For the record; Why Read More
A reader pointed out to me that David Paterson is in the unenviable position of most likely needing to rely on a high turnout among African-American voters to boost his chances of winning a competitive primary, but opposing the Senate candidacy of Harold Ford Jr., who would be running against Paterson's appointed senator, might be Read More
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
How did Queens end up electing three Republicans on Tuesday?
The first was Eric Ulrich, who held his seat in the Howard Beach, Rockaway section, which is pretty blue-collar and the kind of place Rudy Giuliani did well. Which is why the former mayor campaigned there with Republican Eric Ulrich. But Ulrich could have held the Read More
Here’s a little bit more about Norman Siegel beefing up his campaign operation by signing on with Hank Sheinkopf.
"Michael Oliva will act as Sheinkopf's senior strategic adviser to the Siegel campaign," the campaign said. That's the same Michael Oliva who recently parted ways with another public advocate candidate, Eric Gioia, over strategic Read More
Not for the first time, Hank Sheinkopf is attacking Melinda Katz for what he says is an overly cozy relationship with New York’s landlords and real estate community.
He points to an invitation to a fund-raiser she’s having at the home of Howard Milstein, described alternately as a “real estate magnate” and Read More
Hank Sheinkopf is doing his bit to make a surprisingly lively comptroller's race a little livelier.
Here's the response I got from Sheinkopf, who is working for candidate David Weprin, to yesterday’s Quinnipiac poll, which showed Weprin behind the three other Democratic candidates:
"The road to city hall has never been paid for Read More
“I’m in Florida for the weekend,” said Mr. Sheinkopf, one of a number of prominent Democratic consultants now working for the mayor, in a recent phone interview. He was there for a speaking engagement. Read More
ALBANY—Asked by reporters last week what his priorities are for the end of the legislative session, David Paterson said that relief for suburban homeowners was at the top of his list.
That much has been apparent from his activities in recent weeks as the governor made several appeals to non-urban voters, first appearing in suburban Read More
“Everybody is saying, ‘I’m seeing you everywhere around the city of New York,’” Mr. Thompson said on April 27 as he sat in a conference room upstairs from his Broadway campaign headquarters, which shares space with state court offices and a dentist. “I Read More
Today, it should be noted, is the special election for Bronx borough president, and Assemblyman Ruben Diaz Jr. is expected to win by a landslide.
Diaz will fill out the remainder of the term of his predecessor, Adolfo Carrion, and then almost surely run for re-election (and almost surely win if he Read More
One week after releasing his first television ad, Michael Bloomberg’s campaign is going up with two radio ads.
The first is all about Bloomberg’s empathy for struggling New Yorkers, with gentle violin music and the mayor, soft-spoken, saying, "It’s not easy these days."
The other radio refers to, but does not Read More
