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Green Hits de Blasio With the Manila Folder

The manila folder attacks again!

A reader passes along a flier that's being circulated criticizing Bill de Blasio, who is in a run-off for public advocate against Mark Green.

It’s the same design as another flier that went around Jackson Heights recently, where incumbent City Councilwoman Helen Sears implied that her opponent, Danny Read More

Dredging Up the Record in Jackson Heights

City Councilwoman Helen Sears has put out this flier about her opponent, Danny Dromm.

Sears, who represents Jackson Heights, was having an easier time when she faced three challengers, who could have diluted the anti-incumbent vote against her. But one opponent, Alfonse Quirroz, dropped out and endorsed her, leaving her with one major opponent, Dromm, Read More

Sears Runs Late

City Councilwoman Helen Sears missed an appointment for an endorsement interview with the Queens Tribune editorial board yesterday, according to the paper's publisher.

According to the editor, Mike Schenkler, her campaign apologized and said that it was a scheduling mishap. Schenkler said that she's not necessarily disqualified from getting the endorsement, but that Read More

Sears Explains Her Term-Limits Vote

Defending the term-limits extension can be tricky.

In a July 30 interview with the Times Ledger, City Councilwoman Helen Sears defended her vote to extend term limits, saying, "You can’t decapitate communities by leaving projects that you wish to move along after they start,” and, “When I’m out of office, nobody’s picking up my Read More

Quiroz Dropping Out of Council Race, Supporting Sears

Alfonso Quiroz is withdrawing from the City Council in Jackson Heights and throwing his support to incumbent Helen Sears. The two remaining candidates are Stanley Kalathara, who has raised $67,952, and is active in the South-Asian community, and Democratic district leader Danny Dromm, who has raised $81,087 and was endorsed by the Working Families Party. Read More

Quiroz Dropping Out of Council Race, Supporting Sears

Alfonso Quiroz is withdrawing from the City Council in Jackson Heights and throwing his support to incumbent Helen Sears.

The two remaining candidates are Stanley Kalathara, who has raised $67,952, and is active in the South-Asian community, and Democratic district leader Danny Dromm, who has raised $81,087 and was endorsed by the Working Families Party. Read More

Helen Sears on Keeping Things the Same

A reader passes along this video from a candidate’s forum last Thursday in Jackson Heights, where City Councilwoman Helen Sears is facing a crowded field of opponents. In this clip, Sears, who voted to extend term limits, talks about why change could be bad. “People don’t like to see changes. This is a time when Read More

The Case Against ‘Two-Term White Incumbents’

Bill Thompson and others just spoke to reporters outside City Hall, saying they hoped to persuade the federal Justice Department to block last year’s term-limits extension, which they say will have a “chilling” effect on minorities running for office.

Tomorrow is the soonest the D.O.J. could issue a decision on whether the term-limits extension unfairly Read More

Kelly’s Staff Levels

Ray Kelly is still testifying at the budget hearing on public safety in City Hall. Most of the talk so far is revolving around the reduced headcount he’s facing - from a peak of 40,800 in 2001, to an expected low of 33,325 at the end of Fiscal Year 2009 (as predicted by the Office Read More


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