I'm also hearing that Cuomo 2010 is in talks to hire Patrick Brennan, the labor operative who worked on two of Michael Bloomberg's campaigns.Brennan previously worked for 1199, and did some traveling around the country for a certain covert Kevin Sheekey project.
Brennan did not return email or phone messages.
About 30 minutes before Bill Thompson walked into the Teamsters Union Local 810 building on 15th Street for an endorsement interview this afternoon, out walked his leading opponent, Michael Bloomberg.
Accompanying Bloomberg for the meeting, which was not on his public or campaign schedule, and was not open to the press, were his campaign Read More
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
During a Q&A in Albany today, reporters tried to ask Michael Bloomberg about Chris Smith's story that details his former aide's travel across the country in service of a possible presidential bid.
But all they got was the usual boilerplate denial, which according to a reader who was there, went something like: No matter Read More
One of the city’s most influential lobbying and consulting firms just picked up a key Michael Bloomberg commissioner, Patrick Brennan. The Parkside Group announced it hired Brennan as a president, adding him to its small but well-connected roster. Brennan was a commissioner for the Community Assistance Read More
Mayor Bloomberg just announced Patrick J. Brennan as the long-awaited replacement to Jonathan Greenspun as head of the Community Asssistance Unit, an office that has taken on renewed importance and prominence since all the demonstrations and hard feelings started in the city's Orthodox community a couple of months ago. After rumors that Terry Tolbert Read More
As the media fades to irrelevance in the last days of the campaign, the people who matter are the ones doing Get Out the Vote, GOTV to the insiders. And a major Bloomberg campaign player who has, until now, escaped notice is Maura Keaney. On loan from the union UNITE HERE, she's running Mike's Read More
We're just back from the first campaign finance briefing at Mike's spiffy new headquarters off Times Square, where we noticed a diverse bunch of volunteers and some clear Kevin Sheekey touches. Among our favorites were the five clocks along one wall, each showing the time in a different key location: Brooklyn, the Bronx, Staten Read More
The Ferrer campaign made three minor hires today -- or, as the Post would have it, landed a Key Black Strategist or two. But we hear the staffer Ferrer's team really covets is Patrick Gaspard, Dennis Rivera's well-reputed political hand, currently the political director for Rivera's powerhouse union, SEIU Local 1199. Read More
Three recent hires for Bloomberg's reelection campaign have made news: Schumer aide Stu Loeser, Dennis Rivera aide Patrick Brennan, and Harlem Assembleyman Keith Wright aide Terence Tolbert. These were interpreted as a hint at a Rivera endorsement and as a slap at Gifford Miller, who tried to hire Terence. But Read More
Three recent hires for Bloomberg's reelection campaign have made news: Schumer aide Stu Loeser, Dennis Rivera aide Patrick Brennan, and Harlem Assembleyman Keith Wright aide Terence Tolbert. These were interpreted as a hint at a Rivera endorsement and as a slap at Gifford Miller, who tried to hire Terence. But Read More
