Simcha Felder | The New York Observer

Rudy Looks Back, Frighteningly, in Borough Park

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:00:26 -0400

Here are some highlights from the breakfast at Borough Park, Brooklyn yesterday, where Bloomberg supporters stressed the notion that crime could escalate if he wasn't re-elected. The speakers, Simcha Felder and Rudy Giuliani, both referenced the crime era just before 1993, when David Dinkins was replaced by Giuliani in City Hall, in no small part because of high crime and racial tensions.

Critics like Bill de Blasio (who served in the Dinkins administration under Bill...

Bloomberg Raising Money for Democratic Councilman James Sanders

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:26:00 -0400

Michael Bloomberg held a fund-raiser last night for Democratic City Councilman James Sanders of Queens, according to campaign sources. The event, I was told, took place at Bloomberg's townhouse. Sanders is a natural choice for Bloomberg to back. The councilman voted to support the term-limits extension and was the only Council member to abstain on an amendment that would have required the measure to go through a public referendum. The amendment failed to get a...

Felder Raises More Than He Can Spend, Won't Be Caught With His 'Pants Down'

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:28:00 -0400

Fun fact, from the campaign finance statements that came out earlier this week: City Councilman Simcha Felder, who is running in an uncompetitive race for re-election, raised $175,206 in this latest filing period. It's a total that's well above the $161,000 spending limit the city’s Campaign Finance Board imposed on City Council races. And it also happens to the biggest hall of any Council candidate over the last quarter, according to the campaign. “I’m very serious...