Whatever Dave Seifman’s flaws, he knows the City Hall beat.
But Seifman doesn’t know bupkes about the Satmar.
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Whatever Dave Seifman’s flaws, he knows the City Hall beat.
But Seifman doesn’t know bupkes about the Satmar.
The tragedy in Connecticut may very well signal a chance for a political sea change on gun control, which only ever happens in the aftermath of tragedy.
The assassinations of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King set the stage for the first meaningful gun control in 1968. The attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan led us to the Brady Law.
The other day a prominent NYC columnist caused a fire storm with her column implying something nefarious about the DeBlasio family’s love life:
The Governor makes a pre-emptive reaction strike against the blowback from something he enabled in the first place. http://politicker.com/2012/12/cuomo-warns-state-senate-coalition-that-hes-the-peoples-ins
Cuomo: This is an internal Democratic dispute. Jeff Klein is a Democrat, Sampson is a Democrat, Gianaris is a Democrat…This is among Democrats This is not really about Republicans.
ANDREA PEYSER: Bill de Blasio knows about diversity.
What a waste–New York gets some worthless position on a second rate committee when we could have had Chelsea Clinton in Congress (an idea I shot down
Skelos says the Senate Bargain and Sale Deed is a model for the nation.
Let's see, small rump factions holding out support in exchange for favors.
I'm sorry, but if the Chair of the State Democratic Party (who seems to harbor the delusion that the State Democratic Party means the Governor) can't bring herself to support the choice of the Democratic Party’s Conference for the leadership of the State Senate, she should resign.