Sun - July 17, 2005Pay it back, Giff(by mgh)
Flyers promoting City Council speaker Giff Miller's mayoral campaign platform and featuring his photo were produced and mailed using City Council funds at a taxpayer cost of $1.6 million. The best thing thecampaign can do now is to pay that money back. Posted at 09:39 PM | Read This Entry | | |
Thu - July 14, 2005Wed - July 13, 2005"Are you Gifford Miller?"(by mgh)
So I'm sitting in the lobby of the building I work in, just outside the cafeteria, next to a huge colorful wall sculpture named "Moby Dick." I've got two Gifford Miller for Mayor signs taped up behind me, flyers spread out on the bench next to me, and I'm holding a ballot petition. I am feeling very awkward. Posted at 05:04 PM | Read This Entry | | |
Tue - July 12, 2005The Fickle Finger of Fields(by mgh)
When Virginia Fields' mayoral campaign was caught distributing a photoshopped image of the candidate with an ethnically diverse array of constituents, here is how Fields did NOT react: "I take full responsibility for this outrageous image. Obviously in the greatest, most diverse city in the world there is no need to manipulate a photo to show the wonderful rainbow of New Yorkers, and I apologize for this absurd oversight. I have taken appropriate internal action in my campaign to be sure that nothing like this ever happens again." Posted at 06:12 PM | Read This Entry | | |
Mon - July 11, 2005Giff Miller drives his bandwagon through loophole(by mgh)
Giff Miller's campaign had so much fun gathering signatures to put his name on the primary ballot (which I helped with), they decided to do it again. The deadline to qualify for the Democratic primary ballot past, Giff Miller is now additionally trying to qualify as the candidate for a new party, called "Smaller Class Size." You've heard of single-issue voters. This is a sub-single-issue party. Posted at 07:45 AM | Read This Entry | | |
Fri - July 8, 2005Jumping in(by mgh)
Politics matters least when it goes right. When good policymakers have power, there is no need for you or me to spend time on it. I'd rather be in the park, at work, or on my couch. And that's where I've spent most of my time until now. The question is, how bad does it need to get before I get involved? I began blogging the New York City mayor's race a few months ago to find the answer. I stopped a couple weeks later. I just didn't care that much: my voice was not going to change anything, and reading about the campaigns was like watching third graders squabble. I went back to the park, work, and my couch. Then some things happened, and today I spent a few hours collecting signatures for Gifford Miller's mayoral campaign. I'll be blogging over the next few days how I went from tuning out politics completely to doing something I'd never thought I'd do -- doing politics in public. (And why I didn't even feel dirty after.) Posted at 07:08 PM | Read This Entry | | |
Mon - May 9, 2005Will the real Bloomberg please stand up?(by mgh)
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's campaign said today that his turnabout election-year policy announcements (see here, here, and here) have been so successful at making voters forget he's underfunded critical social programs the last three years, that the Mayor plans to broaden his new cuddly image by campaigning dressed as lovable children's characters. Posted at 07:00 PM | Read This Entry | | |
Thu - May 5, 2005Two explosions in New York City at 4 AM this morning(by mgh)
Two bombs, reported to be fake grenades packed with real explosives, were detonated in front of the British consulate at Third Ave. and 51st St. in Manhattan early this morning. (New York Times report) Posted at 07:38 AM | Read This Entry | | |
Wed - May 4, 2005Tue - May 3, 2005Oh, right, like no one's ever compared him to Hitler before(by mgh)
Is Rudy Giuliani really like Hitler? If he were, it would almost certainly decrease by some margin his likelihood of success in a 2008 presidential bid. Almost certainly. Posted at 12:19 PM | Read This Entry | | |
Fri - April 29, 2005Wed - April 27, 2005Keep off your grass(by mgh)
Like someone who keeps clear plastic coverings on his new couch, the Bloomberg administration has announced that the Great Lawn in Central Park is off-limits for large gatherings in order to protect the grass. Posted at 11:36 AM | Read This Entry | | |
Mon - April 25, 2005Bloomberg's Plan B(by mgh)
Mayor Bloomberg reached out to reassure voters of his social progressive credentials last week by promoting increased use of "Plan B" morning-after contraception to reduce the city's 90,000 annual abortions. Posted at 12:48 PM | Read This Entry | | |
Fri - April 22, 2005Report from the first 59 1/2 minutes of Thursday night's NYC Mayoral Forum(by mgh)
A 500-seat auditorium unfilled by 150 Democrats: many women, many African-Americans, several BlackBerries, a bevy of digital cameras and cell phones, at least one laptop. At rostrum, two angled tables: the right occupied by four larynxes from WWRL, amplifier of Armstrong Williams (paid-off right-wing shill) and Alan Colmes (who does it free); the left occupied by the four esteemed minds, hearts, hands and souls who propose to deliver us from Bloomberg. Posted at 08:26 AM | Read This Entry | | |
New blood: New York, New YorkI want to be a part of
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