NY1 Exclusive: More Than 600 Hours Blacked Out Of Speaker Quinn's 2011 Schedule To view our videos, you need toenable JavaScript. Learn how.install Adobe Flash 9 or above. Install now. Then come back here and refresh the page. NY1 obtained a copy of City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's 2011 schedule, of which 600 hours are blacked out. NY1's Courtney Gross filed the following report. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's schedule for 2011 is full of holes. NY1 received Council Speaker Christine Quinn's schedules through a Freedom of Information Law request. More than 600 hours were blacked out. Hours council officials say include events that if disclosed would be an unwarranted invasion of the speaker's personal privacy.They could be instances when she goes to spinning class ... Continue reading →

It's been a good week for Mitt Romney. The polls are up, he's just off a two-day swing through Connecticut and New York, where he hauled in big donors and hard money, and he swept the GOP primaries in Kentucky and Arkansas. On Tuesday Texas will put him over the top and make him, formally and officially, the Republican nominee for president. Not everything worked—his big education speech Wednesday was wan and pallid—but he's having a moment. In a telephone interview, he reflected on the campaign, tracing his candidacy's upward momentum to an increased sense among voters that the country is on the wrong path and, perhaps, a growing sense that he's proved himself: "I can tell you that we went through those 37 or ... Continue reading →

Several sources have called in to elaborate on today’s scoop by POLITICO’s Maggie Haberman about Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s attempt to dump four of the state’s top labor leaders off the DNC at-large delegate list. According to these sources, the leaders – DC 37 Executive Director Lillian Roberts, PEF President Ken Brynien, CSEA President/state AFL-CIO vice president Danny Donohue, and NYSUT President Richard Ianuzzi – were notified 48 hours ago that they had been unceremoniously removed as delegates and could only be reinstated if they reached out to the Cuomo administration to request that be done. Several leaders did so, and were subsequently restored. But Iannuzzi, who is now back on the list, was put there despite the fact that he placed no call to Cuomo, ... Continue reading →

We reported last night that President Obama's re-elect effort had canceled week-long flights in Iowa, North Carlina, Virginia and Ohio, which appeared to be a reshuffling of markets. And indeed, the campaign is beginning to place new buys in all four states today, with flights starting Tuesday, a media-buying source says. The fresh buy includes 30-second and two-minute slots. As I noted last night, the campaign has been doing the majority of the positive messaging, as the pro-Obama super PAC has taken up the negative messaging on Mitt Romney's claims of being a job creator. Continue reading →

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo had tried to keep the heads of four major New York state public sector unions off the list of Democratic National Committee at-large delegates, finally agreeing to add three of them late last night after a string of negotiations, multiple sources told POLITICO. A top Cuomo aide insisted that the issue was the number of available slots, adding that there are set quotas allowed by national Democrats in terms of how many people from specific political groups can make it on. Cuomo ultimately picks the at-large delegates who will attend the North Carolina convention this summer. Another source insisted Cuomo never tried to block anyone. "Everyone wants to be on and there are only so many slots," the aide said. ... Continue reading →