Winger for Stringer! Another Actress Stumps for Scott Tags: fundraiser, Scott Stringer Mark Winston Griffith Passes On Council Run http://t.co/uu1MxvwP NY Legislature considering bills to ban anonymous internet comments: http://t.co/cIZ3Ad1b Swag RT @CapitalTonight: @NYGovCuomo arriving at Hotel Albany 4 #LCA show. Continue reading →
Matthew Wing Age: 28 Deputy Communications Director for New York City, Executive Chamber of the State of New York Matt Wing For a Democrat, Matthew Wing’s entry into New York politics was somewhat unconventional: After graduating college, he won a Senate fellowship that landed him a job working for the Republicans under Joe Bruno. This was during Eliot Spitzer’s first few months as governor, when tension between the Legislature and the Executive Chamber—and between Democrats and Republicans—was at an all-time high. “It was an eye-opening and invaluable experience to work with people I didn’t match up with,” he says, “to know where we were different and where we were the same.” From there Wing took a job with then Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, his once ... Continue reading →
Late this afternoon, Joe Ricketts, the founder of AmeriTrade who was the subject of a front-page article in today's New York Times today, sent a memo to the staff of another company he founded, local-news startup DNAInfo.That latter fact wasn't mentioned in the Times article, which characterized Ricketts as being at the center of a strategy to reintroduce the Rev. Jeremiah Wright meme to this election in an effort to paint president Obama as a radical liberal.Ricketts has since distanced himself from the strategy paper obtained by the Times. But his involvement in conservative politics (and raising money and developing strategy for the cause) is well documented.Which raised the question for us earlier today: What would happen if, say, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., or Rupert Murdoch, ... Continue reading →
The brides! @ChrisCQuinn and Kim Catullo at City Hall. http://t.co/G7N8pQmu Continue reading →
