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Lunar
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« on: October 07, 2009, 12:21:35 AM »
Bloomberg is trying to give Obama political capital in the healthcare fight in exchange for Obama not endorsing Thompson
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« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2009, 12:58:11 AM »
Quote from: Sam Spade on October 07, 2009, 12:30:15 AM
Quote from: Lunar on October 07, 2009, 12:21:35 AM
Bloomberg is trying to give Obama political capital in the healthcare fight in exchange for Obama not endorsing Thompson

If Bloomberg thinks that will help in any ways towards re-election, then he really is tone-deaf politically.  The minorities will return to the minority candidate in NYC elections no matter what the polls say or what Obama does (see 2005).

Of course, Marty Chavez was also tone-deaf politically.

Well, Obama's endorsement or non-endorsement will have other sorts of impacts than minority votes.
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« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2009, 12:59:27 AM »
Bloomberg is also spending insane amounts of money: $15k an hour since summer.  65 million total last week, probably 75 million by now
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« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2009, 05:27:24 PM »
Quote from: Meeker on December 10, 2009, 04:24:00 PM
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Quote from: JohnnyLongtorso on December 08, 2009, 07:53:35 PM
Republicans hold SD-14.

Edit: That's a ridiculous overreaction.

Especially considering there was a net Democratic gain of one House, and also a notable failure to take Gillibrand's.
What house did the democrats gain?

I think he meant House seat, referring to NY-23.

no I think he was talking about this house:
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« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2010, 08:16:33 AM »
I almost canvassed for Peralta yesterday.

I'm very glad Hiram is out.
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« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2010, 06:03:04 AM »
Bloomberg in a wig isn't as cool as Rudy in drag, but here it is:
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« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2011, 08:03:20 PM »
« Edited: February 10, 2011, 08:05:16 PM by Lunar »
The son Congressman Ed Towns got appointed into the administration of Andrew Cuomo, opening up an Assembly District in East New York.  A Vito Lopez ally, Erik Martin Dilan (son of a State Senator), is favored: http://www.thebrooklynpolitics.com/post/3225030815/councilman-erik-martin-dilan-favored-in-special
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« Reply #7 on: February 11, 2011, 10:14:33 AM »
Quote from: Lunar on February 10, 2011, 08:03:20 PM
The son Congressman Ed Towns got appointed into the administration of Andrew Cuomo, opening up an Assembly District in East New York.  A Vito Lopez ally, Erik Martin Dilan (son of a State Senator), is favored: http://www.thebrooklynpolitics.com/post/3225030815/councilman-erik-martin-dilan-favored-in-special

Actually, another one of the Towns family, maybe Deirdra Towns, could take the seat as well.
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« Reply #8 on: March 09, 2011, 11:22:46 PM »
Another NY State Senator who opposed same-sex marriage has popped:

http://www.capitaltonight.com/2011/03/kruger-to-turn-himself-in/

some potential replacements:
http://www.thebrooklynpolitics.com/post/3752795819/after-carl-state-senator-alec-brook-krasny
http://www.thebrooklynpolitics.com/post/3756113800/one-fugly-district
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« Reply #9 on: March 09, 2011, 11:33:14 PM »
If you're counting, that leaves only one left: http://209.98.77.34/albanyproject/diary/9281/hey-remember-the-four-amigos
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« Reply #10 on: March 10, 2011, 10:00:39 AM »
I'll have to check re: McCain.

And yeah, you can see his district was carved out to help Marty Golden, so it's not exactly a GOP district.  I think the GOP could still have a hope to win a special election here though if another major Democrat petitions to get into the race on a 3rd-line?
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« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2011, 10:01:56 AM »
 45% Obama
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« Reply #12 on: March 10, 2011, 04:38:30 PM »
Quote from: Napoleon on March 10, 2011, 02:11:44 PM
Isn't Kruger's district very east European and conservative Jewish?

Yup.
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« Reply #13 on: March 10, 2011, 05:49:10 PM »

hey, at the time it was the only site available with the info (I looked, trust me).
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« Reply #14 on: March 10, 2011, 08:16:49 PM »
fun Carl Kruger picture, considering he voted against gay marriage:
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« Reply #15 on: March 14, 2011, 09:25:38 PM »

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« Reply #16 on: March 14, 2011, 11:35:12 PM »
Quote from: Gweithiwr on March 14, 2011, 10:44:41 PM
Well I for one am quite sure that there's a perfectly innocent explanation for those photographs.

Well the caption said birthday party 2008.  My general impression is that the male dancer was supposed to be some kind of "joke" picked by one of his friends, but I'm too lazy to actually research them.
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