Constitutional scholar Wendy Long was a veritable unknown in New York politics five months ago. Today she is the Republican and Conservative nominee for United States Senate to face Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in November. That’s no easy feat. Ms. Long has wowed political leaders in her short time in the public view through her brains and convictions — and […]
Read the rest of this entry »Bob Turner for U.S. Senate
There are a handful of people I’ve met in life who I wish I was more like. Bob Turner is one of them. The television-executive-turned-congressman is one of those rare souls who truly knows who is he is. Anyone meeting Bob Turner for the first time quickly learns that, not through his words — Bob […]
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The campaign of US Senate candidate Bob Turner is offering a free tank of gas to the New Yorker who can most closely guess the date and time when New York’s junior senator Kirsten Gillibrand will flip her position on the Keystone XL pipeline (note: I do work for Turner.) Senator Gillibrand voted against it […]
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It is impossible for me to be objective about Bob Turner, not because he’s a client, but because I’d cut off my right arm for the guy. Not too many people can engender that type of loyalty. If you don’t know Bob, he’s the congressman who was elected last fall in the seat vacated by […]
Read the rest of this entry »Anthony Weiner’s Graciousness
Sometimes it’s the small, unnoticed gesture that can provide the most insight into a person’s character. I was fortunate enough to learn of one of these gestures this week, made by former Congressman Anthony Weiner (D). Mr. Weiner has fallen far in recent months. His Twitter indiscretions took him from national political stardom to the […]
Read the rest of this entry »Man on a Mission
Many messages can be taken away from the NY-9 congressional election Tuesday – the President has problems among Jews and Catholics, machine politicians are an endangered species, and Watch Out!: voters of all parties are now in play – everywhere. But my chief takeaway is the lesson that can be learned from Bob Turner the […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Ever-Relevant Ed Koch
I first met Ed Koch in 1988. Or rather, that’s when he first met me – with his shoulder. I had been sent to City Hall Park to listen in on a Koch news conference and the two of us ended up on separate but converging paths at the northwest corner of the park. When […]
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