Comptroller Brad Lander became the highest-ranking Jewish official in New York City when he took office on Jan. 1. He’s also considered among the most progressive, and can point to a long resume of activism – much of it honed with Jewish groups. “I find a lot of the values that undergird my progressive politics…
Eliot Spitzer, trying to rebound from a sex scandal that cost him the New York governorship, promised to work for a dollar a year while his opponent tried to sing a chorus from David Bowie’s “Heroes” as part of Wednesday’s debate between the two Democratic candidates for New York City’s comptroller. Spitzer now also has…
Eliot Spitzer’s rival in the Democratic race for New York City comptroller repeatedly raised the prostitution scandal that forced Spitzer to resign as New York’s governor during Friday’s televised debate, despite having vowed to avoid it. “There’s two tiers of justice in this city,” said Scott Stringer, the Manhattan Borough president who is running against…
Disgraced politicians Eliot Spitzer and Anthony Weiner are frontrunners in their comeback races, a poll released on Monday showed, with most voters more forgiving about sexual misconduct than financial corruption. “Notoriety has earned the ‘Tabloid Twins’ … good initial numbers in the polls,” said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute which conducted…
Jewish Democrats are sticking with Mr. Clean in his battle with Client No. 9. In other words, Jews favor Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer in the race for New York City Comptroller, despite the headline-grabbing late entry of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer into the once-sleepy contest. Stringer trounced Spitzer among New York City…
If elected New York City comptroller, Eliot Spitzer has vowed to wield power as aggressively as he did as state attorney general, leading some in the financial community to worry that the “Sheriff of Wall Street” might be back. Both Spitzer and his critics, though, may be over-estimating the impact that the comptroller of New…
Lena Dunham, native New Yorker, has spoken. The writer, director and producer of the HBO series “Girls”, took to Twitter on Thursday to announce who she supports in the hot race for the city’s third most important municipal office — New York City Comptroller. I’m a native New Yorker & I like my leaders with…
Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who is attempting a political comeback five years after resigning from office in a prostitution scandal, is leading the race to be New York City’s next comptroller, according to a poll released on Wednesday. Spitzer’s reputation as the “Sheriff of Wall Street” was eclipsed in 2008 by the scandal…
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