“Say it loud, say it clear, refugees are here to stay,” thousands chanted in New York City’s Washington Square Park Wednesday night. As The Huffington Post reported, the protestors united to rally against President Donald Trump and his impending executive order that calls for a significant reduction of Muslims allowed in the United States. The…
Eva Moskowitz has long been a controversial figure in New York, mostly because she has championed charter schools and feuded with liberals, including Mayor Bill de Blasio. She recently invited more wrath by meeting with Donald Trump amid speculation that she could be in the running for a spot in his Department of Education. Now…
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…
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