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Dan Halloran

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2012

    It's Endorsement Time! Grace Meng and Liz Crowley Both Announce New Support In Congressional Race

    It's endorsement season in the crowded race to replace longtime Congressman Gary Ackerman -- who surprised folks last month with the announcement that he would be retiring. You sometimes wonder how much these endorsements really matter -- but at least they offer us some insight into the kinds of d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    Grace Meng Raises $300,000 for Congressional Race; Says it Will Be a Historic Campaign

    Queens Assemblywoman Grace Meng, who would be New York's first Asian-American member of Congress, has raised $300,000 in ten days. Obviously, she's thrilled. "We are definitely excited. I think this is going to be a historical campaign that people all throughout New York and the country are lookin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2012

    Dan Halloran Running For Congress As A Heathen Republican? We Can Hardly Wait

    Could Dan Halloran, our favorite member of the City Council, be running for congress? Hunter Walker reports at Politicker that this is a possibility. We've kept a close eye on Halloran since he ran as one of the first openly Heathens for public office in 2009, being swept onto the City Council as ... More >>

  • News

    January 11, 2012

    100 Most Powerless New Yorkers

    A 'power list' for the rest of us

  • News

    November 30, 2011

    America’s Top Heathen

    Odin himself might have had a hard time predicting Dan Halloran’s strange career on New York’s City Council

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2011

    This Week in the Voice: Heathens, Cloves, and Christmas

    This week in the Voice, out today: Steven Thrasher looks at the career of Dan Halloran, the first heathen elected to office in America -- specifically, to the 19th City Council District in Queens in 2009 -- and "no garden-variety pagan." Robert Sietsema reviews the Indian Clove, a restaurant near ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    Peter Koo and Dan Halloran, City Councilmen, Want to Make English Signs the Law

    ​City Councilmen Peter Koo (R-Flushing) and Dan Halloran (R-Whitestone) want to "quell a culture clash between homegrown residents and new immigrants," reports the New York Daily News, by making shopkeepers change their awnings if the majority of the writing isn't in English. The councilmen sa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2011

    Dan Halloran Lacks All Evidence in Sanitation Snow Charges, Times Says

    Our favorite heathen​Merlin's beard, freshman Councilman Dan Halloran is in the spotlight again! America's highest elected Heathen, and perennial favorite Runnin' Scared Councilman, is in the hot seat today after charges that union sanitation members acted cold-heartedly during Snowpocalypse.

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2010

    Student Sues After Night in the Slammer for Bringing Dog on the Subway

    via the PostIcelyn Garcia with Louie​​Most people probably don't even know it's a law to keep traveling pups in doggie bags on the subway, since dog owners carry them around as though they're cute to everyone (they're not). One Brooklyn College accounting student learned a tough lesson from a pu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2010

    Dan Halloran, Prince Among Men, Lays Royal Smackdown on NYPD

    Dan to NYPD: Bad cop, no donut.​Our favorite new member of the City Council may not be running for Congress, but he appears to be running for Sheriff of Whitestone. Dan Halloran (R-Queens), the heathen member of the city council who is prince of his own medieval domain, took it upon himself t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2010

    It's Rick Lazio for the GOP As Wild-Eyed Radical Republicans Take a Beating

    ​Today was Day Two of the state Republican Party convention and the hot and heavy action on the delegate floor came early and often. These were rock-solid Republicans filling the big ballroom at the Sheraton Towers in midtown, but for all their rhetoric, they could just as easily have been an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2009

    Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

    After the parade. Twitpic by Mzthicknflychic. Theeeee Yankees won! Doooooouuug Hoffman lost! The week was a mixed bag -- half fire, half dog poo. How 'bout them Yanks? They won one in Philly, then another, and were back home at the climax. Local merchants didn't get much out of it -- nor, Tom R ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2009

    Halloran Wins Race, Queens Elects America's First Heathen

    ​ Holy Tyr! Queens voters made American history tonight, when they chose Dan Halloran as the nation's first openly heathen elected official. Halloran will serve as the City Council member from the 19th district, representing Bayside, Auburndale and part of Flushing. He and Kevin Kim were invo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2009

    Battle in Bayside Heats Up

    ​Dan Halloran, Republican candidate for city council in district 19, repeatedly refused to be interviewed by the Voice as long as we insisted on asking him about his unusual religion. (Born a Roman Catholic, Halloran is now "first atheling," or prince, of New Normandy, a neo-heathen "Theodist" ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2009

    Election Day 2009: 6 Losers to Watch!

    It's Election Day and, this being New York, no surprises are expected. As Runnin' Scared has no influence to peddle, we can afford to be brutally honest about this. The Mayor's reelection is treated as a foregone conclusion and, down-ticket, the Democrats are expected to romp (except in Staten Islan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2009

    GRAND OL' PAGAN: What Does the Republican 'Heathen' Running for New York's City Council Actually Believe?

    In a photograph from New Normandy's website, Dan Halloran leads a heathen ritual.​Conservative. Republican. Pagan? It was an odd news story that briefly upended what should have been a sleepy City Council race in Bayside: the Queens Tribune reported that a conservative Republican was running ... More >>

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