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Mayoral Hopeful John Catsimatidis Picks Up Democratic Firm For Election

The man who calls himself the candidate "for Harlem and for Wall Street" while praising Romney's fondness for oil a few months ago is on the hunt for great PR. And, as a Republican with tons of money in New York, he's decided to pull a move straight out of the Bloomberg campaign playbook. Leave it ... More >>

The 2013 Mayoral Race May Be The First Election In Ten Years Without Bloomberg Money

When Mr. Bloomberg leaves office next year, it's safe to say that we'll be analyzing his legacy a thousand times over to unravel just exactly what the City will look like in the coming years. But, if there is one thing we can point to as a souvenir of the past decade under Bloomberg, it's the extent ... More >>

Mayor Bloomberg's Super PAC Scores Victories (And Losses) On Election Night

Last week, we reported on the millions spent by the Hozziner's self-constructed super PAC on House campaigns across the country in the lead-up to Election Day. The money was sent to candidates that the Mayor shared similar views with, whether it was on education, small business initiatives or same-s ... More >>

In Stop-and-Frisk Debate, Mayor Bloomberg and Bill de Blasio Bad-Mouth Each Other

The debate over the NYPD's controversial stop-and-frisk policy is in full swing this week with a proposal from the public advocate prompting a badmouthing match between the mayor and the elected official who hopes to replace him in 2013. Yesterday, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, an expected mayor ... More >>

Bloomberg, Kelly Finally Piss Off The Media; Furious Letters Being Written

The Bloomberg administration is being targeted by the media right now for the NYPD's banning and arresting of reporters during last week's expulsion of the Occupy Wall Street tent city. In a letter signed by media companies and press groups, New York Times lawyer George Freeman accuses the police ... More >>

FDNY Confiscates Occupy Wall Street's Generators

​The fire department and police department paid Occupy Wall Street a visit this morning and took their power generators. The FDNY says they were looking for anything that posed a fire hazard: generators, fuel, gas tanks, etc. According to reports, the materials were removed peaceably. This i ... More >>

Does Anyone Really Believe the Postponed "Cleaning" of Zuccotti Park was Brookfield's Decision? [UPDATED]

​Our Harry Siegel, who has been in Zuccotti Park since 9:00 PM last night, just phoned in to pose this question: "Does anyone really think this was Brookfield's decision?"

Citizen Bloomberg

How our mayor has given us the business

NYC Bike Lanes Get Bloomberg PR Push

​New York City and the Bloomberg administration are deploying a secret weapon in the war over bike lanes, the New York Times reports today, in the form of some offense led by Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson. "We allowed the other side to frame this debate," Wolfson told the Times. "That's really t ... More >>

As Polls Go Against the Mosque, Bloomberg Preaches Religious Liberty

The Mayor stands tall

Mike Bloomberg Wants To Make Sure No One Ever Again Pulls a Mike Bloomberg

​No one wants to read about the city charter. It's too important. Yet, every couple of decades a mayor decides that the city's constitution requires a top-to-bottom rewriting. That's what Mike Bloomberg did in March. He's appointed a 15-member commission and told it to do anything ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg Pained by Obama's Snub: The Transcript

​The Daily News front page today is all about how Mort Zuckerman's friend Mayor Mike Bloomberg is feeling hurt by the White House's failure to give him a heads-up about President Obama's Cooper Union visit to deliver a speech on financial reform. The Voice has obtained an exclusive transcrip ... More >>

Jonathan Tasini Carries a Democratic Torch Against Gillibrand

Rebel in a pinstriped suit

Mike Bloomberg's $1.2 Million Indy Party Donation Gets Murkier and Murkier

​The legality of Mike Bloomberg's $1.2 million in personal contributions to the Independence Party immediately before last year's mayoral election gets murkier and murkier. I wrote a blog item last week that demonstrated three ways the contributions may have violated state law, exposing Bloo ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg Broke Election Law, Admit His Own Lawyers

Things are looking slushy, Mike​Even Mike Bloomberg's lawyers say he broke election law when he gave $1.2 million to the Independence Party right before the November election. The mayor's media guru, Howard Wolfson, and his elections lawyer Ken Gross told the Daily News that Bloomberg's two ... More >>

Mort Zuckerman For Senate? We Can Guess Where That Story is Coming From

​Michael Barbaro and Tim Arango have only shared two bylines in their Times careers. On Saturday, the two reported that Daily News publisher Mort Zuckerman "is considering" a run for Kirsten Gillibrand's U.S. Senate seat. In August 2008, they broke the story that Mike Bloomberg had been hold ... More >>

More Bloomberg Wretched Excess

The final tallies are in on the most-costly-local-election-ever. The new campaign records show that Mike Bloomberg -- the four percent winner -- doled out Christmas Eve bonuses of $400,000 apiece to campaign manager Bradley Tusk, press wrangler Howard Wolfson, and all-around cheer leader Patti Harri ... More >>

Bloomberg and Thompson: The (Really) Odd Couple

Now it can be told: The surprising ties between the billionaire mayor and the poor slob who ran against him

The Bloomberg Blowout That Wasn't

History's richest campaign wins by a nose

Barrett: Builder Blamed In Firefighter Deaths Is Building Bill Thompson's Wife's Museum

​Bovis Lend Lease, the contractor whose admitted failings contributed to the deaths of two firefighters at the Deutsche Bank fire in 2007, is building the $180 million museum and condo project on Fifth Avenue spearheaded by Elsie McCabe, the wife of mayoral candidate and Comptroller Bill Thomp ... More >>

Barrett: Recalling When Mr. Tough-Guy Bloomberg Wasn't Too Tough to Purchase DC 37's Endorsement

Kissing union butt in 2005Mike Bloomberg is now boldly declaring that he "will not make irresponsible promises to win an endorsement," the tough-guy-standing-up-for-taxpayers stance he's using to explain why the largest municipal union, 125,000-member District Council 37, endorsed his opponent, Dem ... More >>

Barrett on the Mayoral Race: Thompson Comes Unglued About schools, Bloomberg Tries to Paddle Him

If the latest poll numbers are to be believed, Bill Thompson is now a real candidate for mayor. So it's time for all of us in the media to start treating him like one, and for him to start sounding like one. He hardly sounded like the measured and thoughtful man we know him to be when he called fo ... More >>

Bloomberg Pops Up in Rupert's Post

As Mario Cuomo famously said, when New York Post publisher Rupert Murdoch likes a politician, he lets you know it. Back in 1982 when Cuomo was campaigning against Post favorite Ed Koch for the Democratic gubernatorial nod, he griped that when normal papers endorse a candidate  "you get one column ... More >>

Bloomberg Turns Over His Next Campaign to Blagojevich's Ex-Deputy

Bloomberg's Double Deal

As term-limits fight raged, a hush-hush $1.2 million campaign

Bloomberg Maneuvers to Crown a Kennedy

Who's Caroline's daddy?

Inside Mayor Bloomberg's Hiring of Hillary Clinton Aide Howard Wolfson

Bruise Brother

Supposedly Democrat-Friendly MSNBC Has Let a Clinton-Hating Joe Maul New York's Senator

Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy Rides Again

Hillary Haters Go Wild Over Campaign-Finance Acquittal

Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy Rides Again

Hillary haters go wild over campaign finance case

N.Y.'s Power Couple

Reverend Al Sharpton and Rupert Murdoch join forces to fight television technology

Dead Man Losing

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Rick Lazio

Lazio to CBS: I'm No Pansy

The Candidate Makes an Antigay Remark and Nobody Notices

On Any Given Day

Hillary on Diallo Case: From Pretrial to Postverdict

Reverend Norris's Big Mouth

After a long-awaited showdown with Hillary Clinton, an ally of Al Sharpton triggers a vicious debate about guilt by association

Sheehy’s Choice

New Bio of Hillary Clinton Bends the Facts

Hillary 'Banned' In Crown Heights

The First Lady's embrace of Former Mayor David Dinkins ignites an orthodox Jewish backlash