Subject: Kevin Sheekey

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

  March 11, 2009

• Bloomberg Maneuvers to Crown a Kennedy

  Who's Caroline's daddy?

  January 14, 2009

• The Transformation of Mike Bloomberg

  How the benevolent billionaire with no political debts ended up owning us all

  November 19, 2008

• Draft Bloomberg Campaign Seeks To Raise Cash

  January 16, 2008

• Bloomberg and the Press Give Joe Bruno a Pass on Congestion Pricing

  April 15, 2008

• 3 Bloomberg Aides Oppose 3rd Term, Says Times

  August 29, 2008

• Wayne Barrett: Why Bloomie is Campaigning for Caroline Kennedy

  December 18, 2008

• Everyone's Just Jealous of Kevin Sheekey's Big Score

  December 18, 2008

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

  December 24, 2008

• Kennedy Catches a Break from Local Papers

  Today the local papers give Caroline Kennedy a sort of New Year's reprieve, suspending their recent, almost-probing attention in favor of ambiguously soft stories. The Times, master of the two-way headline, says "For Kennedy, Self-Promotion Is Unfamiliar," meaning so many of her job offers have come over afternoon tea that she is understandably all at sea in the contentious world of work as experienced by us peons ("She's never been aggressive," testifies college friend Maura Moynihan, who is th

  December 31, 2008

• Online City Payroll Search Site is Lazy Journalists' New BFF

  When SeeThroughNY.net announced it had a new feature with which one could search New York City public servant payrolls, scribes got busy with it. "Wonder how many people work at the Landmarks Preservation Commission and how much they make?" asks MSNBC. "There are 60 full-time employees making from $33k to $178k." The Daily News finds it noteworthy that Schools Chancellor Joel Klein makes a quarter-mil and Deputy Mayor Patricia Harris makes $227,219. Newsday's Spin Cycle reveals Kevin Sheekey "ge

  January 7, 2009

• The Sheekey Diaries

  The daily schedules of Kevin Sheekey, deputy mayor for Bloombergian political ambitions, have been posted courtesy of a FOIL request and a good deed by Azi Paybarah, the NY Observer/PolitickerNY's indefatigable political watchdog. In addition to Paybarah's shrewd observations (he notes, for instance, that Sheekey's last diary entry for the mayor's still-born pledge to initiate a new Charter Revision Commission was last February), a quick read of the much-redacted schedules offers these feeble i

  January 21, 2009

• Mating Game: Bloomy Loves Fred Newman, All Over Again

  One of this town's great political love stories is about to have a re-run. And like Taylor and Burton, and Madonna and Guy, it's bound to be even steamier the second time around .Mike Bloomberg and Independence Party guru Fred Newman are trying to patch things up, the Times reports this morning, and this time it's Bloomberg in hot pursuit. The mayor, who desperately needs a political line or two to run on this fall, dispatched his campaign manager, Bradley Tusk, to visit Newman and fellow Indepe

  February 19, 2009

• Mike Bloomberg Is The Eternal Mayor

  How the mogul politician hatched his latest ploy to stay in play

  September 10, 2008

• Bloomberg's Double Deal

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

  March 11, 2009

• Bloomy's 'All Stars'

  August 15, 2006

• Pomp or Protest

  February 24, 2004

• Bloomberg Tosses Money at GOP Foe

  January 18, 2005

• Mike vs. Rudy: The Smackdown

  July 3, 2007

• Bloomberg Wants to Get in Your Genes

  January 29, 2008

• President Bloomberg?

  January 1, 2008

• Jail Scandal Revelation: They Needed a Minyan!

  In case you were wondering why all the Orthodox Jewish inmates ended up in the city jail in Manhattan known as the Tombs, where they could enjoy special treatment, we think we have an answer. Supposedly, an inmate is an inmate is an inmate, barring medical and security issues, and the rules say they should be placed without regard to religion. If you got picked up in Bed-Stuy, the South Bronx or Harlem, that's how it would go, whether you're Baptist or Pentecostal or Lutheran. Correction sourc

  June 17, 2009

• 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, Democrat Bill Thompson. Maybe there's even a whiff of truth in the Bloomberg boast. But only in 2009. The last time around, he sold out the taxpayers to win DC 37's endorsement. In fact, Bloomberg tri

  August 14, 2009

• Bloomberg Keeps His Billions Separate From His Mayoral Obligations? Yeah, Right!

  September 1, 2009

• Barrett: Bloomberg Book Confirms it was McCain's Nomination That Kept Bloomie from a Presidential Run

  ​Politico posted an excerpt from Joyce Purnick's new biography of Mike Bloomberg this morning and, incredibly, no one noticed the astonishing references in it to Bloomberg's real attitude about Barack Obama. The book, entitled Mike Bloomberg: Money, Power, Politics (Public Affairs), will not be released until September 22; this was an exclusive peek inside. Bloomberg pulled out of the 2008 presidential race in a February 28 New York Times op ed piece right after it became clear that John

  September 14, 2009

• Bloomberg's Term Limits Scheme

  September 29, 2009

• Barrett: My Favorite Nugget from Last Night's Debate

  ​My favorite nugget from last night's mayoral debate was Mike Bloomberg's smug smile as he pronounced Joe Bruno a better majority leader of the state senate than Pedro Espada. Democrat Bill Thompson had already picked the-sometime Democrat Espada as the better of the two. By 3:12 a.m., the Post called it Thompson's "worst moment," describing Bruno as "the steady Republican" without mentioning his current eight-count felony indictment. Espada was acquitted the only time he's been charged w

  October 14, 2009

• Barrett: My Favorite Nugget from Last Night's Debate

  ​My favorite nugget from last night's mayoral debate was Mike Bloomberg's smug smile as he pronounced Joe Bruno a better majority leader of the state senate than Pedro Espada. Democrat Bill Thompson had already picked the-sometime Democrat Espada as the better of the two. By 3:12 a.m., the Post called it Thompson's "worst moment," describing Bruno as "the steady Republican" without mentioning his current eight-count felony indictment. Espada was acquitted the only time he's been charged w

  October 14, 2009

• Barrett: Just How Strange and Pathetic was Bloomberg's Victory?

  ​The key question coming out of this election is whether Mike Bloomberg got the message. Can he listen to voters he'll never face again? If Bloomberg L.P took a hit like he did Tuesday, wouldn't the company take stock and make real changes? Bloomberg spent $80 million in 2005 and won by 19 percent of the vote. He spent more than a hundred million this year (the final number isn't in yet), and won by 4.6 percent of the vote. Diminishing returns on an investment like that might trigger a c

  November 4, 2009

• The Bloomberg Blowout That Wasn't

  November 10, 2009