Between Christine Quinn and Hilary Rosen, an unusually loud week for quiet SKD Knickerbocker
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10:36 am Apr. 12, 20127
The normally understated and highly influential New York consulting firm, SKD Knickerbocker, whose current and former clients include Barack Obama, Andrew Cuomo, Michael Bloomberg, and the Democratic National Committee, was at the center of two new stories this week.
On Monday, the New York Post reported that the head of the teachers union said City Council Speaker Christine Quinn was politically suspect, because of the fact that she takes guidance from consultants to the mayor and a to a new pro-charter, explicitly anti-teachers-union group.
That was a reference to Josh Isay, one of the firm's managing partners, who knows enough to avoid public attention when he can. Isay is advising Quinn on her planned run for mayor next year; the firm is also advising a StudentsFirstNY, which will be headed by Micah Lasher, Bloomberg's outgoing chief Albany lobbyist and Isay's former business partner.
United Federation of Teachers chief Michael Mulgrew told the Post, "If I’m Chris, I’d be asking myself: Maybe I don’t want to be working with these people who are also working with the mayor to control something that he should have no business controlling anymore."
The second story involving SKD was both less substantial, in terms of what it actually says about anyone's politics, and much bigger, in terms of the attention it has gotten from the national media. That would be the firestorm kicked off by Hilary Rosen, a managing director of the firm's D.C. office, who drew the opprobrium of national Republicans, and defensive admonishments from the White House, when she said that Mitt Romney's stay-at-home wife Ann "has actually never worked a day in her life."
As Steve Kornacki noted, the comment, as ill-advised as it was politically, becomes considerably more boring in context, and more meaningless in light of the fact that Rosen isn't in a position, even indirectly, to be speaking for the Obama campaign.
But Rosen, a working mother of two who feels she has nothing to apologize for, has engaged her critics, who are in turn very happy to keep the story going.
Isay did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the Ann Romney affair.
So you sad human being, you put down mothers and home-makers and it is all for the love of politics. You are going to be sorry someday when you understand what you said about homemakers and moms. There should be more mothers who choose to have children understand that they have made a choice and they should if possible stay home and rear them. You are dragging down our families. Are you sure you are a women or just a working person who wants to be a man...or worse better than a man.....yes I am angry and I am NOT ALONE.
o you sad human being, you put down mothers and home-makers and it is all for the love of politics. You are going to be sorry someday when you understand what you said about homemakers and moms. There should be more mothers who choose to have children understand that they have made a choice and they should if possible stay home and rear them. You are dragging down our families. Are you sure you are a women or just a working person who wants to be a man...or worse better than a man.....yes I am angry and I am NOT ALONE.
Hilary Rosen is one of the best, if not the best, democratic strategist. She does not have to apologize to Ann Romney or anyone for her statement on Mitt Romneys assertion about his wife's role in the campaign. . What she said was entirely factual; there is a difference between undertaking domestic and family responsibility and the concept of being "gainfully employed". The comments by Axelrod and Carney should not be taken seriously. They are the least articulate members of the Obama re-election campaign and should be replaced with people of the caliber of Hilary Rosen. The party is fully behind Hilary Rosen. Go girl go!
Hilary Rosen is one of the best, if not the best, democratic strategist. She does not have to apologize to Ann Romney or anyone for her statement on Mitt Romneys assertion about his wife's role in the campaign. . What she said was entirely factual; there is a difference between undertaking domestic and family responsibility and the concept of being "gainfully employed". The comments by Axelrod and Carney should not be taken seriously. They are the least articulate members of the Obama re-election campaign and should be replaced with people of the caliber of Hilary Rosen. The party is fully behind Hilary Rosen. Go girl go!
Ignorance can strike at any educational level as Hillary Rosen has proven. The question is whether Obama has the integrity to get rid of her. I say not.
Hilary Rosen is beaten by the right and the left for speaking her mind. I have great respect for "stay home" mom, but the truth needs to be told. There are millions of women in America who get up every morning get the kids ready for school, report to a work place (put up with work stress, worrying about paying the next bills and so on...) get back home in the evening after a long day at work and still do all the things that a stay home mom do (get diner ready for the kids, homework, play time etc....) This is what Hilary was talking about and all you so "expert" know that. I support you Hilary and please keep doing what you do. May God the United States of America and all the mom around the world.
the story states that skd knickerbocker's "current and former clients include barack obama, andrew cuomo, michael bloomberg and the democratic national commitee". do the CURRENT CLIENTS include barack obama and/or the democratic national commitee? is it true that she has visited the white house more than thirty times since president obama has been elected? the president called her a "paid commentor for cnn". is she also paid by the dnc? is she also paid by the president?