5:29 pm Jul. 17, 2012
Tonight
Inside City Hall: Eliot Spitzer, Ed Koch and Alfonse D'Amato discuss Anthony Weiner. And Andrew Kirtzman discusses Rudy Giuliani. [@Mnitzky]
Richard French Live: Republican consultant Jessica Proud is a guest. Topics include Anthony Weiner's possible political future, and Mitt Romney's taxes.
Washington
The Mitt Romney ads featuring Hillary Clinton's comments critical of Obama are, she said, "a waste of money" and "hardly news." [Kristen Lee]
Michelle Bachmann makes some allegations against Anthony Weiner's wife. [Jill Colvin]
NY-13
Adriano Espaillat's campaign posts a video from a voter who describes the trouble she had voting in the race. [Youtube]
City Hall
Three percent more eighth graders passed statewide reading and math exams this year, compared to last year. "[T]his year’s numbers are a stark falloff from the high achievements recorded in 2009, when the Bloomberg administration trumpeted proficiency levels approaching 100 percent as proof that its ambitious education reforms were bearing fruit." [Al Baker]
City Council
Martina Navratilova writes to Christine Quinn about the carriage industry: "'You have a big dyke convention here?' shouted the driver at a small group of women, mostly seniors, who were peacefully leafleting near where the carriages line up. 'Fucking ni**er,' he said to a black woman in the group. How can you support such a scurrilous industry that spouts racist and homophobic vitriol?" [Towleroad]
NYU's expansion plans were approved in committee, 19-1, with a vote of the full City Council on July 25. [Associate Press]
Albany
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is recognized by a national organization which quotes a colleague calling him a "master negotiator." [Joseph Spector]
The William M. Bulger Excellence in State Leadership Award is from the National Conference of State Legislatures and will be presented at their annual conference in Chicago on August. 7. [Saugerties Post Star]
Silver: "I don't use email at all." [Ken Lovett]
Silver has $2.8 million in the bank. [Nick Reisman]
New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman raised $1.1 million in the past six months. [Associated Press]
WNYC explains what the LIBOR scandal is, and why Schneierman's office is looking into it. [Ilya Marritz]
Cuomo signed legislation barring companies that do business in Iran's energy sector from getting contracts with New York State. [VosIzNeias]
Republican state senator Tom Libous spent nearly $30,000 on lawyers after questions were raised about how he helped his son get a job. [Joseph Spector]
