Picking through a Mitt Romney archive
Romney and Ryan. Saint Anselm College via flickr
5:05 pm Aug. 23, 2012
2012
950 pages of Mitt Romney's "tax-dodging, Cayman Island schemes." [John Cook]
Yawn. [Alex Klein]
No bombshells yet. [Melissa Bell]
This is the sort of thing that happens when candidates don't release their tax returns. [Amy Davidson]
Maybe crowdsourcing the stuff will unearth a news nugget. [Josh Voorhees]
Romney sat for an interview with a Denver television station, on the condition they wouldn't ask about abortion or Todd Akin. [Greg Sargent]
Greg Floyd, president of Teamsters Local 237 warns of less government spending and fewer public sector jobs if Romney wins. [Amsterdam News]
The D.C. public water utility is upset with Chuck Schumer for his plan to serve bottled water from New York at the presidential inauguration. [Niels Lesniewski]
2013
"No New York City candidate who fails to support paid family leave should be able to claim the mantle of the women’s vote, let alone receive a glowing endorsement from the pro-choice movement." [Alexis Grenell]
The Post's City Hall bureau chief wonders how many African-American votes John Liu can siphon away from Bill Thompson. [RNNtv]
NY-18
Sean Patrick Maloney: "Hayworth saying she is pro-choice is violence to the English language." [Chris McKenna]
AD-55
DC37 explains why they endorsed William Boyland, who is facing his second federal bribery charge. [Colin Campbell]
SD-21
This anti-Simcha Felder banner is going up on Yiddish Report, VosizNeias, Yeshiva World News, and on Gestner Updates. [SnackTools]
Washington
Rep. Joe Crowley, singing "Call Me Maybe" outside the Today Show. [David Freedlander]
Crowley playfully refuses to confirm or deny it's him. [@RepJoeCrowley]
City Hall
Bloomberg praised one healthy school initiative after nixing plans for another one. [Rachel Cromidas]
Bloomberg said staying at a homeless shelter in New York City is "a much more pleasurable experience" than it used to be. [MIchael Howard Saul]
Albany
Assemblyman Keith Wright's staffer Maurice Cumming is a turnaround story. [Nayaba Arinde]
No Senate Republican was endorsed by the CSEA. [Liz Benjamin]
The Cuomo burger. [Nick Reisman]
City Council
Rachel Maddow inspires Councilwoman Melissa Mark-Viverito to explain, "There is no poop fairy." [mmViverito.com]
Media
The parent company of Gawker, which published more than 950 pages of info about Romney's off-shore accounts, "is based in the Cayman Islands." [Dylan Byers]
Which means Nick Denton will have to release a lot of his records if he runs for president. [@PrimeNewYork]
