Christine Quinn
Everyone knows Anthony Weiner, and that's his problem
Most candidates become better known as a campaign progresses. More
Quinn announces female support, gets pelted with questions about Weiner
Most of the questions from reporters, though, was about Anthony Weiner, the former congressman who resigned his seat in 2011 because of a sexting scandal involving a variety of women.
Should women not vote for him because of the scandal? What did you make of his second-place finish in the poll? Should he even be running for mayor? At one point, Times reporter Michael Grynbaum asked Quinn if, during her walk-and-talk tours throughout the city, she's gotten a sense from New Yorkers about whether Weiner should return to politics. More
A good showing for Weiner that may be as good as it gets
A new WNBC-Marist poll shows Anthony Weiner still has a base of support among Democratic voters and indicates that the nomination will get settled in a run-off if he runs. More
A new poll puts non-candidate Anthony Weiner in second place
If former congressman Anthony Weiner were a mayoral candidate, he'd have more Democratic support than any primary contender other than City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, according to an NBC New York Marist poll. More
Quinn may have dropped, but her biggest early rival is still 'don't know'
The news, such as it is, emerging from yesterday's Quinnipiac University poll of the Democratic mayoral primary is that support for the front-runner, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, dropped five percentage points. More
Liu makes inroads with Muslim voters, but it's not much of a contest
More on John Liu's unexpected inroads with Muslim voters. More
What's the matter with Bill de Blasio?
Despite being organized labor's mayoral candidate, in theory, Bill de Blasio hasn't actually received any formal union support. More
An invitation to support Vito Lopez's run for Council
Here's an invitation to the April 18th fund-raiser for Vito Lopez, the Assemblyman who was stripped of his seniority and much of his staff after he was accused of sexually harassing several former staffers. More
(1)Politics by other means with Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain isn't really paying attention yet to the mayor's race ("Who's running—is it Quinn?"), but the recently announced allegations of "rampant" corruption in New York are, to him, a big deal. More
(4)At John Jay, Thompson explains non-support of a police-oversight proposal
Hours after a Quinnipiac University poll was released showing a majority of New Yorkers supporting the creation of an inspector general for the New York Police Department, Democratic mayoral candidate Bill Thompson unveiled his public safety platform. More
The one-hour-maximum commute, and other big transit ideas from Christine Quinn
"Today I'm setting a clear goal," said Council Speaker Christine Quinn. "By the year 2023, not a single New Yorker should ahve to spend more than an hour commuting in either direction." More
Liu runs left of de Blasio, even when his audience doesn't want to hear it
"In my humble opinion, we've got to stop holding ourselves hostage to the idea that we can't make policies that piss off the rich people or drive big corporations away," John Liu told the Association for a Better New York this morning at the Roosevelt Hotel. More
'Come on in': Early reactions to Anthony Weiner's big confession
Most of the on-the-record commentary about Anthony Weiner's interest in running for mayor is more positive than I would have expected, but far from welcoming. The real conversation happening now is among the active Democratic mayoral candidates who are trying to convince reporters that Weiner's return is good for their candidate, and bad for someone else.
Weiner would be one more man in a primary that already has four of them running against one women. He's also from Brooklyn, like two of the other candidates. And he's popular among the far left crowd who, arguably, were never really behind the front-runner, Christine Quinn, anyway.
A rich candidate opts out of a Coney Island race to form a PAC instead
A wealthy 27-year-old from a prominent real estate family has decided not to run for an open City Council seat in Coney Island, and will instead open a political action committee focusing on small businesses in order to shape the agenda in races around the city, according to a person with first-hand knowledge of the plans. More
Anthony Weiner wants back in, as Christine Quinn's lead shrinks
Is there room for Anthony Weiner in the New York City mayor's race? More
(1)
