Howard Wolfson
Bloomberg's war on the N.R.A. versus Schumer's majority
"The N.R.A. is going down," according to the cover of the new New Republic.
The story, by Alec MacGillis, gives considerable credit for the National Rifle Association's impending demise to Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the vast resources he's preparing to deploy on behalf of new gun laws. More
(3)Starting soon: Weiner-Wolfson, Round 2
In a supplement to his story this morning about former Hillary Clinton aides taking a pre-emptive pass on 2016, Jason Horowitz has an online addition that details how Howard Wolfson was converted from a critic of Mayor Michael Bloomberg to one of his most trusted advisers. More
Dear Josh: A public-private sparring match between Thompson and Quinn strategists
At 2:30 this afternoon, Bill Thompson's lead consultant, Jonathan Prince, wrote: More
At a tightly coiled Citi Bike announcement, more questions than answers
Today, the Bloomberg administration summoned reporters to Brooklyn for a bike share announcement, but declined to say precisely when the bike share program would be launching. More
(1)Polls aside, Bloomberg's bike lanes are at the mercy of his successor
The cast of candidates running for mayor this year is less friendly to bike lanes than Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and it's taking some getting used to for cycling advocates.
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Wolfson's contextualizing response to the 2013 field, in context
While Mayor Michael Bloomberg's performance during and after Hurricane Sandy was being summarily trashed by most of the participants in a candidate forum last night, the mayor's top aide, Howard Wolfson took to Twitter to respond. More
(2)Visions of Michael Mulgrew, magnified
The Post and the News editorial pages agree today that a teachers-union-backed proposal to place a moratorium on school closings and charter-school co-locations is a bad idea. More
(4)Bloomberg's limited-engagement hurricane tour
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a proud technocrat, has never embraced the "comforter in chief" aspect of his job during his decade in office. More
Bloomberg super PAC's first recipients: Dan Maffei and Val Demings
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's new super PAC made its first expenditures late yesterday, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission.
The Independence USA PAC spent a total of $94,000 on two House candidates: Val Demings in Florida, and New York's own Dan Maffei. More
Howard Wolfson, nonpartisan operative, on last night's debate
Howard Wolfson, the Democratic operative-turned-deputy mayor-turned-independent operative, said it wasn't surprising to see President Obama and Mitt Romney abandon a discussion of foreign policy for their preferred domestic talking points last night. More
Bloomberg's super PAC as test-run: 'I'll be freer to do more in a couple of years'
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said today that his new super PAC's involvement in this year's election as something of a test run for his post-mayoral ambitions.
"We'll win some races, we'll lose some of these, but it's sort of to get our feet wet," he said during his regular Friday morning radio show appearance. "And then two years from now, when I don't have to worry about just what's good for New York City—I'm gonna live here the rest of my life, my kids are gonna live here, I'm gonna live in New York State, I'm gonna live in America, so I care about all these levels of government—but I'll be freer to do more in a couple of years." More
Bloomberg criticized for violating the 'spirit' of campaign finance rules in 2009
The New York City Campaign Finance Board said today that Mayor Michael Bloomberg "contravened the spirit of disclosure" underlying city campaign finance rules, even if he didn't violate the letter of the law, when he gave a personal donation of more than a million dollars to the New York State Independence Party but did not immediately report it as a campaign expenditure. More
What Bloomberg is empowering Howard Wolfson to do now, and maybe later
A year from today, Michael Bloomberg's mayoralty will be running on fumes. More
(1)Bloomberg wants to shape national politics, whoever's president in 2013
The one race he won't be spending his money on, though, is the presidential race, according to Howard Wolfson, the City Hall aide who will take a leave of absence to run Bloomberg's Independence PAC. More
Awaiting a blast from City Hall as another 2013 candidate questions stop-and-frisk
When Public Advocate Bill de Blasio proposed that the NYPD be made to account more closely for its use of stop-and-frisk as a crime-fighting tool, he received a short, sharp rebuke from top Bloomberg aide Howard Wolfson, who suggested de Blasio was trying to return New York to a time when there were more than 2,000 murders a year.
That's roughly how many there were during the Dinkins administration, in which de Blasio served as a not-particularly prominent aide. More
