Marco Rubio booked for the Council on Foreign Relations:
Marco Rubio will be in New York City next Thursday, May 31 for a "conversation" at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Bio: Reid Pillifant is a political reporter for Capital. He was previously an editor and reporter at the New York Observer. Contact him at reid[at]capitalnewyork.com.
Marco Rubio will be in New York City next Thursday, May 31 for a "conversation" at the Council on Foreign Relations. More
Posted on May 23rd, 2012 5:22pm
After hinting at an endorsement on Fred Dicker's show this morning, Representative Bob Turner officially announced the support of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani in a press release this afternoon.
"Bob Turner is the definition of a citizen legislator who took his lifelong business experience to Washington," Giuliani said in the statement. More
Posted on May 23rd, 2012 1:56pm
The American Conservatives Union endorsed Wendy Long this morning in the Republican primary to challenge Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.
In a statement emailed by the Long campaign, the ACU's chairman, Al Cardenas, calls Long "the strong choice for conservatives," owing to her "long record of work and support for conservative principles." More
Posted on May 23rd, 2012 11:00am
Earlier this week, I wrote about Kirsten Gillibrand's newfound role as a valued endorser of local Democratic candidates and officials.
This morning comes a report that her colleagues in the Senate might be trying to recruit her to boost them too. Citing an anonymous Senate aide, The Hill reports that Gillibrand is being discussed as a possible chair for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in 2014. More
Posted on May 23rd, 2012 10:45am
According to Representative Jerry Nadler, Democrats who are alarmed by the Obama campaign's attacks on private equity are "misunderstanding" the message. More
Posted on May 22nd, 2012 6:03pm
The super PAC backing President Obama reacted to a new ad from Karl Rove's super PAC, Crossroads GPS, by criticizing its use of a fictional character struggling through the economic recession.
"In our ads, we portray real life stories of Americans who were devastated by the decisions Mitt Romney made," said Bill Burton, the founder of Priorities USA Action, in a statement.
The Crossroads ad, which earned a long preview in the New York Times this morning, features a woman watching her kids play basketball, who then morphs into an old woman talking about how her kids moved back home because they couldn't find a job. More
Posted on May 22nd, 2012 2:08pm
After very publicly sandbagging the Obama campaign's initial attacks on Bain Capital, financier and former administration car czar Steven Rattner said this morning that he thinks the president has struck the right tone on the relevance of Mitt Romney's business experience. More
Posted on May 22nd, 2012 11:47am
President Obama's super PAC is still struggling to raise money, and nowhere is it more conspicuous than in New York.
According to the latest F.E.C. filings, Priorities USA Action raised just over $1.5 million in April, which included $1 million from the National Air Traffic Controllers Association.
Donors from across New York State gave a grand total of $12,500 last month. More
Posted on May 21st, 2012 5:53pm
The anti-incumbent super PAC that's targeting Charlie Rangel is now soliciting small-dollar donations for its campaign to unseat the 42-year incumbent.
"Perhaps no single incumbent politician deserves to be fired more than the ethically-challenged Rangel," wrote Eric O'Keefe, the co-chairman of the Campaign for Primary Accountability in an email to supporters this morning. More
Posted on May 21st, 2012 3:10pm
When Nydia Velazquez decided she needed a big show of support during her first tough primary in years, she called on Kirsten Gillibrand.
This morning, returning a favor from a few years ago, Gillibrand served as the headliner at a rainy endorsement press conference for Velazquez on the steps of City Hall. More
Posted on May 21st, 2012 12:16pm
katie_honan: @reidpillifant, "I realized this team wanted me to be a coach, and work well with players, and that's not the environment I signed up for."
A_Grossman: @reidpillifant @CityAndStateNY Upstate: where nobody knows your name. Also, I agree. Accurate description.
jasondhorowitz: @reidpillifant sees Schumer http://t.co/s9KsznQA quite comfortable with the vanishing of health care as a political issue
bcolbyhamilton: .@reidpillifant She's got the Brit New Wave vote locked up!
andyjayhawk: @reidpillifant damn, how many Twitter handles does Turner have? @TurnerforNY, @USRepBobTurner and now @NYforBob.andyjayhawk: @reidpillifant pretty social media savvy for a 70-year-old guy from Rockaway
riceid: @reidpillifant I didn't realize you commuted from Kentuckyandyjayhawk: @reidpillifant @freedlander I think you guys are confusing "being meta" with "being bored"
