Reid Pillifant

Presenting a new-and-improved Anthony Weiner, as rivals prepare for the old version :

Anthony Weiner announced his mayoral campaign very early this morning with a slick two-minute video that ends on his family's old stoop in Park Slope.

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.

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Fox News host to Wayne LaPierre: 'You take something that is here, and you say it's going to go all the way over there' http://t.co/Xcr3itQ7
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Schumer: 'It's not an accident that neither AIPAC, nor A.D.L., nor the A.J.C. has come out against Hagel' http://t.co/pIBEWxwA
Tweeted on February 4th, 2013 12:22pm
 
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.@ChuckSchumer reaffirms support for Hagel, despite the poor articulation http://t.co/2ahJYS8c
Tweeted on February 4th, 2013 12:17pm
 
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Republican Texas and the special case of Hillary Clinton

According to that poll last week showing that Hillary Clinton could carry Texas, 50 percent of voters there have a favorable opinion of her, and only 43 percent have a negative one. More

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on February 4th, 2013 12:05pm

 
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Schumer reaffirms support for Hagel, despite the poor articulation

"He stuck by his answers. He didn't change any of the answers he gave to me. He just didn't articulate them that well, that day. But, so be it." More

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on February 4th, 2013 11:59am

 
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'And as he told the story of Steven McDonald, [Koch] burst into tears.' http://t.co/ULMNeWB0
Tweeted on February 4th, 2013 11:20am
 
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Sunday shows: Harry Reid calls Wayne LaPierre 'extremely pleasant,' while a Fox host calls him 'ridiculous'

On Sunday morning, Wayne LaPierre came in for better treatment from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid than he did from Fox News' Chris Wallace.

"He's always been extremely pleasant to me," said Reid, who received some similarly kind words from LaPierre during his tough 2010 re-election campaign. "We have a good relationship. So I am not here to demean the organization." More

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on February 3rd, 2013 5:15pm

 
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Great profile of Phil Simms, who will be the 'twangy, nasal, assertive, and urgent' voice of the Super Bowl http://t.co/AfD3g2Ht
Tweeted on February 2nd, 2013 3:43pm
 
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'Mr. Allon still has regrets about how he treated "Zero Dark Thirty" screenwriter and co-producer Mark Boal' http://t.co/e7TEVTl0
Tweeted on February 1st, 2013 2:47pm
 
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Ed Koch, the newspaper columnist http://t.co/Ld4Tr9nW
Tweeted on February 1st, 2013 2:04pm
 

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  • grynbaumgrynbaum: @reidpillifant I hear this pig already has its own 2013 exploratory committee.
  • howiewolfhowiewolf: Proud to be an alum “@reidpillifant: Nice map from @marcatracy of the Schumer diaspora http://t.co/tB7MAk0P”
  • GregHanlonGregHanlon: @reidpillifant on Koch, Mayor & movie: "Something classically Koch about the fact that his last act was to upstage it." http://t.co/lLlm1C4f
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  • aaronshortstoryaaronshortstory: @reidpillifant I don't think Nadler's face should be on it. Why not Tyrone Biggums?
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