Rangel: Weiner won't have a 'serious impact' on mayor's race:
Rep. Charlie Rangel, the dean of New York's congressional delegation and a former colleague of Anthony Weiner, downplayed Weiner's potential impact on the mayor's race today in an appearance on MSNBC.
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.
How serious is Michael Bloomberg about acting as a counterweight to the National Rifle Association? More
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on April 15th, 2013 11:31am"Saturday Night Live" opened with the Joe Manchin-Pat Toomey background check compromise this weekend, siding more with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's opinion that the agreement was "not significant," than with Sen. Chuck Schumer and Mayor Michael Bloomberg's insistence that the deal is a breakthrough. More
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on April 14th, 2013 6:46pmChuck Schumer offered a predictably brief answer to a question about Anthony Weiner this morning.
"It's much, much too early to talk about that," said Schumer, when asked about the possibility of his former aide entering the mayor's race, after a press conference on new federal help for Hurricane Sandy victims.
Asking if he had had conversations with Weiner about it, Schumer said, "I'm just not going to talk about the mayor's race." More
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on April 12th, 2013 1:30pmIt took a full ten minutes, but eventually Michael Bloomberg was asked, during the off-topic portion of his press conference this morning, if he wanted to say anything about the possibility that Anthony Weiner might run to succeed him.
"No," he said. "He's got to decide whether he wants to run or not." More
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on April 11th, 2013 3:41pmAround the same time the U.S. Senate voted this morning to begin debate on a new package of gun laws, Mayor Michael Bloomberg was aggressively defending the bipartisan deal on background checks unveiled yesterday by senators Pat Toomey and Joe Manchin. More
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on April 11th, 2013 2:04pmAfter being banned from the press conference this morning, Sen. Chuck Schumer celebrated the news of a break-through deal on expanding background checks for gun purchases in a brief conference call with local reporters.
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on April 10th, 2013 5:30pm"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
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on April 10th, 2013 4:01pmAnthony Weiner may have come out OK in the New York Times magazine's big profile of him this morning, but Rep. Peter King certainly didn't. More
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on April 10th, 2013 12:11pmAfter a speech to the Association for a Better New York this morning, John Liu took a couple of questions about this morning's big New York Times Magazine story, which floats the possibility Anthony Weiner might enter the mayor's race after all.
"If Anthony wants to be mayor, he should run," said Liu. More
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on April 10th, 2013 10:52amAfter promising last week to use the arrest of three public officials as an opportunity to enact legislative changes, Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a new "Public Trust Act" at a press conference in his Midtown office this afternoon. More
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on April 9th, 2013 3:27pm
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Vilkomerson: @reidpillifant @RogerClark41 And an excellent jukebox.
aaronshortstory: @reidpillifant I don't think Nadler's face should be on it. Why not Tyrone Biggums?
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