Election Watch 2018
Audio: A Closer Look at the LLC Loophole
City Limits |
Where the money has gone, where it has come from and the prospects for reform.
Where the money has gone, where it has come from and the prospects for reform.
Offensive flyers, bridges that officially open but don’t really open and a mayor who won’t decide. Jarrett Murphy helps break it down on the Brian Lehrer Show.
Kathy Hochul discussed her potential role as a tie-breaker in the split Senate, the Cuomo effect on her hometown of Buffalo and why she thinks her primary race is a distraction.
‘Cuomo faces a stark choice: he can either keep doing the bidding of landlords, or he can finally stand up for tenants, helping us stay in New York, the place we love and call home.’
The mayor quite conceivably can limp along through the next 3.5 years as a large but very lame duck, responding only to the headlines while plotting out his future plans. There’s still ample time for the mayor to push a big-ticket agenda, however.
New York’s Republicans know the face they want to show to voters in November, while the state’s Democrats are going to spend the next 111 days figuring out who they are.
At-Risk Community Services, the nonprofit advising the Citywide Council of Presidents in its dealings with the mayor, Council and governor, was only founded in November. But its parent organization has trod a long and successful—if occasionally bumpy—road.
Councilmember Joseph Borelli, who represents the southern tip of Staten Island, is one of just three Republicans on 51-member the City Council.
She says she’s not picked a candidate yet in the gubernatorial primary, but is effusive in her praise of the governor, She also says her ‘No. 1 focus’ is her current job, although she is raising money to run in three years for a different one.
He didn’t break it. But he took responsibility for getting it fixed.