election
PolitiStat: The Numbers Behind New York City’s 2017 Municipal Election
City Limits |
Our daily look at the municipal math of New York’s election season.
CITY WIRE: THE BLOG
De Blasio Dishes Out Policy, Malliotakis Wants Travel Costs: Campaign Newswire for July 20
City Limits |
If policy reports are your thing, Wednesday was your day: The de Blasio administration released no fewer than three major policy documents over the course of the day. And in other news …
CITY WIRE: THE BLOG
Campaign 2017 Newswire for July 19, 2017
City Limits |
Politics and policy news from the five boroughs.
campaign 2017
Who’s Who in the Contested City Council Races
City Limits |
It’s a quiet election year so far—but not for the candidates involved in these races. A guide for voters and political junkies.
Election 2017
Max & Murphy: De Blasio Press Secretary Eric Phillips on the Media and His Boss
Jarrett Murphy |
‘If I could program him as a robot every morning at Gracie Mansion and wind him up and send him out on his day dealing with the press and he would be thoughtful and smart and polite and kind and funny and jovial and smooth and all of those things, of course I would. But he’s a human.’
Budget
Next 100 Days: In the Era of Trump, NYS is Out of Step and In the Crosshairs
Adam Wisnieski |
New York City’s values have perhaps never been further from the national agenda being pushed by President Trump and the GOP-controlled Congress.
campaign 2017
Advocates Hope That Food Issues Will Find a Place on City’s Campaign Table
Kate Pastor |
Advocates hope access to healthy food, expanding school breakfast and ways to address hunger and the forces that drive it are issues that candidates for city office will be forced to discuss between now and Election Day.
Multimedia
Max & Murphy: Sizing Up Campaign 2017
Jarrett Murphy |
The races to watch, the mayoral hopefuls’ hopes and the key questions about hot dogs and superheroes are all on the table when Gotham Gazette’s Ben Max and Jarrett Murphy of City Limits get together and press ‘record.’
Bronx
Max & Murphy: The Mayor, the Money, the Borough Where it’s Sunny
Jarrett Murphy |
City Limits and Gotham Gazette put aside their long and sometimes violent rivalry to discuss Mayor de Blasio’s relationship with the press, money in the 2017 campaign, and the upcoming weeklong City Hall in the Bronx.
campaign fundraising
No BackSpace: It’s the Incessant Fundraising, Stupid (Why Big Money Dooms Democrats)
Joel Berg |
‘Campaigning and governing is now indistinguishable from fundraising. The vast majority of e-mails and letters that I now receive from elected officials are either thinly veiled fundraising pitches or overt ones. The last e-mail I received from Obama as President was a fundraising pitch.’
