Today Crain’s hosted a candidate forum featuring five Republican mayoral candidates; Tom Allon, Adolfo Carrion, John Catsimatidis, Joe Lhota and George McDonald.
Here’s a brief “horse race” analysis of how they each helped or harmed their candidacies:
Are you an aspiring politician in need of guidance on getting the most out of parades? Are you a current officeholder who leaves parades feeling low? Take a lesson from a Parade Pro; watch Senator Chuck Schumer in action. (Hint: He’s the guy with the bullhorn.)
On Saturday, Mayor Bloomberg marched in the Rockaway St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Watch this Report from Rockaway to see the reception he received.
Be sure to also watch our report from Belle Harbor, showing the current state of the beach and a patron saint of beach protection, and our look at Senator Chuck Schumer’s parade day.
The Community Free Democrats, an Upper West Side political club, hosted a candidate forum for the four Democratic candidates for Public Advocate. Here’s what happened when an unwanted visitor arrived.
Updated: Our report on the rest of the forum will be is posted herelater today.
Republican mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis and Assembly Member Nicole Malliotakis held a press conference today to criticize the MTA and it’s scheduled increase of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge toll.
In this report, we cover what Catsimatidis had to say about some of his rivals, including one who was chairman of the MTA, and his suggestion as to how two of those rivals could help the Republican Party.
We’ll have more about their press conference in a later report.
In our Mayoral Mashup we talk with voters, as well as political and policy leaders, about what they see as the most important issue facing New York City’s next mayor.
For this Mayoral Mashup we spoke with Rockaway voters participating in the 31st Council District special election and asked one simple question: What do you see as the most important issue that our next mayor will face upon taking office? Watch to find out what they had to say.
You can watch previous Mayoral Mashups here (with voters at a mayoral candidate forum) and here (with Dick Ravitch).
Today we spoke with Senator James Sanders about the race to succeed him in the 31st Council District. We spoke with him outside of a polling place on Beach 51st Street in Edgemere.
As the Republican mayoral primary heats up, the candidates face a fundamental challenge: finding their primary voters in overwhelmingly Democratic New York City. To develop a more detailed understanding of the Republican search for primary voters, we’ve been doing some analysis of voter registration and voter activity (as well as answering candidate robocalls). This first step in our analysis focuses on registered voters. We will discuss voting patterns, likely voters and turnout in a later post.
As he was about to begin a press conference this morning (focused on expanding vocational education programs), John Catsimatidis previewed a possible new campaign slogan. Perhaps he was responding to a critical review of other mayoral candidates campaign logo’s. Or, perhaps he just likes campaigning.
As we noted last week here at NYTrue.com, he has already adapted well to the new 140 character universe.
Update #2: I received an email this evening from the Catsimatidis campaign advising that the twitter handle I referenced in item 1) below “is not affiliated” with the Catsimatidis campaign. I’ve therefor deleted item 1). I understand that @Jcats2013 remains as the campaign’s twitter handle. My apologies for any confusion.
Updates:
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2) It is interesting that the candidate formerly known as John Catsimatidis chose to reveal his new persona to leading political reporter Azi Paybarah. Both of them have recently undergone life changing Twitter-shorteningsTwitter-trimmings. They also crossed paths in a previous NYTrue.com special feature.
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