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Those recent wallet-busting lunch bills at Nello (Mikhail Prokhorov is said to have spent almost $19,000 and Jay-Z is said to have dropped $1,700 ) were small change compared to the $47,221 that Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich blew, according to a TMZ item that has now been removed. ("I'm not impressed. I'm happy," Nello Balan told the Post . "The only thing that would impress me...
New York's accidental governor, David Paterson - he of the one good eye, primarily used to keep a look-out for potential mistresses - made the national news back in September when the Kingmaker himself, Barack Obama, told him to step off in 2010 : National Democratic Party leaders have asked Gov. David Paterson to consider withdrawing from the 2010 governor's race, according to two senior New York...
He may have murdered 20 million people, but good PR can change anything! A state news agency is approaching big firms to "rewrite history." No word yet on whether the team behind Eliot Spitzer are...
He may have murdered 20 million people, but good PR can change anything! A state news agency is approaching big firms to "rewrite history." No word yet on whether the team behind Eliot Spitzer are...
RealClearMarkets has an interesting interview with Charlie Gasparino regarding his new book "The Sellout." There seems to be a consensus forming that something has gone seriously wrong with the US republic, and that the Obama administration is failing to address it, failing badly. One has to wonder what it will take to give Washington a wakeup call. It seems that, when confronted by white...
Almost exactly one year before the 2010 election, Gov. David Paterson is making the highly unusual move of going up on the air with two political TV ads. I reported two weeks ago (second item in the Oct. 26 column) that Paterson was mulling this as a last-ditch effort to raise his poll numbers from their historically low depths. Ben reported the ads are being made by Murphy Putnam , not A-Political,...
In what may seem like an amusing joke, a disgraced politician who resigned amid a headline-grabbing hooker scandal is speaking about government ethics at a prestigious Ivy League University this month. Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who left public office in shame after being exposed as a regular client of a high-end prostitution ring, will lecture about ethics in government next week at...
Gawker Matt Zimmerman told Eliot Spitzer 's communication director, Christine Anderson : "If you ever want to get back into TV (and not ABC!) let me know and I can see about openings here." John Cook writes: "The casualness with which he made the offer" -- made while trying to arrange an interview with Spitzer -- "speaks volumes about the relationships between flacks and --...
For our next installment of the Spitzer Files—our collection of e-mails between flacks and reporters during Eliot Spitzer's downfall—we bring you the tale of the Today producer who...
Wow! This is fun. Look: here. At the Gothamist, they are releasing batches of e-mails, uncovered through the FOIL process, of reporters communicating with press people for Governor Eliot Spitzer and for (now Governor) David Paterson. The e-mails cover the transition time – with the Eliot Spitzer scandal gradually being revealed, and David Paterson wading through reporters’ [...]
HARVARD UNIVERSITY EDMOND J. SAFRA FOUNDATION CENTER FOR ETHICS Eliot Spitzer, former Governor and Attorney General of New York, will deliver a public lecture as part of the 2009/10 Labs Lectures on the Question of Institutional Corruption. Thursday, November 12 at 4:30pm Emerson Hall, Room 105 25 Quincy Street, Cambridge This is a ticketed event. Tickets are free and can be obtained in person at the...
New York – David Paterson is the fourth African American and only the second legally blind governor in U.S. history. The son of former New York Secretary of State Basil Paterson, he spent 20 years in New York’s state senate before being chosen as Eliot Spitzer’s running mate for the 2006 New York gubernatorial election. [...]
The New York Times may have broken the news that Eliot Spitzer had a prostitute problem, but it was awfully nice to Spitzer’s staff amid the scandal. Gawker used New York’s open records law to snag a huge number of emails between reporters and Spitzer’s people, and discovered that the...
As far as 2010 is concerned, the person who benefitted the most from last night's results wasn't even on the ballot: AG Andrew Cuomo. "Cuomo came out of this a major winner," said Democratic consultant Hank Sheinkopf (who worked for Mayor Bloomberg during this campaign, but didn't want to chat on the record about that). "He did nothing overtly political during the season, but he endorsed...
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