webcastr (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bill Thompson says he's not bitter about his narrow loss to Mayor Mike Bloomberg, but he does feel his multi-million dollar campaign "distorted" his record.
The Daily Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bill Thompson's boosters have suggested he earned the right to run for statewide office if he so chooses because his closer-than-expected challenge to Mayor Bloomberg might have gone the other way had he enjoyed more enthusiastic Democratic support. State Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs isn't buying it. "Politics doesn't work that way," Jacobs told me during a wide-ranging...
T Jantunen.com (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Bill Thompson doesn’t want to see the online commons enclosed by private interests. "I recently had an opportunity to re-read a pamphlet I wrote in 2000 for a series on new thinking about mutualism published by the Co-operative Party. In e-mutualism, or the tragedy of the dot.commons I talked at length about the co-operative basis of [...]
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Photograph of Thompson at a mayoral debate from the AP After his surprisingly competitive mayoral bid against Mayor Bloomberg, there have been various rumors about what City Comptroller Bill Thompson might do next. First there were murmurs of a Senate run , and then ones that Andrew Cuomo was eyeing him as a running mate during for his gubernatorial campaign. Now the NY Times...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Unelected Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand -- aka, Chuck Schumer's hand-puppet -- thought her protector had scared off all potential 2010 primary challengers. Well, here comes Bill Thompson. The city comptroller, who lost a surprisingly close race to M...
NYC Educator (Free subscription) | yesterday
Well, it's time to wake up and bask in the glow of our accomplishments. Last summer, Randi Weingarten offered an endorsement of mayoral control, with a few tepid suggestions for changes that we never saw. Of course, with Ms. Weingarten's quasi-endorsement, the measure eventually sailed through. Then Mayor-for-life Bloomberg managed to get the UFT to sit out the election, leaving Bill Thompson...
The Daily Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
A veteran Democratic activist who lives in Midtown Manhattan reports receiving the Harold Ford Jr.-vs.-Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand call in the middle of last week and was able to provide a bit more information. According to this Democrat, who asked to remain anonymous, Ford was not the only potential Gillibrand opponent mentioned on the call. Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and outgoing Comptroller Bill...
news | OS | http://www.ocala.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bill Thompson Staff writer Marion County commissioners on Monday unanimously adopted their newly rewritten growth-management strategy, launching what the county's top planner heralded as a “totally new direction” in guiding how the community will grow over the next 25 years.
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday
... include the typically robust bonuses he doles out to campaign workers. So it's still growing! Bill Thompson's campaign hasn't yet released the total it spent, but the number is expected to be in the neighborhood of $10 million. Supporters of campaign finance reform have already pounced on the Bloomberg numbers calling them "beyond embarrassing." Howard Wolfson, the mayor's...
news | OS | http://www.ocala.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Bill Thompson Staff writer A state lawmaker hopes to bring a panel of his colleagues investigating the well-being of the state's internal waterways, including Silver and Rainbow springs in Marion County, to the Ocala area in the coming weeks.
The Hotline on Call (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg (I) spent at least $102M of his own fortune on his successful -- if underwhelming -- bid for a third term, according to a report filed 11/27 with the city's Campaign Finance Board. Bloomberg's spending is a record for a self-financed campaign for any public office in the U.S.; he spent roughly $174 for each of the 585K votes he received in defeating Comp. Bill Thompson...
news | OS | http://www.ocala.com (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
By Bill Thompson Staff writer The Confederate war monument likely would be too big and overwhelming to fit at the county's veterans park and might be considered an undervalued historical asset in its current location at the Marion County Courthouse. So now the county administrator has proposed a third option: placing the statue outside the county's historical museum.
Library Stuff (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
BBC – “Bill Thompson doesn’t want to see the online commons enclosed by private interests.”
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
In his race for a third term, the richest man in New York City spent an astounding $102 million of his $17 billion fortune. New filings reveal that Mayor Bloomberg shelled out about $174.53 per vote in his narrower-than-expected victory over Democratic challenger Bill Thompson, far exceeding his expenditures of $85 million in 2005 and $74 million in 2001, according to the Times . Much...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
... spend whatever he wanted as long as he filed expense reports. By contrast, his challenger William Thompson Jr. will probably have spent $9 million on his first mayoral bid when all the bills have been paid. Thompson relied on donations and matching funds. His filing is expected Monday. Bloomberg had been widely predicted to win easily over his Democrat rival. But his push to...
