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Room Eight (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
During this year’s final mayoral debate, Bill Thompson was said by the local commentariat to have made two grievous errors, which were only not said to be fatal in and of themselves because his candidacy was pronounced by the same wise-men to be in a state of extremis, for which the local press had already administered the rite of extreme unction. Now, in light of the fact that...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Repudiating his own campaign theme, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday praised Comptroller Bill Thompson as someone "who's really tried to make this city better" and who has based his decisions on facts, not politics. When he was running against Thompson, ...
The Daily Politics (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
In the end, according to Comptroller Bill Thompson, it all came down to cash. During an interview on WPIX Channel 11 this morning , Thompson suggested the only reason he lost to Mayor Bloomberg was because he was vastly outspent by the self-funding billionaire. So, the problem wasn't a lack of Democratic support, or campaign missteps or even a lack of fire in the belly from which...
popular logistics (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The [$34 million] the city wants to spend on [the Brooklyn House of Detention design] contract would be better used as a means to reduce class sizes and build more schools. - William Thompson November 19, 2009, Press Release, YouTube, Gotham Schools Part I. Bill Thompson: "Schools not Prisons" On November 19, 2009, Comptroller of the City of [...]
popular logistics (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Behind Oz's Curtain of 'Law and Order.' The [$34 million] the city wants to spend on [the Brooklyn House of Detention design] contract would be better used as a means to reduce class sizes and build more schools. - William Thompson November 19, 2009, Press Release Part I. Bill Thompson: Schools not Prisons On November 19, 2009, Comptroller [...]
The Daily Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
... (R), former Gov. George Pataki (R), former Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford (D), outgoing Comptroller Bill Thompson (D), Larchmont Mayor Liz Feld (R). Feld advisor Bill O'Reilly sent the following statement from the mayor: "I am actively considering a run for the United States Senate and expect to make a final decision sooner rather than later. The ever-growing debt coming out...
news | OS | http://www.ocala.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Bill Thompson Staff writer Randy Highsmith drove roughly 80 miles, spent the night in a parking lot hunkered down in a sleeping bag and waited more than an hour with several hundred people as storm clouds gathered overhead - all just to spend just a few seconds in the presence of his icon.
Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Washington – He wouldn’t share a stage with fellow Democrat Bill Thompson, but President Obama invited Thompson’s campaign rival, Mayor Bloomberg, to attend a White House state dinner tonight. The coveted invitation to the black-tie affair, in honor of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, comes less than a month after Bloomberg beat Thompson by a surprisingly...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
He wouldn't share a stage with fellow Democrat Bill Thompson, but President Obama invited Thompson's campaign rival, Mayor Bloomberg, to attend a White House state dinner tonight. The coveted invitation to the black-tie affair, in honor of Indian ...
news | OS | http://www.ocala.com (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
by Bill Thompson Staff Writer THE VILLAGES - Sarah Palin took her "Going Rogue" book tour to the biggest of the battleground states Tuesday, including a stop in the retirement community where tens of thousands of people gave her star treatment in the 2008 presidential election.
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... Bloomberg to tonight's state dinner was certainly no shock-nor was Obama's petty ante treatment of Bill Thompson in the mayoral campaign. At his core, Obama is a pure elitist-and one who has embraced the new Democratic party's conjugal relationship with the fat cats on Wall Street. Mike Bloomberg is, therefore, a soul mate -or at least one of a cohort of Illuminati that the Obami...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
... re-elected Michael Bloomberg, but by such a surprisingly narrow margin. Few people outside the Bill Thompson family were prepared to argue that Thompson would have been better at the job. But now, when future mayors are tempted to break the two-term limit, they'll have to remind themselves that $100 million only got Bloomberg 51 percent of the vote. Bernie Kerik is not the...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... asserts "might have been inconvenient for Bloomberg while he was running against Democrat Bill Thompson in a heavily Democratic city" — showed up four months later (and the city promises it will be able to turn over FOIL requests within a week !). The News has a photo gallery of the images here . " There is simply no good reason for delaying disclosure ,"...
news | OS | http://www.ocala.com (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
By Bill Thompson Staff writer For almost 25 years Marion County officials have relied on a straw poll to guide them in determining whether to tax local subdivisions that seek to get their roads paved.
The Daily Politics (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Here are all the photos taken of Sarah Palin's October 2007 meeting at City Hall with Mayor Bloomberg, compliments of DN City Hall Bureau Chief Adam Lisberg. As he reported yesterday , Lisberg requested the shots through a July 8 Freedom of Information Law request that wasn't filled until two weeks after the Nov. 3 election was safely past and the mayor had defeated Comptroller Bill Thompson...
