From the Daily News : City Council SpeakerChristineQuinn is not exactly popular these days among small business owners in New York. The merchants made this clear on Friday when hundreds of them, mostly Dominican bodega owners, placed "ChristineQuinn is not welcome here" posters in their upper Manhattan store windows. Their purpose was to protest what...
City Council SpeakerChristineQuinn isn't sweating Councilman Charles Barron's announcement that he's running against her for Council Speaker. The Daily News reports that Quinn said, "I take all races seriously, but I am very, very optimistic that I will be reelected in January as speaker of the City Council." She insisted, "We have now a much...
City Council SpeakerChristineQuinn is facing an attack on her leadership post from the left -- the far left. Councilman Charles Barron of Brooklyn, a former Black Panther who has blasted Quinn's stewardship of the council, announced yesterday he...
After threatening for weeks to make a run at ousting Council SpeakerChristineQuinn in 2009, Charles Barron made his candidacy official today at a raucous City Hall rally. The attendance list for the event read a like "who’s who" of black political controversies of the last two decades, the DN's Erin Einhorn reports. Among those who spoke in favor of the controversial...
Dietrich's Flickr City Council SpeakerChristineQuinn has vowed to dedicate the next four years to food. She has a dream that the city can create jobs, improve food quality, support local farmers, and improve the environment by bringing NYC's "food infrastructure" into the 21st century. At a press conference to announce the city’s FRESH supermarket initiative...
After telling the Village Voice he would be an "excellent Speaker" last month , controversial City Councilmember Charles Barron is expected to announce that he will challenge City Council SpeakerChristineQuinn for leadership tomorrow. He tells the Daily News that he knows he's a "long-shot" but adds, "This is going to be done from the ground up....
City Council SpeakerChristineQuinn is not exactly popular these days among small business owners in New York. The merchants made this clear on Friday when hundreds placed "ChristineQuinn is not welcome here" posters in their upper Manhattan store windows.
In a press conference held today in the aftermath of the failed equal marriage vote in Albany, openly gay New York City Council SpeakerChristineQuinn choked up, saying “I don’t really care about a coup. I don’t really care that people ganged up on Dede Scozzafava, who’s a courageous woman. What I care about [...] VIDEO: SpeakerQuinn chokes...
At a press conference Thursday morning, New York City Council SpeakerChristineQuinn broke down while delivering an emotional explanation of what she believed happened at the marriage vote on Wednesday. Said Quinn: "At the end of the day, people...
From the NY Post : City Council SpeakerChristineQuinn has begun strictly enforcing residency requirements for all legislators -- and is promising to look into anyone who doesn't comply, The Post has learned. Quinn last week sent every incoming and current member papers explaining that they are required by law to live in their districts on the date of election, and mandating...
City Council SpeakerChristineQuinn has begun strictly enforcing residency requirements for all legislators -- and is promising to look into anyone who doesn't comply, The Post has learned. Quinn last week sent every incoming and current member p...
... office in 2009 opted for the frozen committee option: Council Minority Leader Jimmy Oddo, Council SpeakerChristineQuinn, Councilman Joel Rivera, Councilman Domenic Recchia and Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. Of that group, there's only one would-be mayoral contender: Quinn, who changed her position on term limits to help her ally, Bloomberg, to successfully push their...