NYDailyNews (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Council Speaker Christine Quinn isn't sweating a challenge from sharp-tongued Brooklyn Councilman Charles Barron.
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Council Speaker Christine Quinn isn't sweating a challenge from sharp-tongued Brooklyn Councilman Charles Barron.
Queens Crap (Free subscription) | yesterday
From the Daily News : City Council Speaker Christine Quinn 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 "Christine Quinn is not welcome here" posters in their upper Manhattan store windows. Their purpose was to protest what...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | yesterday
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn 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...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn 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...
The Daily Politics (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
After threatening for weeks to make a run at ousting Council Speaker Christine Quinn 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...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Dietrich's Flickr City Council Speaker Christine Quinn 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...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
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 Speaker Christine Quinn 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....
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is not exactly popular these days among small business owners in New York. The merchants made this clear on Friday when hundreds placed "Christine Quinn is not welcome here" posters in their upper Manhattan store windows.
Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Speaker Christine Quinn is homosexual and wants to marry her "partner." H/T: D. Fowler
Out Gay Life (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
In a press conference held today in the aftermath of the failed equal marriage vote in Albany, openly gay New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn 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: Speaker Quinn chokes...
Towleroad (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
At a press conference Thursday morning, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn 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...
Queens Crap (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
From the NY Post : City Council Speaker Christine Quinn 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...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn 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...
The Daily Politics (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
... office in 2009 opted for the frozen committee option: Council Minority Leader Jimmy Oddo, Council Speaker Christine Quinn, 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...
