The New York Observer (Free subscription) | yesterday
For City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, things are probably going to be less fun now. The mayor whose wagon she hitched her fortunes to spent $100 million to win reelection by less than 5 points against a member of her own party whom she endorsed late and with undisguised indifference. Four incumbent council members she backed were ousted in primaries by labor-backed candidates...
Towleroad (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Openly gay NYC City Council speaker Christine Quinn was asked at a press conference this morning about the potential for a vote on marriage equality by the State Senate tomorrow. "It's an incredibly important piece of legislation...If the bill is...
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Fighting back tears, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn urged the state Senate Monday to "stand up" and pass the same-sex marriage bill to prove "all New York Families are equal."
New York Post (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Veterans of the Iraq, Afghanistan and Gulf wars should get priority in one of the city's affordable-housing programs, according to the City Council. On the day before Veterans Day, Council Speaker Christine Quinn yesterday introduced a measure urg...
The Daily Politics (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Council Speaker Christine Quinn today made an impassioned plea for the Senate to not only let the same-sex marriage bill come to the floor tomorrow, but to pass it and send it to the governor, who has pledged to sign it into law. Quinn, who is the first woman and first openly gay person to hold her post, has been deeply involved in the lobbying effort for the marriage bill....
Gotham Gazette: New York City News (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
For four years, the mayor and speaker have played as a team. Now, though, some members want City Council to be more assertive. Can Quinn lead them in this new era?
Joe. My. God. (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
NYC Councilman Charles Baron is gunning to unseat Speaker Christine Quinn, saying it's long overdue for the city to have a person of color in the job, perhaps overlooking that the openly lesbian Quinn is also a minority. "I would be an excellent speaker," Charles Barron, the Democratic councilman from Brooklyn said today, and if another person of color doesn't...
New York Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
With the election year complete and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s job secure, Brooklyn’s delegation in the City Council are looking to increase their clout and pocketbooks through being named to leadership positions.Chairing committees, sub-...
Queens Crap (Free subscription) | yesterday
From the Daily News : Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan would jump to the head of waiting lists for scarce middle-class housing, if the City Council gets its way. Now, preference for so-called Mitchell-Lama housing is given only to veterans of conflicts through the Vietnam War. Newer vets are not getting the same benefit, said City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D-Manhattan)....
kenneth in the (212) (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... ) Showdown in Albany: In separate pleas Monday, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn urged senators to approve a gay marriage bill. (I don't know about you, but I hope it passes so we can have it taken away from us next year.) ( OnTop ) Read the latest from Josh Meltzer, communications director at the Empire State Pride Agenda, HERE . Generation...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
THIS man does not deserve to be treated like a crim inal. Cabby Medhat Mohamed is the new poster boy for sexual intolerance in this libertine city. He's been branded by Council Speaker Christine Quinn as potentially the biggest bigot ever to scar th...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Forget about it. People don’t want it." Try telling that to openly gay City Council speaker Christine Quinn, who yesterday held back tears during an emotional press conference , telling reporters , "If the bill is not voted on and passed, a week after a referendum passed in Maine that took rights away from the residents, if seven days after that, the New York...
Politik Ditto (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
To think during the Obama Depression one could sympathize with a man making a living driving a cab 50 hours a week to support his family, but not when you cross the Gay Mafia : THIS man does not deserve to be treated like a crim inal. Cabby Medhat Mohamed is the new poster boy for sexual intolerance in this libertine city. He's been branded by Council Speaker Christine Quinn as...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... accused the driver of discrimination, and contacted the press. By week's end they even had Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Mayor Bloomberg labeling the driver as a "disgrace." However, the driver says he would have done the same thing had it been a heterosexual couple, since their actions (which he says went beyond hugging) were distracting him from driving. He...
TONY Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hopefully, the facts about last night’s marriage-rights vigil—organized by (thank you, MENY!) in Union Square—are not an indication of how this week’s possible New York State special-session vote on the issue (delayed, sadly, from this afternoon) will go. First of all, there were not many people on board (200, at most, showed up to hold candles and chant, and the only two speakers were Council...
