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Campaign Roundup: John Liu’s campaign treasurer pled not guilty

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2013 Mayoral Race John Liu’s campaign treasurer pled not guilty. Bill Thompson suddenly now supports the living wage bill. Bill de Blasio was able to capitalize on Christine Quinn’s living wage walkout. State Senate It’s looking more and more like ex-Sen. Antoine Thompson will challenge Tim Kennedy. Sen. Neil Breslin says he’s not worried about
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Campaign Roundup: Quinn says she wasn’t overacting by walking out of Living Wage press conference

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2013 Mayoral Race Christine Quinn insists she didn’t overreact by walking out of the living wage press conference yesterday. But Bill de Blasio called Quinn out for her departure, saying that if she truly believed in the cause, she would have stayed. A rally in support of John Liu, the comptroller essentially said he would
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Heard Around Town: Cuomo wants to shut down Indian Point

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From City & State’s Heard Around Town, May 1, 2012: Andrew Cuomo wants to shutter Entergy’s Indian Point nuclear power plant, but company executives aren’t worried about it closing any time soon. One potential threat is Cuomo’s New York Energy Highway initiative, an effort to update transmission lines, install new ones and repower old power
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For Eric Ulrich, Gay Marriage an Attack Line and Potential Liability

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For Senate candidate and City Councilman Eric Ulrich, gay marriage is both an attack line and a potential liability. During his first week as a candidate for the state Senate, Ulrich, a Queens Republican, repeatedly criticized his opponent, Democratic State Sen. Joe Addabbo, flip-flopping on the issue of gay marriage. In 2009, Addabbo voted against
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Campaign Roundup: Cuomo reportedly is open to endorsing Ray Kelly’s possible candidacy, but would wait to see the outcome of the Democratic primary

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2013 Mayoral Race Andrew Cuomo reportedly is open to endorsing Ray Kelly’s possible candidacy, but would wait to see the outcome of the Democratic primary. Malcolm Smith joked that he might throw his hat into the mayoral field. Brooklyn Who else may be eying a Brooklyn BP run, now that Carlo Scissura is out of
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Diaz: Espaillat’s gay marriage support offensive to religious leaders

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State Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. says that Congressional candidate Adriano Espaillat is “slapping [religious leaders] in the face” with his full-throated support for same-sex marriage. In one of his “What You Should Know” missives to the press, Diaz Sr. cites Espaillat’s recent speech at a meeting of the Stonewall Democratic Club, in which he promised
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City & State: This week’s political “Winners and Losers” list

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Joe Lhota WINNERS Eric Adams — Okay, we admit it, this could really go to anyone left standing in the Brooklyn Borough President’s race, after heir apparent Carlo Scissura announced he was dropping out of the race to pursue a position as president of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. Other bandied about candidates include Sen. Kevin Parker
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New Bill Would Protect Health of Sex Workers and Clients

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Bill would bar the police from confiscating condoms from prostitutes  By Alan S. Chartock There is a new bill floating around the Legislature that would bar prosecutors and the police from confiscating condoms from “sex workers,” also known as prostitutes. Prosecutors use the seized condoms as evidence against the prostitutes. Obviously, if sex workers use
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Lawmakers Back Felder in New ‘Super Jewish’ Senate District

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At an endorsement press conference yesterday in Boro Park, Councilman David Greenfield and Assemblyman Dov Hikind heaped praise upon Simcha Felder, the ex-councilman both lawmakers are backing in Brooklyn’s new “Super-Jewish” state Senate district. But definitive answers to the question of whom Felder, a Democrat, would ultimately caucus with in Albany remained elusive. Felder, who
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