Winners & Losers List: This Week’s Political Topdogs and Duds

Written by City & State on July 13, 2012. Posted in Politics

Julie Menin speaking at an event last year. Photo courtesy of PMC.

WINNERS Charles Rangel - The octogenarian congressman can finally exhale after his primary challenger, state Sen. Adriano Espaillat, conceded for a second time amid ballot irregularities. It is unclear whether Rangel will consider running again in 2014, and Adam Clayton Powell IV is already calling dibs on the seat, but the veteran lawmaker will certainly relish
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Lawmakers Back Felder in New ‘Super Jewish’ Senate District

Written by City & State on April 25, 2012. Posted in Politics

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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