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		<title>City Hall Horse Race: Before the Fall Edition</title>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>It's time for the latest installment of <a href="http://politicker.com/tag/city-hall-horse-race/">our weekly scorecard</a> for next year's potential mayoral candidates, rating how they've been doing in recent days. Overall, this final week of summer hasn't been particularly charged, but if one looks closely, a couple candidates can be spotted quietly laying the groundwork for their 2013 campaign apparatuses.</p>
<p><!--more-->Here's our highlights:</p>
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<td valign="top" height="20%"><strong>Billy Thompson</strong>'s <a href="http://politicker.com/2011/11/thompsons-turn-can-the-09-runner-up-win-the-second-time-around/">otherwise sleepy</a> campaign woke up a little this week, <a href="http://www.ny1.com/content/politics/political_news/169265/mayoral-rivals-divided-over-requirements-for-affordable-housing-developers" target="_blank">picking a fight</a> with Christine Quinn over her union-backed legislation regulating affordable housing construction. Mr. Thompson says it's not about politics, but the move can't hurt his sluggish fundraising.<br />
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<td valign="top" height="20%"><a href="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/green-arrrow1.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-38682" title="green arrrow" src="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/green-arrrow1.png" alt="" width="92" height="92" /></a><br />
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<td valign="top" height="20%"><a href="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/tiny-head-de-blasio1.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-38690" title="tiny head de blasio" src="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/tiny-head-de-blasio1.png" alt="" width="92" height="92" /></a><br />
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<td valign="top" height="20%"><strong>Bill de Blasio</strong> probably enjoys reports that include the phrase "Mr. de Blasio’s legal actions have most irritated Mr. Bloomberg." His latest lawsuit, a case involving disabled children, could <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/nyregion/mayoral-hopefuls-are-suing-bloomberg.html?_r=2ref=nyregion&amp;" target="_blank">help frame</a> his education policy during next year's campaign.<br />
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<td valign="top" height="20%"><a href="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/green-arrrow3.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-38684" title="green arrrow" src="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/green-arrrow3.png" alt="" width="92" height="92" /></a><br />
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<td valign="top" height="20%"><a href="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/tiny-head-stringer.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-38692" title="tiny head stringer" src="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/tiny-head-stringer.png" alt="" width="92" height="92" /></a><br />
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<td valign="top" height="20%"><strong>Scott Stringer </strong>joined other elected officials today to release <a href="http://www.nysenate.gov/files/pdfs/Report%20Protecting%20NYCHA%20Communities%20Squadron%20Stringer%20Kavanagh.pdf" target="_blank">a report</a> on public safety concerns at housing developments, but the highlight of his week had to be his spokeswoman Audrey Gelman <a href="http://www.cityandstateny.com/stringer-flack-audrey-gelman-gets-the-anna-wintour-treatment/" target="_blank">giving him a solid plug</a> in <em>Vogue </em>making him quite literally<em> en Vogue. </em>Fashionable!<br />
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<td valign="top" height="20%"><a href="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/circle-arrows2.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-38700" title="green arrrow" src="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/circle-arrows2.png" alt="" width="92" height="92" /></a><br />
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<td valign="top" height="20%"><a href="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/tiny-head-quinn.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-38694" title="tiny head quinn" src="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/tiny-head-quinn.png" alt="" width="92" height="92" /></a><br />
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<td valign="top" height="20%"><strong>Christine Quinn </strong>has three words for you: <a href="http://politicker.com/2012/09/coffee-talk-when-christine-quinn-met-barbra-streisand/" target="_blank">Barbra. Freakin'. Streisand</a>. Other than that and Mr. Thompson's rumblings, it's been a quiet week for the council speaker apart from a few events in the outer boroughs and a <em>Good Day New York</em> interview yesterday<strong>.</strong><br />
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<td valign="top" height="20%"><strong>Tom Allon</strong> is <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-allon/when-will-we-have-three-w_b_1876675.html" target="_blank">currently pushing</a> for women to take control of the levers of power in state goverment. Of course, in the context of the mayoral race, that might suggest an argument to elect Ms. Quinn as the first female in Gracie Mansion<br />
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<td valign="top" height="20%"><a href="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/red-arrow1.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-38686" title="red arrow" src="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/red-arrow1.png" alt="" width="92" height="92" /></a><br />
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<td valign="top" height="20%"><strong>John Liu </strong>is taking heat for giving a <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-19/nyc-s-liu-rehires-acadian-as-fund-manager-after-2010-dismissal.html" target="_blank">no-bid contract</a> to a pension investor he previously fired for poor performance. Additionally, his supporters <a href="http://politicker.com/2012/09/allies-compare-federal-probe-of-john-liu-to-holocaust/" target="_blank">kept referencing Nazis</a> at a press event denouncing the federal investigation into his fundraising. Not helping, guys.<br />
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It's time for the latest installment of <a href="http://politicker.com/tag/city-hall-horse-race/">our weekly scorecard</a> for next year's potential mayoral candidates, rating how they've been doing in recent days. Overall, this final week of summer hasn't been particularly charged, but if one looks closely, a couple candidates can be spotted quietly laying the groundwork for their 2013 campaign apparatuses.</p>
<p><!--more-->Here's our highlights:</p>
<table border="1">
<tbody>
<tr valign="top">
<td valign="top" height="20%"><a href="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/green-arrrow2.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-38683" title="green arrrow" src="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/green-arrrow2.png" alt="" width="92" height="92" /></a><br />
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<td valign="top" height="20%"><a href="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/tiny-head-thompson.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-38691" title="tiny head thompson" src="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/tiny-head-thompson.png" alt="" width="92" height="92" /></a><br />
<hr /></td>
<td valign="top" height="20%"><strong>Billy Thompson</strong>'s <a href="http://politicker.com/2011/11/thompsons-turn-can-the-09-runner-up-win-the-second-time-around/">otherwise sleepy</a> campaign woke up a little this week, <a href="http://www.ny1.com/content/politics/political_news/169265/mayoral-rivals-divided-over-requirements-for-affordable-housing-developers" target="_blank">picking a fight</a> with Christine Quinn over her union-backed legislation regulating affordable housing construction. Mr. Thompson says it's not about politics, but the move can't hurt his sluggish fundraising.<br />
<hr /></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td valign="top" height="20%"><a href="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/green-arrrow1.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-38682" title="green arrrow" src="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/green-arrrow1.png" alt="" width="92" height="92" /></a><br />
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<td valign="top" height="20%"><a href="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/tiny-head-de-blasio1.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-38690" title="tiny head de blasio" src="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/tiny-head-de-blasio1.png" alt="" width="92" height="92" /></a><br />
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<td valign="top" height="20%"><strong>Bill de Blasio</strong> probably enjoys reports that include the phrase "Mr. de Blasio’s legal actions have most irritated Mr. Bloomberg." His latest lawsuit, a case involving disabled children, could <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/nyregion/mayoral-hopefuls-are-suing-bloomberg.html?_r=2ref=nyregion&amp;" target="_blank">help frame</a> his education policy during next year's campaign.<br />
<hr /></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td valign="top" height="20%"><a href="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/green-arrrow3.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-38684" title="green arrrow" src="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/green-arrrow3.png" alt="" width="92" height="92" /></a><br />
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<td valign="top" height="20%"><a href="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/tiny-head-stringer.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-38692" title="tiny head stringer" src="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/tiny-head-stringer.png" alt="" width="92" height="92" /></a><br />
<hr /></td>
<td valign="top" height="20%"><strong>Scott Stringer </strong>joined other elected officials today to release <a href="http://www.nysenate.gov/files/pdfs/Report%20Protecting%20NYCHA%20Communities%20Squadron%20Stringer%20Kavanagh.pdf" target="_blank">a report</a> on public safety concerns at housing developments, but the highlight of his week had to be his spokeswoman Audrey Gelman <a href="http://www.cityandstateny.com/stringer-flack-audrey-gelman-gets-the-anna-wintour-treatment/" target="_blank">giving him a solid plug</a> in <em>Vogue </em>making him quite literally<em> en Vogue. </em>Fashionable!<br />
<hr /></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td valign="top" height="20%"><a href="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/circle-arrows2.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-38700" title="green arrrow" src="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/circle-arrows2.png" alt="" width="92" height="92" /></a><br />
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<td valign="top" height="20%"><a href="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/tiny-head-quinn.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-38694" title="tiny head quinn" src="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/tiny-head-quinn.png" alt="" width="92" height="92" /></a><br />
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<td valign="top" height="20%"><strong>Christine Quinn </strong>has three words for you: <a href="http://politicker.com/2012/09/coffee-talk-when-christine-quinn-met-barbra-streisand/" target="_blank">Barbra. Freakin'. Streisand</a>. Other than that and Mr. Thompson's rumblings, it's been a quiet week for the council speaker apart from a few events in the outer boroughs and a <em>Good Day New York</em> interview yesterday<strong>.</strong><br />
<hr /></td>
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<td valign="top" height="20%"><a href="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/circle-arrows2.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-38686" title="red arrow" src="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/circle-arrows2.png" alt="" width="92" height="92" /></a><br />
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<td valign="top" height="20%"><strong>Tom Allon</strong> is <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-allon/when-will-we-have-three-w_b_1876675.html" target="_blank">currently pushing</a> for women to take control of the levers of power in state goverment. Of course, in the context of the mayoral race, that might suggest an argument to elect Ms. Quinn as the first female in Gracie Mansion<br />
<hr /></td>
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<td valign="top" height="20%"><a href="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/red-arrow1.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-38686" title="red arrow" src="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/red-arrow1.png" alt="" width="92" height="92" /></a><br />
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<td valign="top" height="20%"><a href="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/tiny-head-liu.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-38693" title="tiny head liu" src="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/tiny-head-liu.png" alt="" width="92" height="92" /></a><br />
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<td valign="top" height="20%"><strong>John Liu </strong>is taking heat for giving a <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-19/nyc-s-liu-rehires-acadian-as-fund-manager-after-2010-dismissal.html" target="_blank">no-bid contract</a> to a pension investor he previously fired for poor performance. Additionally, his supporters <a href="http://politicker.com/2012/09/allies-compare-federal-probe-of-john-liu-to-holocaust/" target="_blank">kept referencing Nazis</a> at a press event denouncing the federal investigation into his fundraising. Not helping, guys.<br />
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