NEWSFLASH: The fine ladies employed by the Moonlight Bunny Ranch, located outside of Las Vegas, Nevada (of which we are a proud, native son) have finally weighed in with their endorsement for the 2012 Republican Presidential Primary, reports Raw Story. Mitt Romney, who is leading in polls, has been snubbed: Their vote has gone to Ron Paul. Read More
The new Resorts World casino—as operated by robots in compliance with New York State law, after a very long ordeal to bring more gambling revenue to Aqueduct—had its grand opening this afternoon. Look who it brought in: Democratic assemblyman David Weprin is testing his hand at the games of fortune! Read More
POLITICAL REPORTERS ARE ALLOWED TO BE FUNNY ONCE A YEAR
The postcard for this year’s Inner Circle Show—the annual night ‘o laughs hosted by New York City’s City Hall reporters (or if you ask their Wikipedia page: “the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, only cooler”) where the mayor and the city media get together to make fun of the people they cover for an evening—has come out. It is, as ever, a charming display of political humor and terrible Photoshopping skills: Read More
Ten minutes ago, from NY1 reporter Grace Ruah, at the Bob Turner election night headquarters: Read More
Does Bob Turner know something the rest of us don’t? Because according to WNYC’s The Empire blog, he just had David Weprin served with papers, challenging the election results, in the middle of the street, before the election is even over.
In other news, the NY-09 Special Election just went from moderately crazy to completely insane. Read More
As voting wraps up for the NY-09 special election to replace Anthony Weiner’s congressional seat, stories of less-than-admirable tricks by supporters of both candidates—Republican Bob Turner and Democrat David Weprin—are being reported. Read More
The 9/11 anniversary attack threat we’ve heard about recently in the news was just opened up a bit by The Daily—News Corp’s iPad-only daily newspaper—who have obtained a joint FBI/Homeland Security bulletin on the attack threat and posted it online. Read More
The most recent polling numbers for the NY-9 special election over Anthony Weiner’s departed congressional seat were released this morning, and many saw them as a shocker: Republican candidate Bob Turner is showing a six point lead over Democratic candidate David Weperin. Between that, and the recent stumble of an advertisement-turned-PR-fiasco, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee could likely use the $483,500 of advertising buys before the September 13th election they took out yesterday. Read More
Yesterday, we broke news of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s recent anti-Bob Turner ad, which featured a bizarrely ill-timed attempt at illustrating Republican NY-9 candidate Bob Turner’s affection for corporate interests: an airplane buzzing the skyline of Manhattan. Three days before the tenth anniversary of 9/11—which has this entire city a little tense, and which goes without mentioning renewed threats of violence—it would seem like an entirely avoidable bush-league error. The spot was eventually doctored to remove the skyline. And yet… Read More
