Assemblyman Micah Kellner has maxed out.
In 53 days, Mr. Kellner, a candidate for Upper East Side Councilwoman Jessica Lappin’s seat this year, has raised over $123,000 from over 440 donors, his campaign announced this morning. The total makes Mr. Kellner one of the strongest fundraisers in the city and effectively means he can’t raise any more money for the decisive Democratic primary while accepting public matching funds. Read More
Upper East Side Assemblyman Micah Kellner’s campaign for the City Council got a nice boost this morning with the official endorsements of the neighborhood’s congresswoman, Carolyn Maloney, and the woman whose job he’s aiming to grab, Jessica Lappin.
“I wholeheartedly endorse Micah Kellner for City Council. I have been honored to represent the 5th District for the last seven years and know he will make an outstanding Council Member for our community,” Ms. Lappin said in a press release. Read More
Step aside Joe Lhota, you’re not the only one who registered a new campaign account today.
Assemblyman Micah Kellner, who had been “inching” towards a City Council campaign as far back as April of last year, officially pulled the trigger by forming “KELLNER 2013″ and, in a statement, announced the bid as the next step towards representing his Upper East Side constituents.
“I entered public service to tackle the tough issues, and to fight for our community. This year presents a new opportunity to serve by running for New York’s 5th City Council district,” Mr. Kellner said. Read More
At a Brooklyn Bowl fundraiser last night, State Senator Dan Squadron may have very well picked up his first endorsement from an elected official in his unannounced campaign for the Public Advocate’s Office: Assemblyman Micah Kellner. Bill de Blasio, the current inhabitant of that office, is widely expect to mount a campaign for mayor, leaving a vacancy behind him, and Mr. Kellner is openly backing him to fill that position.
“I am definitely urging him and encouraging him and trying to draft him to run for Public Advocate,” Mr. Kellner said, offering to head efforts to round up votes for Mr. Squadron on the Upper East Side. “We’re going to have a new mayor in 2014, and probably a new public advocate and we need somebody who’s smart enough to stand with the mayor when he or she is right, and we need someone who is strong enough to stand up to the mayor when he or she is wrong.” Read More
Attorney Benjamin Kallos might be off and running with his Upper East Side City Council campaign, but he had nothing but kind words to describe one of his top potential opponents, Assemblyman Micah Kellner. Mr. Kellner has not made any formal decision, but a source close to him previously told The Politicker he was “inching” towards a run.
“I think he’s been doing a good job,” Mr. Kallos said when asked of Mr. Kellner’s record in the Assembly at his redistricting-themed fundraiser earlier this week. “Assemblyman Kellner does represent me, I actually live in the 65th Assembly District.” Read More
Benjamin Kallos, an attorney and consultant, said in an interview today that will seek the seat currently held by Democratic Councilwoman Jessica Lappin. Councilwoman Lappin is thought to be running for Manhattan Borough President, where the incumbent, Scott Stringer, is expected to run for Mayor.
Should that set of dominoes fall in place, Mr. Kallos stated he “absolutely” will campaign for the seat and has already opened a 2013 campaign committee for the endeavor. Read More
2012: “Clinton poked a little light-hearted fun” at Perry. [Newsmax.com]
2012: The firemen who heard Clinton’s remarks laughed. [NY Post]
2012: The story gets picked up by the wires. [AP]
2012: Romney notes only other candidate with private sector experience is Herman Cain. [S.A. Miller / NY Post]
2012: Perry touts “We created more jobs than any other state in the nation – from June of 2009 until present…Nobody in this race can say that.” [Huffington Post]
2012: “I can think of no reason why anyone who, for some unaccountable reason, supports Michele Bachmann will not move over to Perry.” [Richard Cohen / Daily News]
2012: “Republicans have yet to articulate a clear and compelling case for the White House — other than that they’re ‘not Obama.’” [NY Post]
2012: “Both parties’ primary systems give far too much weight to a small coterie of true believers.” [New York Times]
2013: “[Quinn] is unapologetic about her move to the middle, and brushes off her critics as ‘naïve’ ideologues. ‘There’s very few things in life…where there are angels and devils. Everything is usually more complicated than that.’ ” [David Chen / New York Times]
NY-9: Schumer to endorse Weprin. [Celeste Katz / Daily News]
NY-9: Turner defends opposition to Park51 and use of 9/11 imagery. “I’m not even remotely backing off it.” [Michael Saul / WSJ]
NY-9: “[Turner's] campaign is geared around nationalizing the race and winning the support of Democrats who are dissatisfied with the president.” [Alex Isenstadt / Politico]
VP: Biden was in the Hamptons with tech entrepreneur David Bohnett and his partner, Tom Gregory. [Page Six / NY Post]
Transporting Cuomo: “It cost New York about $13,000 to shuttle Gov. Andrew Cuomo on state-owned aircract for six months.” [AP]
Reading Cuomo: He “seemed rudderless when it came to the Port Authority.” [Bill Hamond / Daily News]
County Chairman: “With strong hints from statewide Democrats close to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo that his services are no longer required, [Erie County Democratic Chairman Len] Lenihan is quietly slipping out the door.” [Robert McCarthy / Buffalo News]
Ethics: “The new commission will mark the first time an independent body has been in charge of overseeing legislative ethics.” [Jon Campbell / Poughkeepsie Journal]
Labor: CSEA ratifies deal with Cuomo; avoids layoffs. [Democrat and Chronicle]
Labor: Unofficial vote was 60-40 in favor of the contract. [Rick Karlin / Times Union]
Labor: CSEA ratification is a big win for Cuomo. [Erik Kriss / NY Post]
Labor: “[R]atification also goes a long way toward validating Mr. Cuomo’s strategy for dealing with public workers.” [Thomas Kaplan / New York Times]
City Council: Former Councilman Jennings is best-funded challenger to Ruben Wills. [Lisa Colangelo / Daily News]
Taxis: Assemblyman Kellner urges Cuomo to block Bloomberg’s taxi plan until more cabs are handicap accessible. [Ken Lovett / Daily News]
Monroe: Incumbent GOP County Exec seeks unprecedented third term; Dem challenger vows to create integrity office. [Jill Terreri / Democrat and Chronicle]
World Police & Fire Games: No events on Staten Island. [Judy Randall / SI Advance]
Third Party: New SI chairman of Libertarian Party is Dave Narby. [Tom Wrobleski / SI Advance]
Fire: Judge blocks Bloomberg plan to eliminate emergency call boxes. [Benjamin Weiser / New York Times]
Health: State health officials support Oswego County’s decision not to spray insecticides, despite “a dozen positive tests for Eastern equine encephalitis this summer and the death of a 4-year-old girl.” [Teri Weaver / Post-Standard]
Taxes: GOP candidates are proposing “most radically conservative positions of any set of candidates at least since Barry M. Goldwater in 1964.” [Steven Rattner / New York Times]
And Attorney General Schneiderman’s push against a settlement with BofA gets a boost from Nevada’s Attorney General. [David McLaughlin / Business Week]
Taxi Commissioner David Yassky and Assemblyman Micah Kellner mix it up, on Facebook.
Kellner chided the city’s “Taxi of Tomorrow” for being “the delivery van of yesterday.”
Yassky – a bookish, former law school professor with a dry sense of humor – wrote “And can we please schedule time to debate what Read More
