In this week’s installment of consultant corner, some of the Congressional candidates have staffed up.

In Queens, Rory Lancman tells us that he has hired longtime consultant Hank Sheinkopf as a strategist for his race to replace the retiring Gary Ackerman.

Mr. Lancman had been working with the Parkside Group, but according to Parkside head Evan Stavisky, they stepped away when the district got redrawn in such a way that the Assemblyman was no longer in a race against Republican Bob Turner but found himself in a competitive three-way Democratic primary. Read More