Times Endorses de Blasio in the Primary
The New York Times
Albanese, 20 Years After Emerging as an Upstart Candidate, Tries a Third Time
The New York Times
“[Albanese] ran unsuccessfully for Congress in the early 1990s. In 1997, he made his first try for City Hall, assailing the “tale of two cities” created by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani; he came in third in the Democratic primary, garnering 21 percent of the vote. (The victor, Ruth Messinger, would lose to Mr. Giuliani in November.) He toyed with a run for mayor in 2001, and went for it 12 years later, in a crowded field from which Mr. de Blasio emerged victorious. Mr. Albanese finished eighth out of nine, receiving 0.9 percent of the vote. Now Mr. Albanese, 68, who has made transit and political reform his signature issues, is looking at his most unencumbered shot yet at City Hall, if only because he is taking on an incumbent mayor when no established Democrat saw fit to do so.”
An Outsider Tries to Crash the Democratic Party
WNYC
Father Khader El-Yateem is a Lebanese Christian trying to become the first Arab-American member of the New York City Council.
Why is No One Polling the Mayoral Race?
Gotham Gazette
Inside the Uper East Side Council Race
DNAinfo
“A worker on Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign and a former candidate who challenged the City Council speaker are taking on incumbent Upper East Side Councilman Ben Kallos in this year’s primary race. Patrick Bobilin and Gwen Goodwin both hope that their advocacy on issues like affordable housing and equality can help them beat out Kallos, who has held the District 5 office covering Yorkville, Lenox Hill, Carnegie Hill, Roosevelt Island, Sutton Place and East Harlem since 2013.”