The mayor and governor have promised to make New York’s policy environment as friendly as they can for the corporate giant. What do the company’s lobbying disclosures say about its agenda?
Smalls says she’d focus on transit, housing and voting reform if she prevails in the February 26 special election for public advocate.
The veteran lawmaker says the HQ2 deal presents precisely the kind of issue where a public advocate’s voice can be critical. And he argues that he’s been clearer on that issue than others in the race.
Now in his third term in the Assembly, the former Obama campaign official hopes to continue a rapid rise with a victory on February 26.
Not only will limited liability companies be treated as corporations rather then people, and be subject to lower contribution limits, their ownership will be much more transparent.
The mayor talked explicitly about improving the level of ‘happiness’ in New York City as he rolled out proposals for universal healthcare, universal retirement security and mandatory paid leave.
‘I think the mayor really is a policy and politics wonk and he thinks he has something to contribute to a national conversation.’
Eric Ulrich presents himself as Republican enough to challenge the power of the mayor as public advocate, but not so Republican that any voters should think he’s part of President Trump’s wing of the party.
We tend to get our presidential candidates fully grown and painted in the broadest strokes. But when we examine a politician we have seen for years in granular detail, it requires us to decide what we think it takes to run for president.
At midnight on January 1, a ball dropped in Manhattan, former Public Advocate Letitia James became the state attorney general, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson became the acting public advocate, and a race to fill James’ seat that had been stewing for months came to a boil.