Since Congressman Jerry Nadler announced that he wouldn\u2019t be running for another term, at least 12 Dems have made known their intentions to seek the coveted seat.<\/p>\n
On the Republican side, attorney Carolyn Shinkle appears to be the frontrunner. On Feb. 23, the Manhattan Republican Party endorsed her.<\/p>\n
Among Dems, UES Assemblyman Alex Bores was the first, as I recall, to announce his candidacy. Then came the others, including UWS Assemblyman Micah Lasher followed by, in no particular order, Jack Schlossberg, a grandson of President John F. Kennedy; attorney and outspoken Trump critic George Conway; tv and radio journalist Jami Floyd; gay rights activist Mathew Shurka; civil rights attorney Laura Dunn; public health activist Nina Schwabe; co-founder and managing partner of Mercury Capital Advisors Alan Pardee; software engineer Chris Diep; entrepreneur\/co-founder of electric vehicle rent-a-car company Joulez, Micah Bergdale; co-founder of the non-profit Helping Hands, Liam Elkind; and gun control activist Cameron Kasky.<\/p>\n
Bores\u2019s endorsements include the two Dem clubs in his Assembly district\u2014Four Freedoms and Lexington Democratic Club\u2014as well as former Congresswoman Caroline Maloney. Lasher\u2019s endorsements include the West Side Democratic Club and Jerry Nadler.<\/p>\n
Assembly members Lasher and Bores are believed to be the frontrunners for the Dems.<\/p>\n
There are several other Republicans said to be in the hunt as well as three independents but it will be tough uphill battle for all of them.<\/p>\n
Since 2002, when UES State Senator Liz Krueger won a special election against GOPer Andrew Eristoff, the electeds in Manhattan have essentially been Dems. That was after a reign of liberal Republican representatives including NYS Senator Roy M. Goodman and Rep. Bill Green, who was unseated by Carolyn Maloney in 1992.<\/p>\n
Shinkle graduated from MIT with a degree in economics and earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School\u2014where she was a classmate of Schlossberg\u2014and worked at an international law firm. She is a long-time member of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA). Shinkle is focusing her campaign, per her online literature, emphasizing the economy, \u201cIt\u2019s ALWAYS the Economy.\u201d Taking a line from Dem Party stalwart James Carville, although think Shinkle probably will probably not add Carville\u2019s emphatic \u201cStupid\u201d to the signature phrase.<\/p>\n
Shinkle\u2019s not alone on the Republican line. There are six other candidates and three Independents, according to ballotpedia.<\/p>\n
Petitions began circulating on Feb 13th, but supporters did not really hit the sidewalks until this past weekend when they could finally see the sidewalks after the snow. It runs to April 3rd. The primary\u2019s on June 24th. Election\u2019s Nov 3rd.<\/p>\n
Miscellany\u2014First, Tudor City Steakhouse has the best hospitality (think owner Mirso Lekvic and staff) as well as the best Happy Hour and menu. When I was dining there with my forever friend Cindy Adams (we met before she became a legend at the NY Post when she wrote a weekly column for Our Town and I was her editor), everyone was talking about Olympian speedskater, Kamryn Lute, who is a Tudor City resident!<\/p>\n
Second, I\u2019d like to bring to your attention\u2014maybe brag\u2014about an email I received from journalist Bob Lape who was a WABC-TV reporter\/commentator until the late 80s which is how I got to know him. He\u2019s no longer in NY, but he still reads Our Town. After reading my most recent column about Virginia Maloney\u2019s induction to the City Council at Hunter College and mention of former Councilman Carter Burden\u2019s daughter\u2019s recently published memoir, he emailed the following, slightly edited :<\/p>\n
\u201dWhat a superb account of the swearing-in of the latest Maloney line of public servants!<\/p>\n
\u201dIt was a jackhammer punch to my memory vault of reporting Manhattan politics from the late 1960s to the present. Carter Burden to Julie Menin.<\/p>\n
\u201dAbsorbing all this at 5 a.m. in the same day I devoured Cindy Adams\u2019 delicious review of Liza Minelli\u2019s memoir is almost too much for even a gourmet to handle.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ladies who launch\u2014Imagine losing Saks 5th? Or Bergdorf\u2019s? It\u2019s easy to blame Amazon, online shopping and whomever\/whatever gets the rightful blame. But what\u2019s been overlooked and confounding to me is that the rich and famous, mostly females known for shopping the high-end shopping meccas, are spending their big bucks at consignment shops. Don\u2019t be confused. There was a time when the ladies who were said to lunch are now the ladies who launch and are CEOs and in other high and mighty and monied careers and lifestyles. But now many of them them are buying their Pradas, Guccis, Balenciagas at consignment shops. Oy vey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since Congressman Jerry Nadler announced that he wouldn\u2019t be running for another term, at least 12 Dems have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[62955,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-150512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-east-side-observer","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}