Cuomo targeting House Republicans will help ... Republicans?
Cuomo will pay for this
Republican bochincheros are buzzing with alegría about Gov. Andrew Cuomo stirring up things by targeting six New York GOP members of Congress. “Ed Cox has been on his case and this helps fundraising.” Republicans feel that by opening his boca, Cuomo makes it easier for them to solidify support in those targeted districts and downstate as well. As we have written here before, Cox, the state Republican Party chairman, is looking to grow Republican turnout in the five boroughs in this year’s mayoral race. “The thinking is that it will help the 2018 gubernatorial race.” B&B was told that Cuomo’s targeting of the Republican House members gives Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino a better shot at securing the gubernatorial nomination. OK. It sounds like convoluted logic to me. Then again, Donald Trump is presidente.
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Dialing for $ from City Hall?
When the caca hit the proverbial fan of the National Puerto Rican Day Parade, New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito was the loudest voice asking for support of the parade board, which included working the phones to lobby politicos. Pero, one insider bochinchero told me that they also got a call from Erica González, the lame duck speaker’s senior adviser, about donating to the parade. “I didn’t appreciate the call. It just wasn’t right.” There was another bochinchera who also got a call from González with the same pitch. Was Erica making the calls from the speaker’s office? One bochinchero said it was a day call. The other said it was after office hours. Both bochincheros, who work for organizations that get municipal funding, ended up donating. Did they feel obligated? Both responded: “What do you think, Gerson?” Hello!
Emotional Hiram, pobrecito
According to a bochinchero spinner in disgraced New York City Council candidate Hiram Monserrate’s camp, “He got emotional about signing his name to his own nominating petition last Tuesday.” It seems that after serving two years in federal prison he thought he would never be able to run again. I know you’re reaching for the tissues. Give us a freaking break. All bets are favoring his primary opponent Assemblyman Francisco Moya winning the seat being vacated by City Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras-Copeland. “Don’t bet on that happening,” the spinster said. “Hiram has transferred his focus to Moya and going after him like if it was Julissa.” I don’t think so.
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Reform nods on the way … maybe
The bochinche is that the Reform Party should be making its formal endorsement announcements soon. What the hell is there left to announce? It will be Sal Albanese for mayor, Juan Carlos “J.C.” Polanco for public advocate and Michel Faulkner for comptroller. I guess they’re waiting for the steps of City Hall to clear. Or have they had second thoughts since boca sucia Bo Dietl showered party bigwig Frank Morano with vulgarities? “There are endorsements in Brooklyn and some City Council races,” including the district attorney race in that borough. With Curtis Sliwa, who chairs the Reform Party, convening the press conference, what could possibly go wrong?