N.Y. mayoral candidate Christine Quinn struggles in shadow of Weiner scandal Her wife, Kim Catullo, a rigorously private corporate lawyer...and Quinn herself is a 4th term for Bloomberg, whose very controversial third term she helped secure by allowing more than 2 terms and pushed the change with the city council. "Quinn’s critics incessantly cast her as a Bloomberg manquee. Reports of her mean streak (withholding council funds as revenge for slights) and temper (soundproof office walls) have stuck, at least as much as the charm of her round Long Island vowels and rollicking laugh. Even supporters in the gay power center of Chelsea whisper about their disappointment with Quinn for her refusal in 2010 to support a popular bill — opposed by Bloomberg — that would have required small businesses to provide their employees with paid sick leave. (She reversed her position in 2013 under political pressure from her mayoral rivals.)" "On Friday morning, Weiner sat at a table of South and East Asian business owners at the Tandoor Restaurant in the Queens neighborhood of Rego Park. NY1, NBC, Fox, ABC and Fox News microphones were splayed out like a place setting before him. As Weiner spoke about small-business issues and parking meters, Washington Republicans issued a memo characterizing his antics as part of the Democrats’ “War on Women.” Weiner refused to take Carlos Danger/Eliot Spitzer-themed questions, or to comment at all about Quinn. After the event, Loulou Thassim Saleem, a professor at St. John’s University, says she intended to support Quinn early “because she was the woman in the race.” Then Weiner got in, and seemed more impressive, she says, and Quinn left her cold." washingtonpost/politics/ny-mayoral-candidate-christine-quinn-struggles-in-the-shadow-of-scandal/2013/08/06/7cd6992a-fec4-11e2-9711-3708310f6f4d_story.html
Posted on: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 03:13:52 +0000
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