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Sorry Mr. Thompson
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 07:50PM 
During a recent divorce court session NYC Comptroller was in court fighting over a credenza(literally). Just loud enough to be overheard, his lawyer proclaims that his client 'isn't the sharpest tool in the shed'.....Ouch. Tough break for someone whose hoping to run for Mayor. Speaking of which....
Christine Quinn is still battling the "legal slush fund".
Bill Thompson is dealing with personal issues among other things. Such as, how those aforementioned Council slush funds went unnoticed by the city's auditing branch(the comptroller's office).
Rep. Anthony Weiner is sitting by letting his competition shoot themselves in slightly more vital places than their feet. He rose in the polls quickly last Mayoral election, he will easily do this again, more succesfully perhaps.
Everyone else is pretty quiet. As long as Rep. Vito Fossella (S.I., Brooklyn) and his pals aren't around, drinking.
Update on Monday, May 12, 2008 at 01:11PM by
Portable Renaissance Reader
Portable Renaissance Reader
As of May 12, 2008:
Quinn's worsening public image has been handed another blow as Comptroller Bill Thompson brokered a deal with the Mayor's office to oversee the auditing of improper NYC Council spending in relation to the recent scandal that un-serendipitously bloomed under Speaker Quinn's helm. Depending on how Thompson's office handles this debacle we could see his stock rise from it's current low as this move effectively cuts Quinn out of the entire process leaving her with little opportunity to redeem herself. Now a far cry from her initial standing NYMAG's Chris Smith puts it best.....
This is, possibly, a terrific combination in a modern public official. Throw in the fact that Quinn is proudly gay, and female, and her rise becomes not just politically intriguing but culturally symbolic. Yet now Quinn finds herself in the middle of a potentially career-ending crisis in large part because of the contradictions she’s embraced: positioning herself as a reformer of big-money, insider politics while playing the old-school game of favors and punishments.
Finding herself at a loss she proposed the Mayor's office take over spending, sending the ranks of council members into a brief fury. Now, virtually handcuffed, she can only hope to ride this storm out. Slainte! Speaker.
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