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Jeff Coltin
@JCColtin
NYC political reporter with @PoliticoNY, co-authoring New York Playbook. 🌵➡️🗽 Used to be at @CityandStateNY
Mar 1 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Jhoan Boada, the immigrant who put up middle fingers after being arrested for the Times Square cop beating - *was not there at all* Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's office said today. Exonerated and complaint dismissed.
The image tore up Fox News, and was in at least one pro-Trump ad.
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Image Boada's lawyer said wasn't involved, and Bragg didn't ask for bail, because the office wasn't confident that it was him in the fight. *Many,* including Hochul, argued Bragg should've been tougher. Today, they say it would've met jailing an innocent person. nydailynews.com/2024/01/31/nyp…
Nov 11, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Pro-Palestine activists are rallying outside the Shomer Shabbos Somos event - hosted by the UJA, Met Council and Chabad of Puerto Rico. They audio is VERY loud - you can hear it across the laguna at the Caribe. The Friday night Jewish event hosted by @NYCGreenfield is always one of the biggest and best attended of the whole Somos conference. cityandstateny.com/politics/2022/…
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Mar 1, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
NYPD did NOT show up to testify at a Council oversight hearing of the SRG, but submitted a written statement, @KamillahMHanks says.
This was postponed twice already: cityandstateny.com/politics/2023/… Image In short: Image
Dec 13, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Sam Bankman-Fried (openly) funded the Protect Our Future super PAC. In NY, it backed Josh Lafazan #NY03, Laura Gillen #NY04 and Francis Conole #NY22.
SBF groups spent on Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado, too, and endorsed Rep. Ritchie Torres (#NY15) and Max Rose.
cityandstateny.com/politics/2022/… Bankman-Fried also donated millions to other groups, e.g. Dem-backing Senate Majority PAC. And there was apparently a lot of dark money we don't even know about. But Protect Our Future seems like one where SBF and/or his brother picked who to support.
opensecrets.org/outside-spendi…
May 20, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
These photos were posted with a purpose 👀 Few to no policy differences. Low-ish stakes since the winner will retire soon anyway. Two iconic New Yorkers. This Nadler/Maloney race could be four months of pure political entertainment.
Apr 14, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
First Deputy Mayor Lorraine Grillo is speaking at a @CBCNY breakfast. “The mayor has a theory, it’s not how much you spend, it’s how you spend it.” “I’m at the tail end of getting over COVID, so there’s a brain fog here,” Grillo says.
The mayor himself also tested positive for COVID on Sunday and is still isolating at Gracie.
Speaker Adams also had COVID earlier this month.
Apr 13, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Who will be Hochul's next LG? Problem is, it'll probably only last seven months. cityandstateny.com/politics/2022/… One option? Seeing if Democratic candidates Diana Reyna or Ana María Archila want it.
Another? Picking somebody already in the administration, like Robert Rodriguez, or Kathryn Garcia. cityandstateny.com/politics/2022/…
Apr 12, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The state’s next lieutenant governor? @AnaMariaforNY Archila: “Governor Hochul said that she was bringing in a new day in Albany. That she would be a breath of fresh air... she chose not to protect the public trust in the vetting of her lieutenant governor… Today is a sad day.” Image The LG and Gov run separately in the primary, but together in the general. “If I win the primary, I will work with the person who wins the primary in the governor’s race,” Archila said.
Nov 2, 2021 • 20 tweets • 7 min read
Curtis Sliwa arrives to vote, carrying one of his cats, Gizmo. How are you feeling? “Physically, not good. I’m in a lot of pain,” @CurtisSliwa says, after he was hit by a cab on Friday. But says that pales in comparison to the pain of city workers (who declined to get vaccinated) and are out of a job.
Aug 22, 2021 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Just witnessed an incredibly boneheaded, impossibly naïve performance from @NYCMayor Bill de Blasio tonight at the We Love NYC Homecoming concert. Just got home, soaking wet from the show cancelled due to rain and lightning. 1/? Seconds before Don Lemon introduced Barry Manilow, there was a flash of lightning in the sky. Lemon doesn’t mention it and Manilow plays Copacabana while raindrops start to fall. Then Manilow’s sound gets cut + an official voice announces that people gotta leave. Severe weather.
Jun 28, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
After close to a year on the Upper West Side, men are being moved out of The Lucerne Hotel this morning. For the previous year, elected officials have shown up at almost every one of those press conferences supporting the hotel residents. But post-election, nobody’s here today ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (There is a deputy public advocate representing Jumaane Williams’ office but that’s it)
May 24, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Two sources with knowledge of the announcement tell me state Sen. John Liu, the first and only Asian-American elected citywide, will be endorsing Andrew Yang for mayor tomorrow morning. Great article in @Curbed on Friday on some of the dynamics behind this big endorsement.
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May 23, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“Major” Yang endorsement tomorrow and I have absolutely no idea. As much as I hope it’s the surviving members of Linkin Park, I guess I’ll guess... Brad Hoylman? Image Team Hoylman, btw, says it is not Hoylman.
May 23, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I am at the Andrew Yang versus Paperboy Prince basketball game. Gale Brewer is here too. Image Yang and Prince talk about spreading love in a time of increasing hate crimes. Yang says this is a good example of the power of ranked-choice voting. Image
Mar 19, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
At @ABetterNY, @ScottMStringer not so artfully tries to connect Yang’s criticism of UFT with his spending time in New Paltz during the worst of the pandemic. “He clearly doesn’t understand what so many went through” and implied he doesn’t “show respect” for teachers. Stringer accuses Yang of trying to “score cheap political points” on criticizing UFT and well... both teams are playing a game right now.
Mar 17, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
A source says @AndrewYang and @TwuSamuelsen just had lunch together, as the endorsement courtship continues between Yang and the transit workers union. TWU President John Samuelsen turned some heads with his nice tweet about Yang last week. Would be quite a notable endorsement, since Yang hasn’t picked up any real labor support* yet.
Mar 17, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Which mayoral candidate is spending like a drunken sailor? ... Who's spending big in the Bronx specials? ... and can't say they didn't warn us about pandemic petitioning ... All in the newsletter: bit.ly/3lnDUa7 Image A HUGE welcome to Campaign Confidential Contributor @SydneyKashiwagi! I've been a fan for years, and am so excited to work more with her as the primary approaches.
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Jan 18, 2021 • 21 tweets • 7 min read
Rev. Sharpton knows show business - so @AndrewYang gets the *first* in-person speaking spot at NAN’s MLK Day celebration. Yang talks about knocking doors in Georgia with MLK III, who just formally endorsed Yang’s mayoral campaign today.
Jan 15, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
New York City comptroller fundraising thread
(*according to campaigns. don't fully believe it till you see it in the @NYCCFB) Brad Lander: