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• Yassky for Comptroller?

  Published: August 17, 2007, 1:23 pm

  Tags: Politics, David Weprin, David Yassky, James Brennan, John Liu, Melinda Katz, Michael Bloomberg, Scott Stringer, Simcha Felder

  John Liu, Melinda Katz and David Weprin of Queens, if I'm not missing anyone. The pool of voters in Manhattan, in the absence of another entrant (Scott Stringer, maybe?), are anything but locked down. Yassky is popular with the New York Times and with Michael Bloomberg, who has already held two fund-raisers for Felder, but has shared

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• Sheinkopf Hiring

  Published: August 31, 2007, 11:59 am

  Tags: Politics, Austin Shafran, David Weprin

  While we're on the subject of staff changes... David Weprin's communications director Austin Shafran is leaving next week to take a job with Democratic consultant Hank Sheinkopf. Shafran had previously worked for Congressman Gary Ackerman.

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• Simcha Felder Hires Again With an Eye on Comptroller Race

  Published: September 17, 2007, 5:03 am

  Tags: Politics, 2009, David Weprin, David Yassky, Eric Kuo, George Fontas, James Brennan, John Liu, Melinda Katz, New York City Comptroller, Oliver Koppell, Sam Cooper, Scott Gastel, Scott Stringer, Simcha Felder, Vinny Gentile

  members Melinda Katz, David Weprin and John Liu. Kuo's hire, if we feel like parsing the significance, not only gives Felder access to someone with experience in yet another part of the city but may help him, around campaign season, to appeal to any Chinese-American media and voters that aren't locked down by possible candidate

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• Yassky for Comptroller

  Published: September 24, 2007, 4:19 pm

  Tags: Politics, Adolfo Carrion, David Weprin, David Yassky, James Brennan, John Liu, Melinda Katz, Simcha Felder

  candidates in the race are David Weprin, Melinda Katz and possibly John Liu, all from Queens, plus Simcha Felder and James Brennan from Brooklyn. There's low-level grumbling about Adolfo Carrion getting into that race (although Carrion indicates he'd prefer to run for mayor). When I spoke with Yassky on Friday, he didn't confirm or

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• Spitzer's Rolls Out Some Support

  Published: November 2, 2007, 12:13 pm

  Tags: Politics, David Weprin, Eliot Spitzer

  plan is City Councilman David Weprin, who is running for City Comptroller. The Governor's plan will serve as a model for the country as the federal requirements for REAL ID are rolled out and imposed on states and Governor's are forced to address the responsibility of bringing undocumented populations out of the shadows. (It's

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• How Does ‘President Vallone’ Sound?

  Published: November 21, 2007, 12:43 pm

  Tags: Top Story, Borough Politics, City Hall, Politics 5b, Queens, Audrey I Pheffer, City Comptroller, City Council, David Weprin, John Lieu, Michael R Bloomberg, Peter F Vallone Jr, Term Limits

  Peter F. Vallone Jr. has one of the best-known family names in Queens politics, and while term limits has him seriously thinking about the top borough post, he won't have the field to himself.

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• Giuliani/Pataki Guy Raises Funds for a Democratic Comptroller

  Published: November 26, 2007, 12:11 pm

  Tags: Politics, David Barsky, David Weprin, Rudolph Giuliani

  Councilman David Weprin, a Democrat, is getting some unusual help in his campaign for city comptroller. The first name listed as a host of his November 29 fund-raiser is Adam Barsky, the former Deputy Secretary for Republican Governor George Pataki. Barsky later became the Director of the New York City Office of Management and Budget

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• Weprin: City Council May Still Tweak Term Limits Law

  Published: November 26, 2007, 4:50 pm

  Tags: Politics, David Weprin

  change it, to be honest David Weprin, who is affected by the term limits and running for comptroller, told me. There's plenty of time to get a referendum on the ballot for 08. That's what I would be looking to do. And there is still time to do a legislative tweak, in 09, similar to the Gifford Miller tweak, and just do it for a

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• Weprin's C.O.S. Departs, May Run for His Seat

  Published: November 29, 2007, 11:41 am

  Tags: Politics, Chuck Meara, Dave Pollak, David Weprin, Diane Savino, Domenic Recchia, Eric Gioia, George Arzt, Hank Sheinkopf, Ramone Martinez

  night at David Weprin's fund-raiser for his city comptroller campaign, I learned that the City Councilman's long-time chief of staff, Jack Rubin, is leaving in January to become the head of the Queens Chamber of Commerce. One attendee told me that Rubin might run for Weprin's seat in 2009. (Rubin was standing nearby and interjected that it's

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• Yassky Raises for Comptroller Campaign [updated]

  Published: December 10, 2007, 10:55 am

  Tags: Politics, David Weprin, David Yassky, James Breannan, Melinda Katz, Simcha Felder

  This evening, David Yassky kicks off his City Comptroller campaign with a fund-raiser at the Harvard Club. He's part of a fairly crowded field in which some of the candidates have already started to raise money and endorsements: Melinda Katz, David Weprin, Jim Brennan and (all-but-declared) Simcha Felder. The next Campaign Finance

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• Candidates Fine-Tune Their Fund-Raising Prowess

  Published: February 13, 2008, 3:50 pm

  Tags: Top Story, Government Politics, Borough Politics, Politics 5b, The Bronx, Campaigns, Elections, Adolfo Carri N Jr, Campaign Finance, City Comptroller, City Council, David Weprin, James F Brennan, Melinda R Katz

  Politicians throughout the city are looking to 2009 primaries for offices like comptroller and Bronx borough president, knowing that money will be a crucial element of their success or failure.

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• Dressing for Election

  Published: March 3, 2008, 5:51 am

  Tags: Politics, David Weprin, Jim Gennaro, Mike Gianaris

  for higher office--David Weprin and Jim Gennaro at the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Sunnyside yesterday. Weprin is running for city comptroller, and Gennaro is running for state Senate. Pictured on the far left is Assemblyman Michael Gianaris, who has plenty of money, but neither an active campaign for a different office, nor a fedora.

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• Two More Co-Chairs for Carrion

  Published: March 6, 2008, 10:14 am

  Tags: Politics, Adolfo Carrion, Carl Mccall, David Weprin, David Yassky, Elizabeth Holtzman, James Brennan, Leo Hindrey, Melinda Katz, Merryl Tisch, Simcha Felder

  also includes Melinda Katz, David Yassky, David Weprin, Simcha Felder and James Brennan. Here is the official statement: BRONX, NY - Today Carrion NYC Committee announced that Former NY City Comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman and Merryl H. Tisch Chairperson of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty have agreed to serve as Co-Chairs for the

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• Brooklyn Democrats Honor Yassky

  Published: April 2, 2008, 9:21 am

  Tags: Politics, Adolfo Carrion, David Weprin, David Yassky, Independent Neighborhood Democrats, James Brennan, John Liu, Melinda Katz, Simcah Felder

  A reader sent along this invitation for a May 1 awards dinner hosted by the Independent Neighborhood Democrats, a political club in Brooklyn. Among the honorees is the organization's councilman, David Yassky, who is also a candidate for city comptroller.  read more »

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• Assemblyman's Alternative Congestion Pricing Plan

  Published: April 2, 2008, 2:02 pm

  Tags: Green, Adolfo Carrion, David Weprin, David Yassky, James Brennan, John Liu, Melinda Katz, Simcha Felder

  pricing. Melinda Katz and David Weprin, both of Brooklyn Queens, opposed the plan. David Yassky and likely candidate Simcha Felder, both of Brooklyn, support it, as does Adolfo Carrion of the Bronx. John Liu of Queens, who is yet another possible candidate, voted for it.

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