When members of the City Council want Speaker Christine C. Quinn to call a hearing on a piece of legislation, they have a few options. They can try to cut a deal; they can issue a few dozen press releases; they can nag. Or they can raise their voices in song. Councilman Oliver Koppell is [...]
Eight days before Election Day, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the city’s leading Democrat, has endorsed William Thompson for mayor. Quinn, a longtime backer of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, has been criticized by some for delaying an endorsement for her fellow Democrat. She said she called Thompson and told him he had her support. Bloomberg also [...]
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said Saturday she accepted an apology from a Manhattan business owner who was caught making derogatory comments about her at a William Thompson mayoral campaign event. Sean Kavanagh-Dowsett, the owner of the Greenwich Village teashop Tea and Sympathy, was caught on an audio recording saying about the speaker, “She’s a [...]
Council Speaker Christine Quinn told voters Thursday night she couldn’t promise to endorse the Democratic nominee for mayor, leaving open the possibility the city’s most powerful Democratic official could endorse Mayor Bloomberg. “After the democratic process, when we know who the two individuals are who are running, whatever lines they’re running on, I’m going to [...]
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is proposing to raise income taxes for those making over $297,000 a year. In her state of the city address tomorrow, Quinn will ask that rates be hiked for the top three brackets, from about a half percent to just under 1 percent for those earning $1.2 million or more. [...]
The Board of Elections’ failure to process more than 3,500 new-voter registration forms for two months is “more than alarming,” City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said yesterday as she demanded an explanation from election officials. Citing a report in The Post about the embarrassing oversight, the speaker ordered a council hearing on the issue on [...]
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn set a showdown vote for Thursday on Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to change the term limits law, raising speculation she’s rounded up enough votes to pass it. Quinn spokesman Jamie McShane had no explanation for why two other bills calling for the issue to be put to a referendum were not [...]
After more than a week of deliberation, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced Sunday afternoon that she has changed her position and will support Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s bid to overturn the city’s term-limits law. Quinn, who is term limited herself, said a third Bloomberg term would offer the city a “continuity of leadership” in the [...]
Two weeks ago, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg boasted to his aides that he would easily win passage of a measure to give himself the chance to run for a third term. But now, facing an unanticipated backlash against a plan that was hatched with a handful of fellow billionaires and business moguls, the mayor is [...]
In the widening scandal that has revealed the peculiar accounting methods of the New York City Council, a harsh light has been cast on Christine C. Quinn, the Council speaker, who is being asked to answer for a system not of her own making. Defined by phrases like “phantom organizations” and “slush funds,” the tale [...]
