Smoke-Filled Rooms – City of Smoke

Smoke-Filled Rooms – City of Smoke https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Sat, 26 Dec 2015 02:29:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 Michael Rosano, City Hall Insider https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/4678 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/4678#respond Sun, 24 May 2015 16:19:09 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=4678 Continue reading]]> https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/4678/feed 0 How I Got Out of Politics https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1967 Tue, 17 Feb 2015 16:42:16 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1967 Eleven percent of all eligible New Yorkers voted on Tuesday, November 2, 1999. I was among them. I was also among a smaller minority. I was a candidate myself---for Richmond County district attorney on the Right to Life ticket. How did an Irish Catholic regular Democrat come to this? ]]> Campaign Lit, Part 1 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/5574 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/5574#respond Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:22:58 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=5574 Continue reading]]> https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/5574/feed 0 Requiescat L.D. Knox https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/5331 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/5331#respond Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:13:23 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=5331 On May 29, 2009, The New York Times published the obituary of L. D. "None of the Above" Knox, 80, a farmer and politician from Winnsboro, Louisiana who had crusaded for over forty years to make "None of the Above" an option on the Pelican State's ballots. In 1979, he went so far as to make "None of the Above" his additional middle name and used it thereafter whenever he ran for office. ]]> https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/5331/feed 0 Just Say “NOTA” https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/5248 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/5248#comments Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:11:01 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=5248 Continue reading]]> https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/5248/feed 1 Another Last Hurrah? https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/4288 Sun, 03 May 2009 12:25:25 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=4288 As becomes a citizen, I have occasionally run for public office. As Edouard Herriot, four times Prime Minister under the Third Republic, said whenever he was running for anything, from conseilleur municipal to President de la Republique, "I have placed myself at the disposal of my friends and the]]> McCain and Me https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/4321 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/4321#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:51:55 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=4321 John S. McCain won the New Hampshire Republican Presidential primary on February 1, 2000. No one reported the result of the Republican vice-presidential primary. Even the victor didn't know the results for a week, until he checked the web site of the New Hampshire Secretary of State on Tuesday]]> https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/4321/feed 1 Mayoral Election Digest: The End of Ideology https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/4683 Tue, 04 Dec 2001 12:31:51 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=4683 The revolutionary left did not contest this year's municipal elections. The Communist, Socialist, Socialist Labor, and Socialist Workers tickets were not on the ballot. Somehow the ballot seemed incomplete without the SWP's striking emblem: a lightning bolt shattering the chains of capitalism]]>