As the nation’s most popular governor, Cuomo has the potential to be an especially productive surrogate for President Obama. He could appeal to white ethnics in swing states, or rally the social liberals who admire him for having been out ahead of his party (and his president) on same-sex marriage, or perhaps headline a few fund-raisers with the wealthy New York donors who have stocked his own campaign coffers and funded the super PAC-like group dedicated to running pro-Cuomo advertising.
Assuming he wants to do any of that.
Recommended reading: President Obama and Mitt Romney’s common enemy | via Politico
“Campaigns just feel overwhelmed with the volume and increased competition among the players to ‘make’ news, which generally means creating some element of conflict,” McKinnon said.
“It’s an interesting development that presidential campaigns have ceased coddling the press. Or even trying to manage the press. They seem to have concluded they can’t win no matter what they do, so why try. And so they now often seem to adopt a hostile attitude toward the press generally.”
Cory Booker can’t stop saving people as Chris Christie struggles to get his mojo back. [via Azi’s morning briefing, which you can now get in your inbox!]
“David Segal, who was fired from his job as City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez’s spokesman after his seven-year-old conviction for trying to burn down an army recruiting center was made public, is back at work today, a knowledgable source confirmed to me.” (“Me” = Azi)
![This afternoon, on the first anniversary of the killing of the man who authored 9/11, Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani brought pizzas to a firehouse on Sixth Avenue. Then they criticized President Obama for attempting to capitalize on the issue.
“I think politicizing it and trying to draw a distinction between himself and myself was an inappropriate use of the very important event that brought America together, which was the elimination of Osama bin Laden,” Romney said. [Read more]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3d0t4coLb1qc0o3ko1_400.jpg)
This afternoon, on the first anniversary of the killing of the man who authored 9/11, Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani brought pizzas to a firehouse on Sixth Avenue. Then they criticized President Obama for attempting to capitalize on the issue.
“I think politicizing it and trying to draw a distinction between himself and myself was an inappropriate use of the very important event that brought America together, which was the elimination of Osama bin Laden,” Romney said. [Read more]
“If anybody looks at my schedule and sees what I’m doing, it’s not under the radar by any stretch of the imagination,” said Thompson on Friday night, at a party that its host, a political consultant named Steve Kramer, advertised as “the greatest party you will go to in Williamsburg in April this year.”
Would you vote for him?
WHERE ARE THE WOMEN? Rep. Carolyn Maloney was on ABC’s “This Week,” where she reprised her question about a House hearing on contraception, which has raised her profile in recent weeks.
“And I can’t help but keep asking this question, where are the women?” Maloney said, in response to a figure that women make up only 11 percent of the Secret Service. “We probably need to diversify the Secret Service and have more minorities and more women.”
THE MAN BANKS FEAR THE MOST: Wall Street’s gone largely unpunished for its role in wrecking the economy—until New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman came along, according to The American Prospect.
“Eric took the risk of working with the administration,” says an attorney close to him, “because this was the only path that led to the public getting relief from the crisis. This is what you want from a political leader. A ‘pure’ political leader who stands outside the process isn’t very helpful. A political leader who just goes along isn’t helpful either. But to do what Eric did means you have to take an enormous risk. If he fails, if the investigation doesn’t become real, he will have to choose between denouncing the president in an election year or becoming party to something he spent a year denouncing.”
In New York, Gingrich envisions a world of gun-owners
Speaking last night at the New York State Republican Party’s annual dinner in Manhattan, Gingrich said that in “a place like Darfur, if the helpless were able to protect themselves, there’d be fewer murders, fewer robbers, fewer rapists.”
The Republican presidential candidate, who is out of contention but still running, said he recently called for the United States to propose a treaty to the United Nations declaring the right to bear arms a “natural” right of all people.
From the incredible photos archive, via Azi’s morning briefing.
