Being a fan of both New York and politics, I've been keeping an eye on who would succeed Gifford Miller as Speaker of the City Council. It'll be Chris Quinn. That's what I'd been hoping for. She's from Manhattan, the mayor likes her (though she's more "combative" than Giff), Giff likes her, and hey, as an added bonus for the tabloids, apparently she's a lesbian (something I didn't know until this morning). The key to her victory appears to have been winning over the Queens machine. Now I'm not generally a fan of Tom Manton and company - but it strikes me that New York could be in worse hand for the next couple of years than those of Michael Bloomberg and Chris Quinn.
Posted by armand at January 3, 2006 09:20 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics