In The New York Times' telling, the City Council speaker and mayoral hopeful who happens to be openly gay, is "temperamental and surprisingly volatile." The piece have some saying, "This story would never have been written if Christine Quinn was a man."
Citing a charitable sports donation gone bad, Ontario's Superior Court Judge vacated Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's seat on Monday, possibly leaving Canada's largest city mayorless — which is totally fine, if you ask Canadians.
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More New York City voters would rather see Eliot Spitzer, driven from the governor's mansion over a prostitution scandal, and, Anthony Weiner, driven from Congress by sending gross pictures on Twitter, enter next year's crowded mayoral race, than see Alec Baldwin, hilarious star of 30 Rock and Words With Friends plane outbursts jump into politics.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker opened his internet doors to Reddit users in an "Ask Me Anything" session on Sunday. He explained, among other things, what went through his mind when he ran into that burning building.
The disgraced former Congressman is "seriously considering" a run to be New York City's mayor in 2013, and he already has $4.5 million from past campaigns to get him started, says pun filled reports from the New York Post.
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