About Michael Gianaris Michael Gianaris , Astoria Queens was elected to the State Senate in 2010 after serving in the State Assembly for ten years. The Senator is the Chair of the New York State Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, and oversees all committee activities. Senator Gianaris is a leading reformer. The Senator’s career in public service began as an aide […]
Interview Highlights – “ISIS has had some setbacks in Iraq and Syria, no doubt about it, but it’s still consolidating its control over that territory, it’s gained new adherents across Libya and North Africa and more adherents around the world. We’ve seen the consequences in the attacks in Paris and the attack in San Bernardino, and I think every prospect […]
Interview Highlights – Speaks about her role as CEO & President of WIN (formerly Women In Need). – “We are the largest provider of shelters and supportive housing to homeless families in NYC…families are the forgotten face of homelessness in NYC.” – “80% of people in shelters right now in NYC are families…20% of people in shelters are under five […]
Interview Highlights – The President needs to realize that “climate change is not the number one threat to our country but terrorist attacks from oversees and from within our own nation is.” – The President has “never had a plan to attack terrorists within our country and never came up with a strategy to defeat ISIS.” About Congressman Daniel Donovan Congressman Daniel […]
Interview Highlights – “Mike Bloomberg was a very effective Mayor…people of this city found him to be accountable, responsible…after 12 years in office, he left the city as strong as ever…he has a calling to see this country move in the right direction.” – On the chances of an independent presidential bid of Mike Bloomberg having success: “This is […]
Interview Highlights – “Overall, this month, January, we had a great month. I’m pretty confident…January was probably the safest month we ever had. That’s good news for New Yorkers.” – Will deploy “more resources…to increase the public confidence” in the wake of six subway slashings this month…New Yorkers have a right to be alarmed or concerned — particularly those riding […]
Interview Highlights – ”When snow hits you have eight and a half million customers, and their expectations are very high so I have a new respect for the department in terms of how we mobilize all our forces and get out there to fight snow because the expectations are pretty incredible.” – On winter storm Jonas: It was “a very […]
Interview Highlights – Speaks about the race for the White House and the party primaries. About Robert M. Shrum Robert M. Shrum is a political consultant, who has worked on numerous Democratic campaigns, including the presidential campaigns of Al Gore and John Kerry Shrum wrote the famous speech Ted Kennedy gave at the 1980 Democratic National Convention conceding to and supporting […]
Interview Highlights – “The Employees Rights Act (which has over 100 co-sponsors in Congress) changes the law that was passed in 1947, known as the Taft-Hartley Act, to give employees a 21st Century set of rules concerning employees and unionization. – The Employee Rights Act contains 8 provisions giving employees more rights, including guaranteed secret ballots and the ability to […]
Interview Highlights – “You know, 30 years ago there was a movement started by someone (Ronald Reagan) who establishment Republicans were opposed to. Well let me tell you, I think Trump has got a movement that’s picking up steam, and once a movement picks up that kind of steam, pretty hard to stop.” – “He demonstrated that he’s not going […]
Interview Highlights – “The Zika virus originated in Africa, it was first discovered in 1947…lately there has been a huge outbreak of this virus in South America. It is carried by mosquitoes. If a mosquito bites someone who has the virus and that mosquito flies on and bites another person that second person also gets the virus….1.6 million people have […]
