… As Seen Through the Vista of the Images Taken at the Election Night HQ of William C. Thompson III
Part 1
Podium four hours before Thompson took the stage.
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Jonathan Mena’s Pictorial Wrap Up of the 2009 Mayoral Race …
Monday, November 9th, 2009November 3, 2009, William Thompson III’s Election Night Headquarters
Sunday, November 8th, 2009The WORD’s Senior Editors/Producers Andrea Leon, Ashley Carpenter and Jonathan Mena were there. Pictures, blogs, video/YouTube are in the works. Yep, even though the election is bye-bye there is still news that needs to be reported.
Stay tune.
Senior Editor Andrea Leone, far left; Senior Editor Ashley Carpenter, center, videotaping. Senior Editor Jonathan Mena not in this picture.
Post Script:
2009 Mayoral Race: Low Voter Turnout – Yawn
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009By Jonathan Mena
WORD Senior Editor/Producer
jonathanmena.nyc@gmail.com
http://twitter.com/jonathanmena
New York City – Reminiscent of this past September’s New York Democratic Primary, low voter turnout is expected for today’s Mayoral race. News outlets in New York have been giving more attention to the Governors race in Jersey than the Mayors race in New York. Although Thompson is gaining on the Billionaire Mayor, according to news and polling information, he will need a Hail Mary toss to beat Bloomberg and his double-digit lead.
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How Many Killed Today?
Monday, November 2nd, 2009By Ed Kent
November 1 – It is a well known fact that our leading newspapers are laying off reporters who are qualified to do in depth research. The news that reaches most Americans comes from TV and radio channels focused on advertising catching stuff – the latest child murder, serial killers, and occasional news flashes or largely brief and interrupted interviews with some knowledgeable and other intentionally deceiving commentators.
Personally, I scan a series of net sources each day that I can trust and listen to a few in depth interview programs and then do my blogs. The knowledgeable people have made it clear that Afghanistan is not Iraq.
NYPD Blooper
Monday, November 2nd, 2009Let’s see what happens with this:
October 31, 2009
Paul J. Browne
Deputy Commissioner, Public Information
One Police Plaza – Room 1320 
New York, N.Y. 10038
Dear Deputy Police Commissioner Browne,
On Friday, October 23, about 2 p.m., I arrived at City Hall to videotape footage of the front of City Hall for a student journalism project and was told by the officer operating the screening machine that I couldn’t pass through because “they” didn’t want anyone to videotape the building. So, I am writing to learn what are the guidelines. This was not my first time at City Hall to take pictures and/or videotape, so I would like to know if there are have been any changes.
Thanks,
Gregg Morris
Assistant Professor
Hunter Collegegmorris@hunter.cuny.edu
Sent to Cristine Quinn, Speaker, 12:41 a.m. October 26
A.C. 360 Special Project: Who Will Politically Smart Hunter Students Support in the November 3 Election for the City Hall Crown
Sunday, November 1st, 2009By Senior Editor/Producer Ashley Carpenter
Interviewed for this special Youtube project were, one, campus leaders from Undergraduate Student Government and the Student Political Science Club, two, student activists and those from other student spheres of campus influence, three, students savvy about what’s going on in their communities.
Book Signing, Thursday, October 30, 2009 – Friendly Visions
Sunday, November 1st, 2009
Packed room.
Professor Ralph Engelman, who teaches at the Brooklyn campus of Long Island University, talking about his biography of Fred Friendly. Friendly’s wife was there and actively participated. There, being Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Avenue, first floor. Almost SRO.
Random Shot – Couldn’t Resist the Luminosity of the Pea Green
Sunday, November 1st, 2009
Irresistible
What’s to Be Made of This “Positive” News That Thompson Could Dump the Term Limits Miscreant
Saturday, October 31st, 2009October 29, 2009 press press release printed in its entirety because of insufficient savvy to gauge its significance:
Momentum Continues to Shift to Thompson
Trails by Three Points: 44 percent to 41 percentPolling completed last week by Garin Heart Yang Research Group, run by pollster Geoff Garin, showed there has been a significant shift and the race has moved closer toward Bill Thompson.
Obama’s Embrace, Lukewarm. A Judas Kiss?
Sunday, November 8th, 2009Thompson
Sometime deep into the evening of November 3 at the Election Night HQ of William C. Thompson III, NY Governor David Patterson, who had received a tepid applause after he took to the podium, said what needed to be said as a surge swept the Hilton third-floor room that an upset could be in the making as Thompson’s numbers seemed to be growing strongly in the hours after the polls had closed: QMfE, “A lot of Democrats this day stayed home, dropped the ball.” He spoke about an hour before the tenor of the evening, subtle but obvious, began tipping to OMG, he/we might actually defeat the Term Limits billion dollar mayor.
Then, of course, that surge tanked.
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