MB Civic

Jane ..

it doesn’t bode well for Mayor Mike that the campaign spearheaded by his girlfriend Diana Taylor, namely Reshma Saujani’s primary challenge to Carolyn Maloney, was such an enormous failure. The campaign brain trust included Taylor, long-time Bloomberg supporter Jerry Speyer of Tishman Speyer, and Bloomberg financial adviser Steve Rattner. (Rattner’s wife Maureen White, who also pulled out all the stops for Reshma, is the former DNC finance chair.) .. Team Bloomberg thought they could kill two birds with one stone — install a Bloomberg loyalist, and send a message to members of Congress that they could and would exact a price for perceived lack of loyalty to Wall Street. In this case, by taking out Carolyn Maloney, who backed the financial regulation bill

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