Doug Muzzio
Doug Muzzio
attacked bad exactly left
Being attacked by the left is not exactly a bad thing right now.
dinner rather
I'd rather go to dinner with Rudy, wouldn't you? Rudy has more personality.
competent expecting period politics replaced somebody sort tribal voters
I think voters are expecting a competent mayor, somebody who can get things done and get them done fairly. We're in sort of a post-party politics period here, where the traditional tribal politics are being replaced by a competency model.
field mike playing standing top
Not only is the playing field not level, it's vertical, and Mike Bloomberg is standing on top of it.
charm charming
Actually, I think Rudy has more charm than Eliot.
desk dust
There was enough dust on his desk to have an archeological dig.
freddy giving news step
They're not giving Freddy a breath. They're not giving him one news cycle. They step on every one of his stories.
money raising
It's mind-blowing. She is raising money at a presidential level.
brought majors
They brought him up from the minors, and it doesn't look like he can play in the majors yet.
early hurt increases mayor pain tax time took
The mayor took his pain early on. Tax increases were substantial and hurtful, but they hurt early on, and he had time to recover.
ceases chest dominating
What does he get out of it? He ceases to be irrelevant. There's chest thumping here. He's saying, 'I'm not irrelevant.' He's in the news. He's dominating the agenda.