Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@mattizcoop @republicofspin @tomwatson Especially when supporters of Eric Adams are denouncing the alliance that is standard with rank-choice voting between Garcia and Yang as "vote suppression." What makes this charge particularly hollow is that Garcia-Yang tried to reach out to Maya Wiley. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MelindaKCMO I'll email you with my final (almost) vote choices for mayor. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@mattizcoop @tomwatson Could easily happen. And if it does, I think the next mayor would be Kathryn Garcia. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@mattizcoop New Politics NYC Division: Waiting until October for the Board of Elections to decipher Ranked Choice Voting. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@FapsOfMeaning @chaubtu @NoreenMalone @jdeleon1291 @RepBarbaraLee I'm sorry that they got the narration wrong, then. But my only responsibility for the podcast was my own comments, so I'm relieved that I wasn't personally at fault. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Best detail in great @AnnieLinskey piece: "President Biden...nominated the senator’s wife, Gayle Manchin, to co-chair a commission that distributes funds to the Appalachian region, as the White House has ramped up its campaign to woo the senator." — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@republicofspin Serious thanks. I discovered there is indeed a judicial primary in my Manhattan district and only one candidate is approved by the Bar Association. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@republicofspin Yikes. You mean I have to do judges too? I haven’t felt this much deadline pressure since midterms in college. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

A measure of the lack of enthusiasm in NYC mayor’s race. No one was leafleting in front of Zabar’s on Sunday afternoon before the primary, though the Garcia-Yang tag team was there earlier. Given the slow pace of early voting, there are a lot of primary day voters out there. — PolitiTweet.org

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I am in full panic. I have less than 48 hours to fill out my full NYC ranked-choice ballot. Maybe if I give up sleeping, I can work out five choices for each office. And, yes, I know I am not legally obligated to do a full ballot but I am a good citizen. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@FapsOfMeaning @chaubtu @NoreenMalone @jdeleon1291 @RepBarbaraLee If that was me in the podcast, I am mortified by the error. I should have made clear that the point was that Wellstone was the only “no” vote facing a competitive reelection campaign. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JillDLawrence You should see the Biden train station. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@daveweigel @maggieNYT A great campaign requires compelling candidates rather than just the weirdness of ranked choice voting and vegan ex-cops. — PolitiTweet.org

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@heathbrown @keithhernandez If only he could play defense. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@ClydeHaberman @nicolegelinas It is a variant on the joke that the food was terrible but at least the portions were small. The NYC Board of Elections will take forever to maybe do it wrong. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

RT @rollcall: OPINION: Nothing has fostered more bad policies than the misremembering and misapplication of history, @MrWalterShapiro write… — PolitiTweet.org

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@TweetBenMax You mean the second hour of key debates about as findable as a note in a bottle dropped off the Staten Island ferry. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ClydeHaberman More relevant question for some of us: What did you have? And how was it? — PolitiTweet.org

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@harrysiegel Wouldn’t want news-side reporting to get in the way of the hyperbolic verities of the edit page about New York. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@John_Kass As a connoisseur of farewell columns -- and still rewriting mine for USA Today from 2004 in my head -- I want to say that you wrote a lovely send-off and good luck with what comes next. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@DougJBalloon Can't Sinclair Lewis get some love? In all the Zenith, Ohio, bars that I frequent, George Babbitt is the most famous Realtor of them all. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

An NYC tweet: The backlash against Tali Farhadian Weinstein's massive self-funding in the DA's race is probably costing her votes. It's the Bloomberg/Tom Steyer lesson from the 2020 primaries -- too much money can actually be self-defeating. https://t.co/3OfCHtmsEA — PolitiTweet.org

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@TweetBenMax Doesn't look good for Yang on that ballot. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

The second half of this tweet is so important in covering wars, politics or anything. Don't blindside your sources about what you're writing -- and don't manipulate people as if you were a would-be Perry Mason with a reluctant witness on the stand. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Totally support making Juneteenth a federal holiday. But I also remember GOP complaints that we can’t make Election Day a holiday because work productivity would suffer. I would rather have Election Day a holiday than the awkward President’s Day. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SendStephen Nope. That wasn’t on my watch. Harrison is embarrassing enough. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamieStiehm Whew! — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@JamieStiehm You're saying that you want me to cut back? My apologies if I have overburdened you with my fourth tweet of the day. (Actually, this reply is my 5th, but I'm not sure it counts). — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

We have all done this. When I was a Jimmy Carter speechwriter I somehow wrote in a speech that William Henry Harrison (died 1841) and not Benjamin Harrison brought electricity to the White House. And, yes, Carter actually said "William Henry Harrison." — PolitiTweet.org

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@markzbarabak Me too. — PolitiTweet.org