Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Just a small reminder that DC statehood would have produced a 60-vote filibuster-proof majority for a 1/6 Commission assuming that Toomey and Burr, who were absent today, voted "yes." — PolitiTweet.org

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@ShijeSings @mayawiley @TeamMayaNYC Just to satisfy my curiosity (and I truly am mystified) what so enraged you about my piece? I interviewed your candidate and quoted her accurately. Seriously, I'm puzzled. — PolitiTweet.org

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The NYC mayoral primary will test the power of the anti-crime vote, demonstrate how far left the Democrats are willing to go and make choices about the future of urban life after the pandemic. But, boy, do I miss vibrant candidates. https://t.co/I5XXWbP8YH — PolitiTweet.org

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My guide to the June 22 New York mayoral primary. The race may lack old-fashioned excitement (there's no Norman Mailer or Bella Abzug on the ballot), but it remains the most important election of 2021. https://t.co/I5XXWbP8YH — PolitiTweet.org

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I am not an expert. But isn’t there a certain percentage of people who just agree with any question from an authority figure? They figure that there must be some truth if they’re asking about pedophiles. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @newrepublic: The New York City mayoral race used to be a reliably entertaining fight between outsized personalities and master operator… — PolitiTweet.org

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Some Democrats sometimes eat dessert. Tape at 11:00. — PolitiTweet.org

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Everyman Wesley Clark also told me during that campaign that he couldn’t decide after leaving the military whether to make $40 million or run for president. It is a common dilemma for grocery-store baggers. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @billjamesonline: If the people running baseball were in charge of the Olympics, they would cut the Marathon to 22 miles because it's ju… — PolitiTweet.org

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@mcopelov Nothing is as good as Alec Guinness as Smiley. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Bencjacobs @mattklewis I am still haunted by Willie Stargell and his Pirate crew in the 1979 World Series. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @chaubtu: And on our Slate Plus episode, Noreen and @jdeleon1291 talk about the tricks to interviewing politicians. And we hear more fro… — PolitiTweet.org

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@emilymbadger @sangerkatz Godot. — PolitiTweet.org

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John Warner was a charming and laudable political figure. He was also about the last living link to Richard Nixon's 1960 campaign -- and Warner was with him in California on election night and the day after. I recall many glorious 1960 stories from a lunch with Warner in 2017. — PolitiTweet.org

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@AnnieLinskey Of course, the ospreys travel in pairs. It's mating season. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JRubinBlogger Here on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, I can feel the rumbles of fear from the NY prosecutors who are suddenly reeling from Trump's ironclad legal argument. — PolitiTweet.org

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So let me see if I get this right. In Trump's eyes, he is invulnerable to prosecution if he's president. And he's also invulnerable if he's thinking of running for president or pretending to think about running. I guess he could have been prosecuted as a teen-ager in Queens. — PolitiTweet.org

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@EricLisann @HarryGewanter That isn’t how I read the Washington Post piece. But my reading could be wrong. — PolitiTweet.org

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@EricLisann @HarryGewanter I presume -- but don't know for sure -- that this panicked request to the flight attendant was not to give him away once the plane was on the ground. — PolitiTweet.org

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@drnelk Well played. — PolitiTweet.org

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One of the saddest elements in the Belarus story: "According to the Instagram story of one woman aboard, Protasevich begged a flight attendant not to give him away. But the Ryanair employee told him that legally they had no choice." https://t.co/3oZi2MWVlV — PolitiTweet.org

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Best line of the weekend courtesy of @mcottle: "If Mitch McConnell, the ruthless, calculating Senate Republican leader, is a shark, [Kevin] McCarthy is a jellyfish, carried spinelessly along by the political currents." https://t.co/ZeekVNn4aO — PolitiTweet.org

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@cjbsc @CNN Actually, you would think that some cable channel would respond to the over-saturation of opinion by actually returning to that old-fashioned model. — PolitiTweet.org

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In the wake of Rick Santorum’s firing by CNN, can I offer a small proposal? Fire all the paid politicians on cable and replace them with journalists and columnists. Go back to the old era when reporters questioned former senators and didn’t see them as cable news colleagues. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lmlauramarsh The Cuomo book is the gold standard for being outrageous. There is no evidence that Boris Johnson suppressed information about Shakespeare to goose his book advance — PolitiTweet.org

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After reading the article about Ellsberg's leaked documents from 1958, I realize that I can never again mockingly refer to the way that Quemoy and Matsu dominated the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debates. My God, nuclear war over those piles of rocks was seriously contemplated. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SenhorRaposa Bear in mind that the NYC mayor's race is a closed primary, so independents and registered Republicans can't vote. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ElizFoxwell @CecereCarl Thanks. I will take a look. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ClydeHaberman Somehow drinking hemlock seems more serious than losing a Twitter platform. — PolitiTweet.org

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This inspiring story is the real-life version of the O. Henry classic, "The Ransom of Red Chief." https://t.co/RrGW2U0NBi — PolitiTweet.org