Haile Rivera, who once won a dinner with Barack Obama, emailed supporters to say he’s dropping out of the race to unseat City Councilwoman Maria Baez of the Bronx. “I’ve decided to pursue a position in the administration. Not that there’s an offer, but it’s hard to do two things at the same time,” Rivera told ...

Hundreds of same-sex couples were turned away from the New York marriage bureau as part of a coordinated protest. [DN] Jerry Nadler's $3 billion for transit amendment was never approved by the Senate. [TRE] Councilwoman Maria Baez may face a tough challenge for re-election. [WBN] Austin Shafran says State Senate Democrats are definitely getting rid of Joe Bruno's ...

In August, the New York Daily News ran a column headlined, “Maria Baez ‘goes ghetto’ on election power lawyer Stanley Schlein.”
The article describes a time when Baez was at the Board of Elections in the Bronx and was “cursing a blue streak [and] lunged across the table at Stanley.”
Today, Baez introduced a City Council resolution “declaring a symbolic ...

Here's City Councilwoman Maria Baez, an ally of Jose Rivera, describing last night's contentious Bronx County Democratic Party meeting. According to Baez, she is one of four people authorized to start a county committee meeting. She says that when the group alligned with her political opponents failed to open the meeting, she did. Liz Benjamin reports that, according ...