MARCH
5, 2004 --
LPR got to the
Edwards post-Super Tuesday gathering in Manhattan just in time
to hear murmuring that Senator Edwards would end his presidential
candidacy.
Moments later,
monitors set up at this gathering -- at Bowlmor's Fifth Floor,
previously indoor tennis courts and now a bar and dance floor on
top of the other floors with bowling alleys -- showed CNN reporting
the end of the Edwards campaign.
LPR got one photo
of the monitor in the press area -- with an Edwards poster just
below -- and other photo from a monitor in the staff area that
had a sharper image. LPR was quickly asked to leave the staff section
of the Bowlmor Fifth Floor. A later request to photograph the Kerry
victory statement from the sharper image monitor was denied by
the local campaign press secretary.
For a time, Edwards'
New York State campaign chairman Bill de Blasio was in the press
area. Mr. de Blasio is a New York City councilperson.
Previously, he
was campaign manager for Hillary Clinton's successful U.S. Senate
bid. And before that he was an official at the New York/New Jersey
regional office of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD).
I have never
seen him in person but I received a couple of notes from him when
he was at HUD -- stonewalling, I believe, on the HUD role in the
Dayton Seaside arbitrary and unjust property tax handling that
got new owners at these three Queens, NY apartment buildings, in
which this writer and members of his family had an interest.
No, I did not
ask him any questions. They would have been about Dayton Seaside
-- not about his role in the Edwards Campaign, and a possible Clinton
link to this effort, now ended by the results of the Super Tuesday
primaries. |