Thursday, March 28, 2024
Miles from the Mainstream
D. R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor
Kerry Courtesy of Campaign Edwards

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.

Kerry over Edwards.


Blitzer announces Edwards' decision.


Not a full Edwards house.


Councilperson Bill de Blasio