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As Joe Lhota Deliberates About A 2013 Mayoral Run, His Wife Is His Sounding...

MTA boss Joe Lhota acknowledged Thursday night for the first time that he’s seriously weighing whether to run for mayor. He added that he's enlisting his wife — a Republican fundraising powerhouse — to...

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Conservative Party Leader Mike Long Wants Joseph Lhota To Run For NYC Mayor

Here is the longer version of a story that ran in today's paper on the city mayoral race: Add state Conservative Party Chairman Michael Long to the growing list of those who want MTA Chairman Joseph...

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Still A Mystery To Most, Joe Lhota Leads The 2013 GOP Field For NYC Mayor: Q...

Former MTA Chairman Joe Lhota leads the pack of potential 2013 Republican mayoral candidates, says today's Quinnipiac Poll, but he'd still get stomped by a Democrat in a hypothetical November matchup....

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Rudy Giuliani Ignores The "Nasty Man" Stuff, Calls Ed Koch's Death "A Loss...

The successor former Mayor Ed Koch called a "nasty man" has nothing but kind words for the late leader today. Republican ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani came to the mayoralty after Koch lost the 1989 Democratic...

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Beyond Jerkgate: McDonald, Thompson, Sharpton Trade Jabs On NY Minority...

Sure, we all now have fresh and unsurprising proof that GOP mayoral hopeful Joe Lhota REALLY doesn’t like people calling Rudy Giuliani a jerk.  But it was another of the five 2013 candidates at this...

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Rudy Awakening: 2013 GOP Mayoral Hopeful Joe Lhota Rolls Out Giuliani...

Republican mayoral candidate Joe Lhota has asked a powerful friend to lend his campaign a helping hand -- Rudy Giuliani. Our Jonathan Lemire and I report: Giuliani, who hired Lhota as deputy mayor...

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Rudy Giuliani To Headline Staten Island Fundraiser For Joe Lhota

More in a moment, but as you can see, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani will headine a "cocktails and conversation" fundraiser for the City Hall campaign of his former deputy, Joe Lhota, on April 29. UPDATE:...

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Rudy Giuliani To Staten Island: Support Joe Lhota For Mayor The Way You...

Updated: Rudy Giuliani laid on the hometown charm at his first appearance on the campaign trail for Republican Joe Lhota -- and stuck it to the Democratic mayoral hopefuls by way of President Obama....

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Another Rudy Giuliani In New York Politics? Maybe, He Says

Rudy S. Giuliani said Thursday he is not yet sure he's going to follow his famous cousin into the world of politics. Our Lisa L. Colangelo reports: Giuliani, the second cousin of former Mayor Rudy...

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Rudy Giuliani Says Joe Lhota's Going To Be OK After Port Authority "Mall...

Republican Joe Lhota did the right thing in apologizing for his "mall cops" crack about Port Authority police, and the misstep isn't derailing his campaign -- or so says his old boss, ex-Mayor Rudy...

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GOP's Joe Lhota Employs Rudy Giuliani, 9/11 Imagery In First Mass Mailer Of...

The first mass mailing of Joe Lhota’s mayoral campaign features a photo of him standing side by side with his former boss, Rudy Giuliani, taking command in lower Manhattan just days after 9/11. The...

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John Catsimatidis Has A Rudy On His Side, Too

Rudy Giuliani may be one of Joe Lhota's biggest backers in the race for mayor, but another GOP contender, John Catsimatidis, has a Rudy on his side too. Rudy Washington, who worked with Lhota when the...

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In New Mayoral TV Ad, Rudy Giuliani Says Joe Lhota Kept NYC Running During 9/11

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani ran for president based the leadership plaudits he got after the September 11 attacks, but in a new TV spot, he hands the credit squarely to his ex-deputy, Joe Lhota. "It was...

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Mike Bloomberg: Joe Lhota Isn't The Only Mayoral Candidate With Executive...

A new advertisement in which Rudy Giuliani brags that mayoral candidate Joe Lhota kept the city running during Sept. 11 sent Mayor Bloomberg on a rant about the executive skills of other candidates for...

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Rep. Michael Grimm, Left Off GOP Mayoral Primary Mailer, To Endorse Joe Lhota...

The answer to "Where in the world is Michael Grimm?" is "Not on Joe Lhota mailers" -- but that may change soon.  A Daily Politics tipster sent me a recent Lhota piece highlighting the ex-MTA chief's...

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