In yesterday afternoon's Playbook: Michael Kruse is joining the NYT at the end of March, Breaker’s Lachlan Cartwright scooped. He currently works at POLITICO.
“I’m not the type of person that’s like, ‘you have to be a veteran — Iraq War veteran,’” says @gallego.senate.gov. “This is a democracy. We’re still one, and there’s a lot of people that can bring valuable experience and knowledge. But ...”
This week's @politico.com Friday Read comes from @caldermchugh.bsky.social and @sambbenson.bsky.social.
Carol Moseley Braun: “Ego is a funny thing. Robin has cut into votes that Juliana should have had. Between the two of them, they’ll probably wind up electing Raja.”
“There’s a brutality and cruelty now even beyond what existed before. You can just feel it.”
Thank you, Jeremy.
Can't wait to read what you write!
Thank you, Andy!
Thank you, Jen.
Thank you so much.
Been following you since your time in Tampa, and have always greatly admired your work.
Congrats, and can’t wait to keep reading.
Start March 23. Ready to get to work.
“Now you have an arena where you have a large number of legitimately qualified individuals running but there’s no apex predator.”
“A lot of general MAHA voters don’t necessarily have a strong party affiliation, they’re just going to pick who is going to get it done.”
“The excitement there was with the Hispanic community and the Republican Party is kind of waning.”
“It’s a good rule of thumb to never throw your boss under the bus and with him in particular I think it’s the cardinal sin and she certainly violated that.”
“I feel confident that I’ve got the constitutional position right. And I’m hopeful that the politics will follow later.”
“Representation is not about telling people what they want to hear, it’s about telling them the truth. I can sleep easy with my record of service.”
“There was a lot of organic anger at folks’ power bills across the state. And so a few of us looked at that and said, ‘Well, if we can harness that anger into getting folks to recognize that where this happens is at the Public Service Commission level, we could really get a campaign going.’”
“When these events are awarded, they’re concepts. They’re ideas. They feel good. But between the award and the event itself, the world changes. Politics change. Leaders change.”
