“She had a press conference to announce she wasn’t running for Mayor?” Maureen Connelly said upon learning on the morning of Oct. 8 that Eva Moskowitz had done just that. “She could’ve put out a statement or had an interview with one reporter.”
Her bemusement was notable for two reasons: Ms. Connelly is a political consultant who had prominent roles in Ed Koch’s first winning campaign for Mayor in 1977 and Michael Bloomberg’s even-more-unexpected triumph 24 years later, and four weeks earlier, she had called Ms. Moskowitz a potentially “formidable candidate” in 2017.
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