Here’s a picture from Carl Heastie’s holiday party yesterday, the first he’s hosted since becoming the Bronx Democratic County Leader earlier this year. Before the party, Heastie had lunch with two of the Democratic state senators who are refusing to support a fellow Democrat, Malcolm Smith, for Senate majority leader. Ruben Diaz Sr. and Pedro Espada met ...

The presumed (but still disputed) new Bronx Democratic leader, Assemblyman Carl Heastie, says has never been a fan of term limits, but he's also uncomfortable with the role some newspaper editorial boards are playing in the debate about changing them. “It’s a little dangerous for editorial boards to say certain politicians are above the law. This is what ...

Here's City Councilwoman Maria Baez, an ally of Jose Rivera, describing last night's contentious Bronx County Democratic Party meeting. According to Baez, she is one of four people authorized to start a county committee meeting. She says that when the group alligned with her political opponents failed to open the meeting, she did. Liz Benjamin reports that, according ...

Supporters of Assemblyman Carl Heastie's efforts to oust Jose Rivera as Bronx Democratic County leader sent out a public statement just now with an account of what happened at the raucous meeting last night. From the release: Before the Organizational Meeting of the County Committee began, a small group of elected officials that supported Jose Rivera stormed the stage ...