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LETITIA JAMES
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HEARINGS CHAIRED, 1/1/10-7/29/10
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2010 MEMBER ITEM RANK
163.5 141.16 127.5 119.16 114.91 105.41 102.5 96.08 95.41 93.91
RAW SCORE
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THOMAS WHITE, JR.
ALBERT VANN
MICHAEL NELSON
JAMES VACCA
LEROY COMRIE
LEWIS FIDLER
ANNABEL PALMA
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PASSED INTRODUCED
EDITORIAL RATING OF SIGNIFICANT COMMITTEE CHAIRS, SCALE OF 1, 2 AND 3
July JULY 28, 28, 2010 2010
ROBERT JACKSON
DOMENIC RECCHIA
MEMBER
COUNCILMEMBER COUNTDOWN COUNCIL BILLS BILLS COMMITTEE
here are many factors that make for a powerful politician. Winning hard-fought campaigns is one. Seeming so strong that no one of note even bothers with a hard-fought campaign is another. And, of course, there are the incalcuables, like managing a swift and responsive constituent services operation, or how quickly calls to an agency or other government authority result in action. But as for how effective members of the City Council are at City Hall—or, for the next few months, at the Emigrant Savings Bank across the street—there are a few numbers that matter: moving legislation, flexing committee power, and, of course, securing money
for interests out of the city budget. Of course, as speaker, Christine Quinn has the most power in the City Council. That does not mean, though, that the other 50 can or should be lumped in together. And as this (admittedly unscientific) assessment shows, they do not. Using the information of how everyone other than Quinn has performed in the first six months of the new session and building it into a formula to weight them properly, City Hall presents its first annual accounting of where, sometimes surprisingly, the power in the Council lays. To see how we weighted the different aspects of government work on the Council, turn to the bottom of the next page.
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