Howard Wolfson is counselor to the Mayor of New York City

Mayor of New York City

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/nyregion/27hiring.html?hpw and a Democratic

Democratic Party (United States)

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 political strategist. He replaced Kevin Sheekey

Kevin Sheekey

Kevin Sheekey is an American businessman and political adviser. He is head of government relations and communications at Bloomberg L.P. and chairman of Bloomberg Government. Sheekey previously served as deputy mayor for government affairs for the City of New York City under Mayor Michael R....

 as Deputy Mayor of New York City for governmental affairs. http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/03/technically-howard-wolfson-now-has-jurisdiction-over-83-million-people.html

A native of New York

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, Wolfson graduated from the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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 and holds a Masters in U.S. History from Duke University

Duke University

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. He first worked for U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey

Nita Lowey

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 (D-NY) as her chief-of-staff and press secretary, and was executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee

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 from 1998 to 2000. He served as communications director for the U.S. Senate

United States Senate

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 campaigns of Charles Schumer

Charles Schumer

Charles Ellis "Chuck" Schumer is the senior United States Senator from New York and a member of the Democratic Party. First elected in 1998, he defeated three-term Republican incumbent Al D'Amato by a margin of 55%–44%. He was easily re-elected in 2004 by a margin of 71%–24% and in 2010 by a...

 (1998), Hillary Clinton (2000, 2006), and Ned Lamont

Ned Lamont

Edward Miner "Ned" Lamont, Jr. is a businessman and heir and most recently an unsuccessful candidate for the 2010 Democratic nomination for Governor of Connecticut. On May 22, 2010, Lamont received more than fifteen percent of the vote at the state Democratic convention, and appeared on the...

 (2006).

Wolfson was co-chief strategist and communications director for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign

Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2008

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, after which he became managing director at the consulting firm Glover Park Group. He was a senior strategist for New York City

New York City

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 Mayor

Mayor of New York City

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 Michael Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg

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's 2009 re-election campaign

New York City mayoral election, 2009

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. He was a Fox News contributor, and advised Ned Lamont's campaign for governor of Connecticut

Connecticut gubernatorial election, 2010

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. Wolfson is also the author of the music and politics blog Gotham Acme. On September 8, 2008, The New Republic

The New Republic

The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...

's website introduced Wolfson's new blog on its site, called "The Flack."http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_flack/default.aspx

External links

• Interview with Howard Wolfson from Crawdaddy!
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• What Did Celine Dion Do to Hillary Clinton? by Howard Wolfson. Retrieved Nov. 4, 2008.