the end of the sports diva / oscar speech impediments / they do windows / delisted by marc / mfa near-millionaire Bill Knapp > TOPIC TV guy IntelligencerBradley Tusk campaign manager TV-ad guy for the third straight election. A protégé After honing Senator of Bob Squier, part of the Full Campaign Schumer’s Sunday press Doug Schoen first generation of modern conferences, worked for pollster Democratic consulting. Employment Bloomberg until 2003. Became Former polling partner Close to Schoen. The Bloomberg campaign has Governor Rod Blagojevich’s of Hillary’s Mark Penn and already hired an astounding, No. 2, then left for Lehman master of the overnight Ken Strasma and high-priced, array of talent. Brothers, where he pitched tracking poll. Pushed a vote targeter Not everybody has traditionally plans for privatizing post-partisan Bloomberg Obama’s microtargeting state lotteries. been on the same side. But maybe rivalry potential!White House run. guru who used computers they won’t have to work well to scour thousands of data together. “They’re making sure potential! rivalry points, from magazine their enemy has no ammunition,” subscriptions to census says City Councilman Simcha Maura Keaney demos, to find Felder. “Even if he says to them, field commander voters. ‘Go to Florida and relax,’ it’s still Christine Quinn’s Kevin Sheekey a win-win.” jacob gershman former deputy chief deputy mayor of staff. Helped run Was paid $700,000 to labor group Unite manage Bloomberg’s ’05 race Bill Cunningham Here. and then floated the communications presidential-run balloon. Not adviser (possible) a third-term enthusiast; still, Past campaign he’ll likely call the shots communications behind the scenes. director. Also ran the City Hall press shop for four years. Basil Smikle Hank Sheinkopf consultant, outreach strategist An Anthony Weiner ally Decidedly not post-partisan until last month, he’s lobbyist-adman and Bill Clinton worked for Clinton’s campaign vet. Possibly Senate office and as an aide potential! hired to keep him off rivalry to Fernando Ferrer. Good the mayor’s back. Has worked for defense against Bill with Bloomberg rivals Thompson. Thompson, Ferrer, and Mark Green. Matt Mahoney rivalry Republican outreach potential! Rudy Giuliani loyalist rivalry Larry Blackmon who advised the State Howard Wolfson potential! community outreach Senate GOP in their communications czar The son of the front man failed attempt to keep Josh Isay for the band Cameo, the Former Hillary spokesperson, direct mail their majority. Token he gave up his Fox News gig and mayor’s liaison to the black Republican. lobbying business to come aboard. Runs consulting firm communities. Has held He’s not cheap—probably around Knickerbocker SKD, rolled similar jobs for Schumer, $700,000—but is skilled in the out Caroline Kennedy’s Gifford Miller, and the art of the deft political slur (e.g., disastrous Senate bid. New York Jets. rivalry Close to Schumer, Andrew he once called Bloomberg an potential! Cuomo, and Quinn. Might “out-of-touch billionaire”). Might not get along with not get along with Wolfson Stu Loeser or Sheinkopf. Isay or Sheinkopf. Andrea Batista black ops rivalry Karen potential! Persichilli Keogh Schlesinger Bloomberg’s longtime (potential) labor and women public-policy adviser spokesman, a former L outreach Head of Drum Major Schumer aide, isn’t taking Institute and former Ferrer an official gig but is Adviser to new senator policy guru, she’s well to the expected to take charge of Kirsten Gillibrand, she ran Peter Vallone’s losing left of the mayor; has opposition research, as PHOTOGRAPHS: CHRISTOPHER FURLONG/GETTY IMAGES (BLOOMBERG); FRANCES M. ROBERTS/NEWSCOM (SHEINKOPF); FREDERICK M. BROWN/GETTY IMAGES (WOLFSON) scolded him for portraying he did previously. mayoral bid in ’01. Lobbyist husband used to work taxes as a burden. for Quinn, DC 37. 23.