NY Daily News owner who ordered editors to endorse Hillary is a proud union buster

[brentspeak]

Mortimer Zuckerman, owner of the NY Daily News:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson/are-public-employee-union_b_578953.html

But he’s not with us not when it comes to labor. Last week Zuckerman wrote an op-ed, titled The Crippling Price of Public Employee Unions at US News, and Breaking the Public Sector Unions’ Stranglehold on State and Local Governments at Huffington Post, telling us how public employee unions are harming the country. (The Huffington version has about 2000 comments so far - mostly pro-labor. The US News version has about 70 comments, like “Outlaw Unions of any kind.”)

Oh -- this enthusiastic supporter of Hillary and vociferous hater of Bernie is also, like Hillary "once" was, a Republican:

http://www.politico.com/story/2010/02/zuckerman-talks-with-ny-gop-033112

Real estate and media mogul Mort Zuckerman has reached out to New York Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox about a possible Senate campaign this year, Cox told the Albany Times Union:

"I have talked with Mr. Zuckerman, and he has expressed an interest in running for the Senate," Cox told the paper. "He's very concerned about the direction this country is going and, as I think many Americans are, as the most recent elections have proven, whether Massachusetts or here in New York, Nassau County, Westchester County. He has always wanted to serve his country and thinks perhaps he can serve by running for the United State Senate."

The New York Times reported last Friday that Zuckerman was toying with the idea of challenging Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand as a Bloomberg-style centrist Republican, but Zuckerman avoided direct comment in an interview with POLITICO.

[revbones]

1. Given that it was never a question of who the paper would endorse

Also the difference in interviews was quite telling.

[dchill]

2. I'm never disappointed in the NY Daily News...

Like I am with real newspapers sometimes.

[amborin]

3. this needs wide publicity

[beam me up scottie]

4. As if owning a sleazy tabloid wasn't bad enough...