New York Mayoral Candidate Christine Quinn Embraces ‘Pushy Broad’ Label

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Obviously, someone at the NYT's doesn't like her...


New York Mayoral Candidate Christine Quinn Embraces ‘Pushy Broad’ Label

By Michael Falcone


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ABC News’ Michael Falcone reports:

“I have always said I’ve had a big personality, and I’ve always said I’m a pushy broad, and I’ve always said I want to get things done,” New York City Council Speaker and mayoral contender Christine C. Quinn in an interview with MSNBC on Wednesday. “Sometimes to get things done you have to be aggressive.”

Quinn was responding to questions about a scathing portrayal of her on the front page of Tuesday’s New York Times, which listed example after example of Quinn’s temper and verbal tirades over the years — directed at both colleagues and enemies alike.

“She has threatened, repeatedly, to slice off the private parts of those who cross her,” the nearly 1,700-word Times piece noted. One former city official described being on the receiving end of one of her outbursts: ”It’s just old-fashioned screaming, in a way that you just don’t hear that much.”

But in both her MSNBC appearance as well as a separate interview Wednesday on CNN, Quinn embraced her hard-charging, expletive-spewing, threat-wielding depiction.

“At times you need to be forceful to get things that are stuck unstuck,” she said in the CNN interview. “I have big emotions and I care deeply about delivering for New Yorkers and sometimes that means you got to push things forward — and I think New Yorkers know that. This is a tough town.”

Quinn is undoubtedly the most prominent of several women candidates running this year in mayoral races across the country in cities like Los Angeles, Houston and Albany, N.Y. And her portrayal in The Times has sparked a firestorm of commentary online.

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1. She cares so much about NY that she cuts funding

for social programs in a section of Queens because a council member there offended her wafer-thin ego by grabbing a headline.

I won't pretend to know the ins-and-outs of the funhouse she has to live in every day, but that article is pretty damning. Not much to embrace there.