As rising political star John Liu prepares to ascend to the second-highest elected office in New York City, Liu must figure out the type of working relationship he wants with the recently re-elected mayor, Mike Bloomberg.

Today's the big election day in parts of the country. We're keep an eye on results from New York City where several Asian Americans including John Liu, Kevin Kim, Margaret Chin, Peter Koo and Yen Chou are up for election, as well as Maine and Washington with their marriage equality referendums. 

Tuesday September 29th, 2009 is the runoff election in the Democratic Primary for the New York City Comptroller.  The turnout is expected to be abnormally low, so in this case every vote really DOES count.  In the past week conservative news media in the city have intensified a smear campaign against John Liu, a campaign that is rooted in, dare i say it, racism.  Certain forces in this city are committed to preventing the first Asian-American from holding citywide office by inventing false ties to shadowy conspiracies.  They pain br

When the New York Times published this article about the recent primary in Gotham city, "Poll finds Asians overwhelmingly backed Liu," they were merely stating the obvious. Anyone who has done any election work, knows that people are often partial to members of their own tribe.