As Liz reported he would, Rudy Giualini called Queens County Republican Chair Phil Ragusa this morning to make the case for allowing Michael Bloomberg to run in the G.O.P.
Ragusa told me the call was “very short” and friendly, but ultimately didn’t change his attitude. (Ragusa has been critical of Bloomberg.)
Since Bloomberg is not a Republican ...

Michael Bloomberg might have gone and hired John McCain’s former director of communications, Jill Hazelbaker, but it's going to take more than that to impress Phil Ragusa. “I don’t really know who she is," said Ragusa, the Queens County Republican chair. "Is she from New York?” Hazelbaker, is, in fact, from Oregon. “I wish her lots of ...