The City Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, who is expected to run for mayor, may be jeopardizing a future endorsement from the United Federation of Teachers.
The rookies, some still teenagers, have come to recognize how their off-court wardrobe can influence their public image, and as such, their future endorsement deals.
When the House Speaker, Paul D. Ryan, the other day postponed, or rethought, any future endorsement of Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican Presidential nominee, he did it in the name of his party, an entity that Ryan, among others, seems to view as a fragile thing, to be regarded with brotherly affection, the very opposite of Trump's view of the party as a sort of speed bump.
Even mighty Nike reported last month that its future endorsement obligations had declined 10% from the previous year to $3.8 billion.
"While we believe he would be a great President of the United States, in the end Joe decided not to run, and our union will now hold our powder dry and likely wait until the New Year to consider any decisions on any future endorsement," IAFF General President Harold Schaitberger said in a statement to The Huffington Post. .
But now, he said, "I think the spell has been broken," to the point that future Murdoch endorsements, in the wake of the scandal, would be "more double-edged," likely to hurt as much as to help politically.
By rights, "Mother Courage" should open for Ms. Streep the same future in advertising endorsements that awaits grand-slam sports champions.
After the Senate approved the weapons ban and gun show background checks last week, the association's executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre, e-mailed lawmakers, urging them to kill the immunity bill and reminding them that their votes would count "in our future evaluations and endorsements of candidates".
Lemmy, meanwhile, is less pensive on the future of tech endorsements and their potential impact on future generations.
