When asked about Mayor de Blasio's position on closing the penal colony, a city hall spokesperson pointed me to a column de Blasio wrote in the Staten Island Advance last April, in which he outlined his administration's reform efforts so far.
When asked about Mayor Edwin Lee's recent comment that rising employee costs, if unchecked, could tilt the city into insolvency, Mr. Rosenfield shook his head in dismay.
When asked about Mayor Daley's biggest mistake (excluding the parking meter deal), the candidates were all over the board.
A spokesman for Mr. Bloomberg, Jason Post, when asked about the mayor's 2009 election strategy, said, "The mayor is focused on leading the city, not politics".
On Monday, when asked why the mayor had not had a public event in several days, his spokesman, Edward Skyler, cited "scheduling conflicts".
"You know what, I'm not going to get into a back-and-forth," the governor said when asked about the mayor's comments.
When asked about their mayor yesterday, New Yorkers were as rambunctious as the political landscape itself.
When asked what the mayor thinks of his Iraqi neighbors, Edward Skyler, Mr. Bloomberg's spokesman, said, "The irony isn't lost on him".
On Monday, when asked about a decision by the mayor of San Francisco, Gavin C. Newsom, to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in defiance of a California law, Mr. Kerry said he had not "really kept up with exactly what he is doing".
"What's the wisdom of the ages," Stephens asked, "when a mayor wants to erase the stain of mishandling last winter's snowstorms by forcibly relocating people from his zone of responsibility to places that are somebody else's zone of responsibility?" Should those whose job it is to prepare for the worst be punished because the worst didn't happen?
