Democratic Mayoral Race Timeline of Events

* July 14, 2005: City Council reveals that Mr. Miller’s taxpayer-funded campaign mailings cost $1.6 million and were sent to 5.8 million New Yorkers citywide. In June, a spokesman for Mr. Miller had told reporters that the mailings cost only $37,000 and were sent to more than 100,000 New Yorkers.* July 8, 2005: Ms. Fields abruptly fires her campaign manager, Joseph Mercurio, who in turn alleges that he is being made a scapegoat for the candidate’s campaign-flier woes.* July 6, 2005: Ms. Fields tells reporters that she does not know the identity of “the two Asians” who appear next to her in a doctored image on a campaign flier.* June 30, 2005: Ms. Fields is the only Democratic candidate to criticize the mayor directly for his handling of hate crimes, one day after white man clubs a black man in the Howard Beach section of Queens.* June 26, 2005: New York’s largest gay rights group, the Empire State Pride Agenda, endorses Mr. Miller.* June 22, 2005: In a rare defeat as City Council speaker, Mr. Miller fails to win enough votes to override Mayor Bloomberg’s veto of a bill on garbage collection. As a result, the city is expected to establish a trash transfer station in Mr. Miller’s district.* June 15, 2005: Ms. Fields calls on the city’s Campaign Finance Board and the Conflicts of Interest Board to investigate a taxpayer-funded mass mailing that Mr. Miller sent from his City Council office to more than 100,000 residents citywide.* May 23, 2005: Mr. Miller receives the endorsement of the Queens County Democratic Organization.* April 29, 2005: Two of Mr. Ferrer’s media strategists, David Axelrod and Chad Clanton, quit the former Bronx borough president’s campaign citing “strategic differences.”* April 20, 2005: The Reverend Alford Sharpton says he will not endorse a candidate for the Democratic mayoral nomination, in a move widely interpreted as a blow to Mr. Ferrer, who had won Mr. Sharpton’s backing in 2001.* April 18, 2005: Mr. Ferrer promises to impose a $1 billion stock-transfer tax on Wall Street to fund improvements to city schools. The proposal is widely criticized as anti-business.* April 12, 2005: Mr. Weiner unveils a “middle-class tax cut,” promising a 10% reduction in the city’s marginal income-tax rate for individuals earning $150,000 a year or less.* April 1, 2005: A powerful Democratic congressman from Harlem, Charles Rangel, endorses Ms. Fields. Mr. Rangel had backed Mr. Ferrer in 2001.* March 15, 2005: At a meeting of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, Mr. Ferrer says of the 1999 shooting of an unarmed West African immigrant, Amadou Diallo, by police officers: “I don’t believe it was a crime.”

Democratic Mayoral Race Timeline of Events

Democratic Mayoral Race Timeline of Events

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