“The council speaker is trying desperately to be all things to all people. She believes she can become the next mayor by splitting all the babies in half.  Stop-and-frisk, wage mandates, economic development, education, union power, taxing and spending — she tries always to thread the needle between competing interests.” It is a “ham-handed effort to simultaneously pander to opposites. . . Thus, she wants the business community to believe she shares its concerns about wage and sick-leave laws, while telling the unions her heart is with them on the same issues. She collected money from both sides, and both now demand their piece of flesh.”