No Points For 41st Place

...which is where I'll go ahead and assume I tacitly placed in this survey.  Somewhere between 41st and 11 millionth or so, anyway (depending on the state's current population distribution).

Yes, friends, despite the love letter they penned me last year (inasmuch as it was an article about a Republican in a New York City paper and it alleged neither earth-raping nor baby-eating), City Hall News didn't find a spot for me in their Rising Stars: 40 Under 40 feature.

Alas.

The exciting news it that friends of mine occupy fully 7.5% of the list.  Congratulations to NYC blogger and political consultant Karol Sheinin, former NYS Young Republicans State Chairman Jason Weingartner, and Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno's local public affair director Lisa Black!

I can't say each of the other 37 choices is as well-chosen (and a few names pop to mind as more genuinely slighted by omission than I), but these 3 certainly would have appeared on my top-40 list, so all things considered, nice work, City Hall.