Quinn’s Private, Volatile Side

As she pursues a high-profile bid for New York City mayor, the New York Times reports that Christine Quinn (D) “has proudly promoted her boisterous personality, hoping that voters will embrace her blend of brashness and personal charm.”

“But in private, friends and colleagues say, another Ms. Quinn can emerge: controlling, temperamental and surprisingly volatile, with a habit of hair-trigger eruptions of unchecked, face-to-face wrath. She has threatened, repeatedly, to slice off the private parts of those who cross her.”