Ben Smith @ Politico reports the following:

President Obama has a packed day of international statesmanship at the United Nations tomorrow, but he’s squeezing in a bit of domestic politics as well.

Mayor Ed Koch, his longtime aide George Arzt confirmed, received an unexpected invitation to a gathering of dignitaries the American President typically hosts during his New York visit. This is far from a private audience, but it does seem to be the beginning of a courtship of the former New York Mayor who emerged as a real thorn in Democrats’ side this summer. Koch had not, Arzt said, been invited to the event in Obama’s first two years, and the invitation is hardly a reward for loyalty.

Neither Koch nor the White House suggested any private meeting with the president tomorrow, though with hizzoner having established himself as a kind of large-scale, symbolic swing voter, I suspect they have a good deal to talk about.

(Source: Politico)