[Ed: choice quote: "Everyone is a suspect"] http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/38996.htm January 15, 2002 -- A new Web site devoted to local politics is breaking one scoop after another - but the one story it won't report is who's behind the effort. PoliticsNY.com, launched Dec. 3 as a sister site to PoliticsNJ.com, beat all the local media in disclosing how Mayor Bloomberg was trying to block Andrew Eristoff from becoming the Manhattan Republican leader. It also was first to reveal that former Mayor Rudy Giuliani was establishing his own repository for his official papers. "Everyone's all hyped up about the site," said City Councilwoman Christine Quinn (D-Manhattan). "You constantly get asked, did you see such and such on their Web site." Proud as they are of their exclusives, the authors - who appear to be well-connected - are no Matt Drudges: They won't step forward to claim credit. "We have chosen to remain anonymous, much like when James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay wrote the Federalist Papers under the pseudonym 'Publius,' " the writers proclaim in a message on the site. One City Hall official said he's treating "everyone as a suspect" because some of the stories have so much background information that "it can't be someone new to the scene." A Post source fingered the chief author as a former staffer in the Giuliani administration.