Kevin Sheekey’s Prezzing Schedule

The question is what was Kevin Sheekey working on in March 2007 that was so hush-hush:

Deputy Mayor Kevin Sheekey — who’s laying the groundwork for a possible presidential run by Mayor Bloomberg — released 18 months of his private schedules yesterday containing more than 600 passages that were blacked out.

Records of every meeting Sheekey had on nine days in March 2007 were redacted.

City lawyers took markers to virtually every page of Sheekey’s schedules covering Jan. 16, 2006 to June 29, 2007, a period when the Bloomberg presidential rumors were gaining traction.

In all, The Post counted 626 redactions.

Stu Loeser, the mayor’s spokesman, said the schedules released under a Freedom of Information Act request filed last year conformed to the law by withholding information that was personal or security-related.

“Entries are redacted for personal or security reasons,” said Loeser. “If a lunch or an afternoon cup of coffee is personal and not city business, it gets redacted.”

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City workers can’t engage in politics on government time, but are free to do what they want on their own time.

Doug Muzzio of Baruch College said the redactions raised an obvious question: “What is he doing during those hours?”