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Check out the Gifford Miller blog, authored by bro Marshall Miller, for the official Miller family take on last night's debate:

But it wasn't just that Gifford had the best ideas. Gifford also won the debate by focusing on his record. From living wage legislation, to passage of the historic Earned Income Tax Credit, to forcing the Mayor to restore $1.3 billion in cuts to schools, Gifford is the only Democrat with a real record of results for all New Yorkers.

Call me biased - but I was pretty proud of my older brother's victory tonight.

Other points of view:

Ben Smith: In any event, the series of rapid-fire questions did manage to knock the candidates a bit off their talking points and generate some real contrast; they revealed, among other things, that Gifford has thought a bit more about the logistics of actually being Mayor -- how do you get to City Hall? -- than the others, and that Anthony is less haunted by the specter of Rudy.

Bob Hardt: the first official Democratic mayoral debate last night showed that there – GASP! – are actual differences among the four candidates.

Gothamist: there's nothing like seeing City Council Speaker Gifford Miller get all pissy when asked if he would send his kids to public school (they attend private pre-K now). Former Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer tried to redirect criticism from himself to the Mayor, Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields was the only candidate to eagerly say she wanted the Reverend Al Sharpton's endorsement, and Weiner came away with the best one-liners.

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