by now you know rep. vito fossella did some very bad things. there are a lot of news articles and blog posts covering his immoral behavior. i dont need to get into that instead i am here to provide a better understanding of just who these potential democratic candidates are that are suddenly being talked about. to start with only one candidate has declared for this race steve harrison. additionall...
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queens gop seeks moderate eloquent moneyraisers. queens gop seeks moderate eloquent moneyraisers the queens republican party has tapped republican consultant robert hornak of the independent young republican club to head lead the candidate recruitment effort for the 2008 and 2009 cycles. aside from ideology hornak told me describing the type of talent hes looking for somebody who is c...
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ive been following the problems in brooklyns 40th district since the special election there a few weeks back with awe at how ridiculous the situation has become. a quick summary of the problems as i understand them does matthieu eugene even reside in the district he was elected to represent or did he when he was supposed to when was he supposed to why wont he provide the proof of residence he cl...
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the politicker has a photo of a mailer from seiu1199 targeting the constituents of senator george oronato dqueens. it looks like the food fight over the governors health care spending proposals is going local. has anyone else received such mailings......
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three years old and in bankruptcy air america lurches along. the brothers green are buying the network but industry watcher brian maloney says theyre not really buying anything at all.......
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yeah so the clinton campaign decided to try a body blow against the obama campaign. and for what for something david geffen who while a supporter of obama is not an official member of his campaign no matter what the clinton campaign says said. no surprise really that clinton is taking jabs at her current closest rival for the nomination but i was really hoping this election would be about ideas ...
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here we go again more reactive decisions being made in the senate. thing is it never should have gotten to this battle. if we had politicians in this state worth anything had any kind of ethical standards or wanted the best for this state they would have called for hevesi to step down. better still hevesi should have resigned himself. not here not in new york where the standards for politicians ar...
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well they went and did it. the key sentence of the article speaking about the assembly instead of a popular vote or the open process that the legislature agreed to conduct last month mr. dinapoli was chosen in a closeddoor meeting of assembly democrats this afternoon. so our new comptroller was chosen by a group who cant even stick to doing things the way they agree to do them. and hes a member ...
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new quinnipiac poll numbers for florida via the politicker 47 to 44 percent giuliani over hillary clinton 47 to 43 percent hillary over john mccain 42 to 40 percent mccain over barack obama 52 to 34 percent hillary over mitt romney 43 to 42 percent mccain over john edwards......
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eliot spitzer throws down the gauntlet there could be no more fundamental dichotomy than the clear voice of the public calling out for reform and the failure of certain leaders to heed that call...i am here as the voice of the people...and my patience with leaders who fail to heed that call has run its course. one target of this message is majority leader joe bruno. spitzer declared war with unc...
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ny post mccain to crash rudys manhattan party the politcker says in an apparent snub to hometown candidate rudy giuliani the state gop has invited john mccain to attend a major republican party fundraiser in new york. i suggest that perhaps the state party has chosen to invite mccain and other gop 2008 hopefuls as a means of making the point to giuliani that they will not be taken for granted ...
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when used as an adjective by a white person the word articulate is almost always applied to a minority usually someone black who sounds white. senator joe biden used it wednesday in his spectacularly stupid assessment of barack obama. the senator from delaware said this to the new york observer on his first day as an official contender for the democratic presidential nomination in 2008 barack ob...
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the politicker is reporting that maureen oconnell the republican candidate for state senate in district 7 might be ducking an appearance at a league of women voters candidate forum with democratic candidate craig johnson tonight out in nassau county. a debate debate in nassau its still unclear whether republican maureen oconnell will participate in scheduled candidate forum tonight along with de...
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tap has previously documented via the brennan center for justice how autocratic assembly and senate rules make new yorks legislature the most dysfunctional in the nation. these rules have to be reauthorized at the beginning of every legislative session. despite the spitzer reform tidal wave both the senate and the assembly reauthorized those autocratic rules on january 1 without discussion contr...
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hey santa thanks for nothin dude. an unacceptable risk for ari fleischer so about that scintillating rumor the one picked up and held firmly at arms length last week by supersub andrew rice about westchester native and former white house press secretary ari fleischer running for the sue kelly seat in 2008... fleischer wishes to put the speculation to rest once and for all. for the record he...
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andrew higgins has an excellent dispatch in the weekend journal on london mayor ken livingston and the alignment of islamofacists with elements of the hard left hezbollah shows that resistance whether fuelled by religion or secular zeal can break governments and roll back the american project says john rees a former editor of the journal international socialism and a leader of britains antiiraq...
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i think we may do this pretty often. below are a collection of linky bits some fun stuff and assorted miscellany that either just didnt fit anywhere else or i just didnt have the time to address properly. mattk d1 lives in tioga county. tioga county is apparently run by total freakin idiots. spitzer staffs up lunchbox on a subject dear to our hearts. behold getting porked. .25 cents and...
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whew so were a week old today and man what a week it has been i thought it might be interesting and perhaps fun to take a look back at the past 7 days as well as take a snapshot of where we are as of today. monday we go live and spend most of the day tracking down bugs. tuesday we get our first big link...from the new york times blog empire zone. not bad for day two eh wednesday i call joe b...
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in new york city for the next few days. when i wrote that alltoobrief d.c. column for the new york press editor harry siegel was shocked to learn id never made it up here. he tried to talk me into catching the chinatown bus. i wouldve done it but it turns out allah had other ideas.......
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wickliffe phone service knocked outwkyctvoh nov 14 2006 a traffic accident at lincoln and euclid avenues has knocked out the phone lines. repair crews estimate it will take two to three days to restore full service. yiddish phone service on friedennew york observerny nov 16 2006today the yiddish news service kol mevaser is worried that eliot spitzer is close to selecting the citys health commi...
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emmitt smith wins dancingawith the stars.a somewhere dustin diamondsaopening a giant bottle of champagne.a nicole richie......
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suozzi to replace hevesi now that would be a move that would impress me. i really liked tom suozzi and supported him in the primary. as i was making my rounds through my email alerts i saw this statement posted at the politicker in the comment section. i heard spitzer wants suozzi to replace hevesi and that it would annoy cuomo.......
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blogsareabuzzover the fact that spitzer who unendorsed hevesi preelection day says he will not undermine patakis removal plans for alan hevesi in a press conference the two of them held today. he may as implied by his tone continue such plans if they are not finished by december 31. lets hope that spitzer holds to his word that eeverything changes on day one including the comptroller.......
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fairly or unfairly even before the fact state gop chairman steve minarik has been singled out for a lot of criticism over the state republican parties failures. the new york post says unfairly its patakis fault.the political blog at one new york city paper posed this question among others to their readers on mondayhow long does it take republicans to get out the knives for state chairman stephen m...
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i just couldnt help but laugh at this post from the politicker summarizing recent political appearances with a sentence structure that turned out a plethora of silly misplaced modifiers.nassau comptroller howard weitzman releases a report showing that nassau residents are being shortchanged on their star rebate checks at his office in mineola.ouch his own office is shortchanging nassau residents ...
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