capitaltonight.com | February 29, 2012 Senate Republicans just released a report detailing their budget spending showing that they have trimmed their expenditures by more than $11 million in the past year, and by nearly $8 million in the past six months. The release is part of a biannual report that provides line-by-line account of spending. [...]
Archive: February, 2012
We’ve seen that the fast-fading hopes of Senate Democrats to retake the Legislature’s Upper House has led a number of their high-paid political consultants to head for the lifeboats. Now, realization of their bleak chances has some of their own members eyeing the exits. At least eight Democrat senators—maybe more—are looking to abandon [...]
On time budgets that cut spending, reduce taxes and end gimmicks. A focus on creating jobs and getting our economy moving again—and away from petty, partisan squabbles that once earned New York’s Legislature the title of the nation’s “most dysfunctional.” A common sense approach that’s showing New Yorkers that state government CAN work—with [...]
theNotebook – Chris Bragg | February 13, 2012 A source notes that tucked deep into an obscure campaign finance report for Senate Minority Leader John Sampson is a $5,000 expense for a top white shoe law firm, which is representing Sampson in the ongoing Aqueduct Entertainment Group probe. The Manhattan law firm Thompson, Wigdor & [...]
capitaltonight.com | 02-13-2012 The Senate Republican Campaign Committee is pointing to last month’s New York Observer piece as evidence that Democrats are disorganized heading into the pivotal 2012 election season. The SRCC points out that “three top Democrat campaign consultants” criticized the conference in the Observer story, though only two are quoted by name. In [...]
It’s a good sign that you’re about to be sunk when the officers start jumping ship. Just ask Francesco Schettino, the chicken-hearted captain of that inverted Italian cruise ship. Closer to home, ask the architects of the NY Senate Democrats’ brief reign of power. Already abandoned by four of their more moderate members, [...]
While Washington has been mired in gridlock, New York State has been creating jobs with the help of the new Senate Republican Conference. According to a recent report from the Comptroller, New York has regained more than half of the private sector jobs lost in the recent recession. We are outpacing the national [...]
ALBANY — The state Senate voted Tuesday to dramatically expand New York’s DNA database, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo called on the Assembly to quickly do the same. The bill would bolster the databank to require anyone convicted of any felony or a non-traffic misdemeanor to submit a DNA sample for the state’s records. As it [...]
ALBANY — Expanding the state’s DNA database cleared the state Senate on Tuesday but it may be impeded by a dispute about whether the change will do enough to help the wrongfully convicted. Law enforcement groups as well as legislators from both parties agree with Gov. Andrew Cuomo‘s proposal to take DNA samples from people convicted [...]
For years the operating assumption in Albany political circles on both sides of the aisle was that eventually, one day, Democrats would take control of the State Senate, thus completing the extermination of the Republican Party in New York State. The logic of this argument was simple: A Republican had not been elected statewide since [...]
Meet Lew Fidler of Brooklyn, whose 10 years on the City Council have apparently entitled him to, well, a grand sense of entitlement. As The Post’s Rich Calder reported last week, Fidler’s been caught for the second time in as many years making personal use of official-business-only parking spots on the Borough Hall public plaza. [...]