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 [...]
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. [...]
A church coalition protesting the arrest of a top aide to state Sen. Shirley Huntley and three other individuals for allegedly misusing taxpayer money has itself received taxpayer money from Huntley. Since 2007, the Clergy United for Community Empowerment – formerly known as the Southeast Queens Clergy for Community Empowerment – has received $70,000 in [...]
A Brooklyn politician campaigning to replace admitted crook Carl Kruger in the state Senate is once again using part of a public plaza outside Brooklyn Borough Hall as his private parking space. Councilman Lew Fidler (D-Brooklyn) — the frontrunner to fill the disgraced Kruger’s Senate seat in a special election March 20 – is up [...]
Campaign posters for Republican underdog David Storobin’s State Senate campaign have popped up all over the neighborhood in the past week. We spotted this one in the window at Coffee Spot Cafe (1617 Jerome Avenue), and we’ve also seen them in several businesses along Avenue U. The poster gives us a good idea where Storobin [...]
ALBANY — The campaign arm of state Senate Democrats is using office space in a building owned by the city’s powerful teachers union. Revelations of the cozy arrangement come as Gov. Cuomo and Mayor Bloomberg are warring with the union over implementing a rigorous teacher evaluation system. The United Federation of Teachers has provided the [...]
City Councilman Lew Fidler took a $1,000 donation from disgraced ex-state Sen. Carl Kruger in 2010, records show. Our Reuven Blau reports: Fidler accepted the “Friends of Carl” money to help fund his annual Democratic club dinner in May 2010 — a month before reports of Kruger’s criminal pay-to-play scheme surfaced. The popular Brooklyn councilman [...]
nydailynews.com | Jan. 16, 2012 $4.82 million versus the Democrats’ $200,000 Albany — The Republicans are winning the money war as the battle for control of the state Senate heats up, the Daily News has learned. The Senate Republican Campaign Committee will report Tuesday having a whopping $4.82 million cash on hand, GOP sources told [...]
Brooklyn Daily | January 16, 2012 Southern Brooklyn Republicans want voters who are angry with disgraced state Sen. Carl Kruger to start seeing red, and they say they have the candidate — and the cash — that will push the area further to the right. State Sen. Marty Golden says the special election for [...]
Posted by: Joseph Spector – Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 12, 2012 Republican Bob Cohen, who narrowly lost to Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer in 2010, said this morning that he plans to run again this year for the Westchester County seat in the wake of Oppenheimer’s announcement today that she will retire. “Our message resonated with [...]
polhud.com | Jan 12, 2012 State Senator Suzi Oppenheimer today announced that she will not seek re-election this November. The Senator made her decision upon recently learning that she will have to undergo major shoulder replacement surgery in 2012. Read more: http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2012/01/12/state-senator-oppenheimer-to-retire-after-28-years/