It's officially Senator Gillibrand's cause now, too.
At a Friday morning press conference that felt like a torch-passing, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney very publicly cheered the legislative efforts of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who announced that the Senate would be holding its first-ever hearing on the James Zadroga 9/11 Health Legislation bill at the end of the Read More
Bill Thompson is criticizing Michael Bloomberg's proposal to have drivers find and pay for parking spots using their cell phones.
"He's trying to recreate something he hasn't done in eight years," Thompson told reporters while campaigning in Sunnyside this morning.
Thompson said the mayor is presenting his plan as a way for motorists Read More
Obama asks Paterson to drop out of the 2010 race; Queens Democratic Rep. Gregory Meeks was the lucky middleman.
RNC Chairman Michael Steele thinks it's because Paterson is black.
27% of the statewide electorate don't really know what to say about Gillibrand.
Rochester was apathetic on Tuesday.
Bloomberg sent out some new mailers, which Read More
Given his previous support for Mayor Bloomberg, it was no surprise that Brooklyn Democratic County Leader Vito Lopez went out of his way to stress his close relationship with Bill Thompson when introducing him to a community meeting in Brooklyn last Thursday.
Less than two weeks from the Democratic primary, Thompson was Read More
In a speech today to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano outlined the department’s attempt to expand its security tactics to go along with President Obama’s broadened definition of terror threats. Stressing the need for a more “collective response,” Secretary Napolitano outlined a four-level approach Read More
He had been elected to the State Senate before most of his constituents were born, but on a campaign night on Staten Island several years ago, John J. Marchi was making the rounds dutifully at a local political function, taking nothing for granted even though he hadn't faced a serious challenge in a quarter-century.
An Read More
When President Barack Obama appears at the White House this morning to offer his new plan for the war in Afghanistan, he will be adding yet another element to an agenda that is already broad in its scale and grand in its ambition.
A big question mark, however, hangs over the issue of whether Read More
The New York Post: In a story that seems ripped from a Law & Order storyboard, the Post this morning tackles the incredibly sad story of the death of ABC News Radio's George Weber. Police say that 16-year-old John Katehis admits to stabbing the newsman in the course of a meeting at his house that Read More
Amid the tumult of several good elections for Democrats, including the 2006 tide that sank all Republican boats, three GOP members of Congress have held on to otherwise Democratic seats by narrow margins. This year, as a perfect storm looks set to sweep GOP incumbents from office coast to coast, the three survivors look likely Read More
If Democrats wind up with 59 U.S. Senate seats on Election Day, they can still reach the magic filibuster-proof number of 60 if the new President appoints Republican Olympia Snowe to his cabinet. The Governor of Maine, John Baldacci, would presumably appoint a fellow Democrat to serve until a November 2010 special election Read More
A senior Crowley aide said today that the congressman has informed Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee executive director Read More
More from Politicker.com editorial cartoonist Rob Tornoe:
Carl Cameron, the chief political correspondent for Fox News Channel, still hasn't seen Robert Greenwald's Fox News–bashing agit-documentary, Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism . But he said it didn't bother him that Fox News' credibility was being strafed by the left. "This is the silly season, where everything becomes relevant," he said. "I'm totally Read More
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