Rudy Giuliani, the big scoop went, had decided to challenge Kirsten Gillibrand for her U.S. Senate seat next year and would announce his candidacy "in the next 48 hours." 120 hours later (and counting), the world is still waiting to hear from Rudy. And as the minutes, hours and... READ MORE»
Pollster Doug Schoen, who crunched numbers for President Clinton and Mayor Bloomberg, and made a prodigious study of the independent movement, thinks Lou Dobbs, who dubbed himself... READ MORE»
Rudy Giuliani, the big scoop went, had decided to challenge Kirsten Gillibrand for her U.S. Senate seat next year and would announce his candidacy "in the next 48 hours." 120 hours later (and counting), the world is still waiting to hear from Rudy. And as the minutes, hours and days pass, the scoop is feeling more and more like a red... READ MORE»
Westchester Republican Liz Feld is mulling a run against Kirsten Gillibrand. David Paterson proposed a new plan with less-drastic... READ MORE»
Ken Rudin's list of 2013 Democratic mayoral candidates: Bill Thompson, John Liu, Bill de Blasio, Scott Stringer, Anthony Weiner. Gary Ackerman was at the State Dinner last night. Liz Feld may run for Senate, says Sal... READ MORE»
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ALBANY—David Paterson to Brooklyn, Take Two. The governor will appear at a "community conversation" in the borough of Vito Lopez, not exactly a Paterson supporter, on December 1 at the First A.M.E. Zion Church on MacDonough Street. The forum is organized by Assemblywoman Annette Robinson, Representative Ed Towns, State Senator Velmanette Montgomery and City Councilman Al... READ MORE»
ALBANY—Preston Felton, the acting director of the State Police during the Troopergate affair, has settled with the Commission on Public Integrity. Felton admitted he violated the Public Officers law but will pay no fine because the commission does not have the power to levy one. Barry Ginsberg, the executive director of the commission said that Felton "received the same treatment as his boss and his boss's boss," William Howard and Rich... READ MORE»
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At an appearance this morning with Senator Gillibrand, a onetime critic, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy of Long Island, said she'd work to help get the senator elected in next year's election. She cited the freshman senator's support for new gun control restrictions that the pair will introduce next week in Congress. But afterward, McCarthy told reporters she "believes in the primary system" and will only help Gillibrand in the general... READ MORE»
ALBANY—It appears there's some compromise in David Paterson's deficit reduction... READ MORE»
ALBANY—David Paterson has succeeded in uniting the State Senate. "As I said, Leader Sampson and I have been working very well together, we will continue to do that," Republican Senate Leader Dean Skelos said in a joint scrum with Democratic Senate Leader John Sampson on the chamber floor. "We just need the governor to stop thinking poll-wise, and realize that our minds are there to get something done--he should be in the same... READ MORE»
ALBANY—The first reactions to David Paterson's "executive option proposal" are mostly not positive. "What's next, martial law?" Assemblyman Rory Lancman, a Queens Democrat, ... READ MORE»
New York Times reporter Fernanda Santos is transferring from the City Hall beat. Santos, who covered upstate New York before coming to Room 9, will be transferring to the paper's Queens beat. (Yes, they have one!). "I'm a street reporter at heart, so this is a beat that suits me better," she said in an... READ MORE»
ALBANY—The first reactions to David Paterson's "executive option proposal" are mostly not positive. "What's next, martial law?" Assemblyman Rory Lancman, a Queens Democrat,... READ MORE»
ALBANY—Dean Skelos, the Senate Republican leader, just suggested that David Paterson doesn't really want to act on something that would plug the state's budget deficit. "We need the governor to stop the hysterics, to stop looking at his poll numbers," Skelos told Fred Dicker on WGDJ. "I think, quite frankly, he hopes that Moody's downgrades us. He's hoping we don't get an... READ MORE»
ALBANY—David Paterson today sent the legislature two bills to consider: his $3 billion plan to bridge the deficit, as unveiled in October and an "executive option proposal" that seems like a fiscal version of the Gulf of Tonkin... READ MORE»
Negotiations have once again failed to produce an agreement on deficit reduction. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is thinking about cutting a deal with David Paterson on the budget... READ MORE»
"He wouldn't share a stage with fellow Democrat Bill Thompson, but President Obama invited Thompson's campaign rival, Mayor Bloomberg, to attend a White House state dinner tonight." WaPo's Ken Adelman: "relationships are heightened and debts are deepened by State Dinner... READ MORE»
ALBANY—Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver refused to rule out a two-way agreement with David Paterson to act on the state's budget... READ MORE»
November 23, 2009
The puzzling thing about politicians of either party who claim to be “centrist” or “moderate” is how much they sometimes sound like right-wing Republicans. Distinguishing among these different species... READ MORE »
November 25, 2009
Rudy Giuliani, the big scoop went, had decided to challenge Kirsten Gillibrand for her U.S. Senate seat next year and would announce his candidacy "in the next 48 hours."... READ MORE »
November 25, 2009
Pollster Doug Schoen, who crunched numbers for President Clinton and Mayor Bloomberg, and made a prodigious study of the independent movement, thinks Lou Dobbs, who dubbed himself "Mr. Independent"... READ MORE »
November 25, 2009
Westchester Republican Liz Feld is mulling a run against Kirsten Gillibrand. David Paterson proposed a new plan with less-drastic cuts. "Cut this deficit with me or I will do... READ MORE »
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