If the state Democratic Party has a preference between its potential Republican rivals in the governor's race, they don't seem to be showing it. The committee's first television ad tries to get a jump on framing each of their possible opponents as tied to special... MORE»
As promised, Bill Samuels' New Roosevelt Initiative has opened a field office in the Bronx, as a base for its fight against Pedro Espada Jr. NRI also announced the hiring of Yorman Nunez, a political organizer who had previously managed the campaign of Desiree Pilgrim-Hunter. Pilgrim-Hunter dropped a primary challenge to Espada last month--at the urging of Samuels and others--and the anti-Espada crowd has since rallied around Gustavo Rivera, a former aide to Senator Kirsten... MORE»
Ken Mehlman, who ran George W. Bush's 2004 presidential campaign, has admitted that he is gay.... MORE»
State Senator Eric Schneiderman was back on the steps of City Hall this afternoon, flanked by a handful of black elected officials, to accept the personal endorsement of the Reverend Al... MORE»
On Thursday, the board of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is expected to approve a new deal with developer Larry Silverstein to redevelop the World Trade Center. The new package, tentatively agreed to in March, was long fought--for a while last year, such an accord seemed hard to... MORE»
The full City Council has approved a 1,200-foot office tower planned by Vornado Realty Trust to rise atop the Hotel Pennsylvania, two blocks from the Empire State Building. The vote came this afternoon, less than two weeks after Empire State Building owner Anthony Malkin launched a public push to block the skyscraper, warning it would detract from his tower's iconic place amongst the... MORE»
Rick Lazio rolled out a new ad this morning, attacking Andrew Cuomo as the personification of Albany, in an attempt to broaden his focus from what has been a mosque-centric campaign over the past few weeks. (Drawing rebukes from the Times and the Post, among... MORE»
Looks like the final deal with Larry Silverstein to redevelop the World Trade Center may not have been so hard to put together after all. Following a rocky initial reception from some Port Authority commissioners, the bi-state agency's board is now scheduled to meet tomorrow, with the expectation that it will approve the Silverstein deal, according to multiple people informed of the... MORE»
Last night Rick Lazio stopped by Hardball, where he either got into a standard shouting match with Chris Matthews or was eviscerated, depending on who you read. Matthews started by playing Lazio's ground zero-heavy ad, prompting Lazio to swallow hard when the camera returned to him. "In my mind some of the points made in this commercial are very valid points," he... MORE»
Despite the kaleidoscopic proliferation of political media over the past decade, most of what Americans hear and read about the workings of our democracy can be politely termed superficial. Only very rarely does journalism fully penetrate the glittering illusions created by partisans on every side to reveal the grittier realities. When a reporter does blast through the usual scrim of deception, that is worth noting—as in the case of Jane Mayer's investigation in the current issue of The New Yorker of the Koch family and its malign... MORE»
Back in March, after more than a year of stalemate, fighting and negotiating, a deal was struck between the Bloomberg administration, the Paterson administration, the Port Authority and developer Larry Silverstein on a path forward for two office towers on the World Trade Center... MORE»
State Senator Eric Schneiderman praised his possible Republican rival, Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan, this afternoon for his stance on the mosque... MORE»
After a week's worth of goading and dodging, it turns out Rick Lazio and Carl Paladino will attend a candidates' forum and a debate on the evening of August 30. They'll just be 250 miles apart. Paladino has been taunting Lazio to attend a debate hosted by YNN in Syracuse, even threatening to bring his chicken man to stand in if Lazio doesn't show. Lazio had said it was up to his campaign staff. Now, it looks like it will just be Paladino and the... MORE»
State Senator Eric Schneiderman is officially on the air. Not with the ad he unveiled last week--in which he keeps getting interrupted by supporters on the street--but with a more standard spot the campaign released this... MORE»
Sean Coffey sent out an email to supporters late last night, with a new TV ad he's rolling out today. The ad plays up Coffey's outsider status, which has been a recurring theme of his campaign so far. Without the institutional support of some of his rivals, Coffey is counting on ads like this--funded mostly from the money he's personally poured into the campaign--to help close the gap. He joins Kathleen Rice as the only two candidates up on the air so far, though Eric Schneiderman has an ad that's waiting in the wings (on the... MORE»
