The latest ad from the business-funded Committee to Save NY, features Cuomo ally, Carl McCall, who has already appeared in a radio ad for the cause.
Substantively, the ad is pushes back against groups urging for higher taxes, in order to fund programs that are facing major funding reductions under Cuomo's proposal.
Politically, McCall's latest Read More
Well, that pledge to avoid throwing mud didn't last long.
After Andrew Cuomo vowed not conduct a campaign in the gutter, and Carl Paladino said he would focus on the economy, not on personal attacks, the two are back to sparring with one another this afternoon, this time over the issue of Carl McCall, Read More
ALBANY—Percy Sutton's funeral, or State of the State?
That is the question, which officials have answered with either their presence or absence at the Capitol today--David Paterson, who will give the speech, is managing to do both by miracle of a State Police helicopter.
Michael Bloomberg is not here, but I ran into Kevin Read More
David Paterson, God bless him, remains publicly adamant that he will seek a full term in 2010.
There’s every reason to believe he means it, too. And yet it is still almost certain that, come September ’10, Mr. Paterson’s name will be nowhere near a New York Democratic primary ballot.
In the minutes before a rare public appearance on June 18, Andrew Cuomo actually hid.
Rather than mingle with hospital employees and patients in an elevator bank at St. Vincent’s Hospital, where he was scheduled to announce the successful completion of an investigation into the health insurance industry, or to make his way to the Read More
ALBANY—David Paterson—affable colleague, funny orator, passive and heretofore ineffective governor—is trying to show that he can be a fighter, after all.
In recent days, as polls continue to show him getting destroyed in a hypothetical primary next year against Andrew Cuomo, he has attemped to warn off would-be challengers from his base in Read More
As he walked out of a St. Patrick’s Day breakfast at St. Bart’s church on 51st Street on March 17, Mr. Paterson told The Observer, “Somebody once Read More
Democratic State Senator Ruben Diaz, Sr.--who is running for re-election on both the Republican ticket and the Democratic one--wants to clear the air about a few things.He called to say that his August 13 fund-raiser features Democratic State Senate Leader Malcolm Smith and conference co-chair Jeff Klein, but they are not behind Read More
"I just got off the phone with David," said McCall, "and he is also in a Read More
Last month, Carrion rolled out two others: former state comptroller Carl McCall and business executive Leo Hindrey Jr.
Locking up the support of two former comptrollers Read More
The co-chairs for Adolfo Carrion’s comptroller campaign will be former state comptroller H. Carl McCall and business executive Leo Hindrey Jr. of InterMedia Partners, the campaign announced this morning.
Hindrey, the former C.E.O. of the YES Network (which broadcasts Yankees games) also helped raise money for another Bronx politician seeking citywide office: Fernando Ferrer, who Read More
Congressman Charlie Rangel says that he encouraged Barack Obama to run and thinks he “can become a hero in the black community.” Former New York State Comptroller Carl McCall says that he would “discount” recent suggestions that Mr. Obama could ever be considered “disconnected from the black community,” and warned that “it would be a Read More
8:30 a.m. The board of directors for the city's Economic Development Corp will meet at 110 William Street. 8:30 a.m. Al D'Amato and Carl McCall discuss city and state government at Baruch College. 11 a.m. Sirius Satellite Radio announces they're launching a station dedicated to Frank Sinatra. Noon. Assembly Democrats convene for a meeting in Read More
Question: How seriously should we be taking Hillary Clinton's apparent lead over Barack Obama among African American voters? Certainly, the Clinton name is worth an awful lot among black voters, and Hillary has already moved to lock down some of the most influential members of the African-American political establishment. But at first glance, Read More
Alan Hevesi's campaign is going on the offense, sort of. They released statements from current city comptroller, Bill Thompson -- who seems to have been the chief object of speculation about who might replace Hevesi -- and former state comptroller, Carl McCall saying that they intended to vote for him against Christopher Callaghan. But as Read More
