The New York Observer » Jack Casey http://www.observer.com Just another WordPress site Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:39:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ‘Draft Rudy’ Movement Comes Upstate ALBANY—Rudy Giuliani met quietly with a group of upstate Republican county chairmen last week while in town for a motivational speaking rally at the Times Union Center arena.

The get together was organized by Craig Eaton, the Brooklyn Republican chairman, who drove up to Albany with Bronx G.O.P. chair Jay Savino.

The meeting was Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/4723/draft-rudy-movement-comes-upstate Progress! Two Sides in the Senate Chamber, Under Duress ALBANY—

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]]> http://www.observer.com/4282/progress-two-sides-senate-chamber-talks-might-resume What Happens If the Only Ones Who Can Save the Senate Are the Senators? ALBANY—Here's the problem. Any workable resolution to the leadership fight in the State Senate—one that isn't immediately challenged in court by one side or the other, or both—will have to be brought about by the senators. And the senators, it should be said, don't look capable of much at all.

"Ultimately it has to Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/4276/what-happens-save-senate-senators Judge Issues Order for All 62 Senators to Enter Chamber at Once ALBANY—Judge Joseph Teresi has heeded David Paterson's call and issued an order for all 62 members of the State Senate to convene at 10 a.m. Tuesday. The ruling will be appealed, likely preventing the order from being effective in the morning.

"The intention, as I find it to be in the New York Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/4275/judge-issues-order-all-62-senators-enter-chamber-same-time Sides Agree to Produce Records, Keep Talking Out of Court ALBANY—We'll have to wait until Monday, or even longer. Judge Thomas McNamara sent the dueling parties in State Senate leadership struggle back to the negotiating table—a move that has become something of a trademark for him. By my count, this is the sixth time legal action related to the case has been adjourned. After a closed, Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/politics/sides-agree-produce-records-keep-talking-out-court Sides Agree to Produce Records, Keep Talking Out of Court ALBANY—We'll have to wait until Monday, or even longer.

Judge Thomas McNamara sent the dueling parties in State Senate leadership struggle back to the negotiating table—a move that has become something of a trademark for him.

By my count, this is the sixth time legal action related to the case has been adjourned. Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/4242/sides-agree-produce-records-keep-talking-out-court Judge Reponds to Senate Republican Motion: ‘You Need to Resolve This’ ALBANY—Judge Thomas McNamara is back, and he still doesn't want to get involved in the State Senate leadership struggle.

After hearing an argument from Republican attorney Jack Casey, who filed a motion on behalf of State Senators George Winner and John Flanagan, McNamara declined to sign a temporary restraining order against Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/4206/judge-republican-motion-resolve-this Judge Reponds to Senate Republican Motion: ‘You Need to Resolve This’ ALBANY—Judge Thomas McNamara is back, and he still doesn't want to get involved in the State Senate leadership struggle. After hearing an argument from Republican attorney Jack Casey, who filed a motion on behalf of State Senators George Winner and John Flanagan, McNamara declined to sign a temporary restraining order against Angelo Aponte, the Democrat-designated Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/politics/judge-reponds-senate-republican-motion-you-need-resolve After the Coup, an Anti-Coup Clause ALBANY—Blair Horner, the longtime good-government advocate just stopped me in the halls to share this tidbit about the rules just enacted by the Republican "coalition" government. "They require 48-hours notice on any resolution," he said, smiling. "So their own coup wouldn't be possible under the new rules."

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/politics/after-coup-anti-coup-clause After the Coup, an Anti-Coup Clause ALBANY—Blair Horner, the longtime good-government advocate just stopped me in the halls to share this tidbit about the rules just enacted by the Republican "coalition" government.

"They require 48-hours notice on any resolution," he said, smiling. "So their own coup wouldn't be possible under the new rules."

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