ALBANY—He ran for Congress as an outsider, the non-politician who was fed up with the course of government. It shouldn't be too surprising that he's never been to the State Capitol.
I found Doug Hoffman gawking at the chamber's ornate ceiling, indulging what he monotonically insisted is a deep passion for architecture, chatting Read More
ALBANY—What role did Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava's strong support of same-sex marriage play in the collapse of her Congressional bid?
"It was pretty significant," said Jason McGuire, who lobbies against same-sex marriage in New York (and has been on the payroll of Doug Hoffman for several weeks). He noted that conservative groups--including the National Read More
ALBANY—September has come and gone, and the State Senate still has not acted on same-sex marriage legislation. Advocates of the bill do not want to let October pass.
"The Senate needs to come back and debate this bill and have an up-and-down vote on this bill in October," Alan Van Capelle, executive director of Read More
ALBANY—It's official: the State Assembly will take up a bill on Tuesday that would legalize same-sex marriage, a spokesman confirmed. When asked earlier today, Speaker Sheldon Silver said that the bill would have the votes to pass in his chamber. No one doubts this, in part because an almost identical bill passed the Assembly in Read More
ALBANY—It's official: the State Assembly will take up a bill on Tuesday that would legalize same-sex marriage, a spokesman confirmed.
When asked earlier today, Speaker Sheldon Silver said that the bill would have the votes to pass in his chamber. No one doubts this, in part because an almost identical bill passed the Assembly Read More
ALBANY—It looks like David Paterson is determined to put same-sex marriage to a vote in the Senate, even if it means failure, because it will force lawmakers to go on the record. (This is not the tradition in Albany.)
The thing is, the failure of the legislation, if it comes to it, is Read More
ALBANY—It looks like David Paterson is determined to put same-sex marriage to a vote in the Senate, even if it means failure, because it will force lawmakers to go on the record. (This is not the tradition in Albany.) The thing is, the failure of the legislation, if it comes to it, is pretty much Read More
