ALBANY—Some pre-same-sex marriage Senate tea leaves:
Christine Quinn, the openly gay speaker of the New York City Council, is here. I snapped this photo of her near the Senate chamber, where she told me "I'm up here hopeful there will be a vote on marriage equality and that it will move the issue forward." Read More
Assemblyman Adriano Espaillat is also calling for State Senator Hiram Monserrate to resign, but said it is a "point of weakness" that the Inquisition Panel formed last week to ponder charges against him contains no Latino members.
"Given what has happened, Senator Monserrate is no longer able to effectively serve his constituents, or the Read More
ALBANY--State Senator Jim Alesi spent $18,750 of his campaign fund toward the (entirely legal) purchase of a Cadillac, a review of campaign records shows. Alesi said he purchased the car--a 2009 DTS "basic Cadillac"--earlier this year and expensed about 35 percent of the total cost, which was "around $50,000." "I've always driven a Cadillac," Alesi, Read More
ALBANY--State Senator Jim Alesi spent $18,750 of his campaign fund toward the (entirely legal) purchase of a Cadillac, a review of campaign records shows.
Alesi said he purchased the car--a 2009 DTS "basic Cadillac"--earlier this year and expensed about 35 percent of the total cost, which was "around $50,000."
"I've always driven Read More
ALBANY—Vote counts, court orders and locked doors aside, demonstrators from Citizen Action made it even more difficult for a Republican-led coalition to consummate the coup it initiated Monday by trying to get into the State Senate chamber.
"It was an absolute crush of people," State Senator Jim Alesi told me by Read More
ALBANY—Now that Malcolm Smith has forging a united Democratic majority under his leadership, look for the party to redouble its efforts to recruit defectors from the Republican side.
State Senator Joe Robach - who used to be a Democrat - could be a target, as well as State Senator Jim Alesi, who was Read More
ALBANY—The rumor that State Senator Jim Alesi, who just won his seventh term, will desert the Republicans to join a new Democratic majority in the state senate remains a rumor.
But not one Alesi is eager to tamp down. Calls to his Rochester office Friday and this morning seeking a comment on the rumor Read More
