New York Republican State Committee Chairman Ed Cox certainly has high hopes, some coming from the most unlikely places.
Cox said he got encouraging news from RNC Chairman Michael Steele after the two appeared at an event last week for Charlie Rangel's challenger, Michael Faulkner.
"Steele told us that Mr Faulkner--according to his polls, the Republican National Read More
Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele campaigned in Harlem today for congressional candidate Michel Faulkner, stressing the image of the new Republican Party as the people's party.
"A lot of times we talk of our party in terms of the Grand Old Party," Steele said at the event. "And there's a lot that's grand, there's Read More
So, who's bringing the coolest celebs to this weekend's WHCD?
The Wall Street Journal's table sounds like a hoot, for example, with Securities and Exchange Commission chairwoman Mary Schapiro, RNC chairman Michael Steele et al. And look at Newsweek (Chevy Chase) and The New Yorker (Tracy Morgan, Judd Apatow).
But Politico's table might win for sheer variety: Mary Read More
For voters listening to the Republican leadership over the past year, the most startling surprise was the shift in their attitude toward Medicare. Where faithfulness to true conservatism was once measured by fierce hostility to the popular insurance program for the elderly, as articulated by Ronald Reagan at the birth of Medicare in 1965, today Read More
Michael Steele just delivered his speech at the NAACP centennial celebration in midtown. Steele, the chairman of the Republican National Committee who is Africn-American, joked “I’m here to protect the tax-exempt status of the NAACP.”
He later, jokingly, compared his rise in Republican circles to the work of the hundred-year-old civil rights organization.
“It took Read More
It's easy to brand Arlen Specter's decision to leave the Republican Party—a move directly precipitated by his realization that his career would end with next year's Pennsylvania Senate primary unless he left the G.O.P.—a nakedly unprincipled act of political survival.
And that's just what Specter's critics, on the right, on the left, and in the Read More
Standing in the produce section of a Harlem supermarket, the union’s president, Bruce Both, noted his union hadn’t endorsed Bloomberg in 2001 or in 2005, but that this year, the choice Read More
Here's video of RNC chair Michael Steele not throwing Michael Bloomberg a bone after an event they both attended in midtown.
Michael Steele, chairman of Republican National Committee, met with Michael Bloomberg at a private reception in midtown yesterday afternoon, then walked outside and told reporters he’s not getting involved in the mayor’s race.
“We don’t endorse at this level. We focus on what the leadership here in the state and county and local level, Read More
At a press conference this morning in Manhattan, Michael Bloomberg was asked how his event later today with Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele fits in with his “non-partisan” campaign message.
"What's it got to do with the campaign?" a reporter asked, according to the transcript.
“It's my obligation to talk to everyone,” Read More
SARATOGA SPRINGS—After eight weeks, millions of dollars and countless hours of lost sleep, Jim Tedisco could not, on election night, give a speech declaring victory in his Congressional bid. Instead, he did what he knows how to do: He vowed to fight on.
In his 30-year career in elected office, this is the Read More
The invite is going out to prospective attendees today. The host committee also includes, basically, every Republican group in New York, including some which are not too supportive of letting Read More
Michael Bloomberg’s campaign confirmed he’s scheduled to attend the major fund-raising dinner organized by the Manhattan Republican County Committee on April 2.
The group is set to cast a deciding vote on May 6 on whether to allow Bloomberg to run in the Republican primary this September.
Bloomberg’s April 2 appearance at the Read More
Republican National Chairman Michael Steele is coming to Manhattan on April 1 for an event that is slated to include a number of New York Republicans, and also Michael Bloomberg, according to two sources familiar with the event.
Bloomberg is currently courting local G.O.P. officials because he is hoping to be allowed to run in Read More
ALBANY--It's no longer a hypothetical question.
Assembly Minority Leader Jim Tedisco just came out against the stimulus package passed last month by Congress after having previously saying only that he supported a package with amendments. The question has been used by his Democratic opponent, Scott Murphy, in their race to succeed Kirsten Read More
