Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy wasted little time in locking in four of the five companies he promised would bring the state more jobs under his so-called “First Five” plan, an initiative launched this year with the intention of luring new companies to the Constitution State with incentives.
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Queens home sales dropped 27.2 percent from the fourth quarter of 2006 to the fourth quarter of 2007, according to a new report from brokerage Prudential Douglas Elliman and research firm Radar Logic. Sales also dropped from the third quarter 28 percent, suggesting that the largely suburban borough is mimicing much of the nation rather Read More
Governor Eliot Spitzer has a secret plan to shrink Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver into obscurity. It starts with a Democratic takeover of the State Senate. The first step, according to a senior official in the Spitzer administration, will be an attempt to compel vulnerable Republican Senators to defect to the Democratic minority by threatening them Read More
A Democratic source in Nassau just told me that the local Democrats have settled on North Hempstead Town Clerk Michelle Schimel to replace Tom DiNapoli in the Assembly. -- Azi Paybarah
"Of course they sided with him," said Adler, Read More
The bloodletting has begun in the wake of the Maureen O'Connell loss in Nassau's special election earlier this week. The defeat was a result, according to the New York Log Cabin Republicans, of the Conservative Party's "agenda of division and hate." In a letter to Conservative Party state chair Michael Long, David Verchere of Read More
Here are a couple of visible reminders (from this morning) of the upcoming special election for the Yvette Clarke council seat. While this race has gotten relatively little attention -- compared with, say, the $5 million special Senate election in Nassau this week -- it has, at least, prompted a number of influential figures within Read More
Joe Bruno's upbeat message this morning after losing a seat in Nassau: "We still have the Majority in the Senate and our conference will go forward, strong, united and committed to ensuring accountability, providing checks and balances and delivering results for our constituents." His full statement is after the jump. -- Azi Paybarah STATEMENT BY Read More
I caught up with Republican state Senator Frank Padavan on his way into session in the capitol just a moment ago and asked him about what the Senate Republicans will do now after losing the seat in Nassau. "We continue to do what we think is right for the electorate," he said. When I Read More
Despite all the finger-pointing and charges of voter suppression, there were no complaints made about yesterday's special election in Nassau to the US Attorney's Office in the Eastern District, a spokesman at the office told me via email late yesterday. There was plenty of last minute legal maneuvering on the local level, Read More
A Democratic source called with some early numbers in the Nassau race: 52 percent for Democrat Craig Johnson and 48 percent for Republican Maureen O'Connell, with about 30 percent of the precincts reporting in [numbers updated]. This source also said that the districts which were expected to go heavily for the Republicans haven't reported in Read More
Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton are campaigning into Nassau's 7th Senate district today, highlighting the importance of the race. There's been talk that if Republicans lose this seat, other GOP state Senators may abandon ship, putting every statewide elected office and both houses of the state legislature into Democratic hands. (Can anyone say Read More
Hillary Clinton's first major fund-raiser in New York is this week. A comptroller vote is near with Tom DiNapoli as the front-runner, reports Fred Dicker. Candidates in Nassau's special election are slugging it out. Jonathan Hicks looks at ethnic politics in Brooklyn's special election. Eliot Spitzer is looking to close some Read More
Here are two fliers from 1199 SEIU and CSEA on behalf of Republican Maureen O'Connell. The full pieces are here and here. The fliers, which will be hitting mailboxes in Nassau shortly (if not already), tie O'Connell to health care issues in a way that's hard to argue with. (What's the argument against Read More
Here's a robo call that was made and sponsored by 1199 SEIU and CSEA on behalf of Republican state senate candidate Maureen O'Connell in Nassau [updated]. The caller identifies herself as "Mary Duffy," a nurse and mother of four in Mineola. It's a short, pragmatic delivery whose message can be distilled as follows: Read More
