Scott Murphy still supports economic stimuli. Republicans are still attacking him for it.
Murphy voted last night to spend $150 billion in, as Murphy said in a release, "immediate investments to improve our crumbling infrastructure and create good-paying jobs right here at home."
Democrats call the bill the Jobs for Main Street Act; as Read More
ALBANY—"I liken it to Nancy Pelosi," Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, the last Republican to lose a Congressional election in New York, told me Oct. 22 when I asked if there was any chance his party would abandon his colleague Dede Scozzafava's sputtering--and now defunct--Congressional bid. "She's got 25 blue dog, conservative Democrats. She doesn't Read More
ALBANY—"I liken it to Nancy Pelosi," Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, the last Republican to lose a Congressional election in New York, told me Oct. 22 when I asked if there was any chance his party would abandon his colleague Dede Scozzafava's sputtering--and now defunct--Congressional bid. "She's got 25 blue dog, conservative Democrats. She doesn't say, 'Well, Read More
ALBANY—A new poll shows support for Republican Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava dropping 6 points in her race to replace John McHugh in Congress, putting her behind Bill Owens, the Democratic Party's nominee, 33-29.
Scozzafava's fall coincides with the rise of Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party's nominee, who is now at 23 percent, Read More
ALBANY—The National Republican Campaign Committee is continuing its negative blitz against Bill Owens, the Democratic Party's candidate to replace John McHugh in Congress.
The NRCC put together this Web ad, set to sounds of a classical violin, which blasts Owens for not yet filing a personal financial disclosure form. It includes footage Read More
ALBANY—A Republican operative called to point out that Bill Owens, the Democratic Party's designee to replace John McHugh in Congress, was involved in a company accused of short-changing shareholders in a stock offering and failing to pay some taxes.
Owens still serves served (and has since the early 1990s) as a director of Read More
ALBANY—Wednesday night it was left-leaning demonstrators pushing him on health care. Today, Representative Scott Murphy is in the cross hairs of the National Republican Congressional Committee over the proposed health care restructuring.
The NRCC is sending robocalls to voters in the 20th district--where Murphy was elected this spring to succeed Kirsten Gillibrand--attacking Murphy's Read More
CLIFTON PARK—Republicans are greeting the selection of Bill Owens, the newly minted Democratic candidate to replace John McHugh in Congress, with mockery.
"All of a sudden we've got to go out and get a non-party person to run on the Democratic ticket? I guess the question is, are they running away from their president?" Read More
ALBANY—Representative Eric Massa has moved from the crosshairs of the Republicans into their ammo chamber.
The National Republican Congressional Committee is seizing on comments reported this morning by the Elmira Star-Gazette to attack all of the Democrats in the state's delegation considered marginal—Dan Maffei, Mike Arcuri, Tom Bishop, Mike McMahon and John Hall. Read More
ALBANY—The health care workers union SEIU 1199 spent over $500,000 to help Scott Murphy defeat Assemblyman Jim Tedisco in their race to replace Kirsten Gillibrand in Congress.
Federal campaign filings show the union invested more in independent expenditures than even the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee toward Murphy's victory, between their political action and Read More
ALBANY—The health care workers union SEIU 1199 spent over $500,000 to help Scott Murphy defeat Assemblyman Jim Tedisco in their race to replace Kirsten Gillibrand in Congress. Federal campaign filings show the union invested more in independent expenditures than even the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee toward Murphy's victory, between their political action and political education Read More
ALBANY—They're still coming in, but Republicans say they have reason to be optimistic about absentee ballots in the 20th District congressional race. "The Republicans I talked with last night felt very confident about the composition of those absentee ballots," said Robert Turner, a political science professor at Skidmore College. "Most are from Saratoga, where Tedisco Read More
ALBANY—They're still coming in, but Republicans say they have reason to be optimistic about absentee ballots in the 20th District congressional race.
"The Republicans I talked with last night felt very confident about the composition of those absentee ballots," said Robert Turner, a political science professor at Skidmore College. "Most are from Saratoga, where Read More
ALBANY—Scott Murphy is a rich carpetbagger, out-of-touch with the needs of the average voters in the 20th Congressional District he hopes to represent because he actually grew up in Missouri. He hasn't even voted in recent elections. He was a lobbyist, for Pete's sake, taking his clients to the Cotton Bowl and lavishing Read More
