NY-23: The time for money has passed.
Now what they need are bodies. Doug Hoffman’s calling for help… so if you have a day or two to spare, get thee hence to NY-23. UPDATE: See also Hot Air.
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Breaking: WFP/ACORN Takes The Fifth On Corruption Suit.
[FURTHER UPDATE] Welcome, AoSHQ readers. Note the petition below. [UPDATE]: Thanks to Randy Mastro and our own Francis Cianfrocca – who will have a lot more to say about these races – here’s the petition cataloging said skulduggery; and you will not find it dull reading. (If you’re having trouble reading it, try here.) It’s not that our opponents are geniuses at skulduggery. It’s that | Read More »
How Not To Do It: the infamous Dede Scozzafava photo op.
So, just how bad was this photo op that Dede Scozzafava had to try to push back on Doug Hoffman? This bad. From our super-secret hidden peanut gallery (names left in because they said to): streiff: I was an evaluator on a live fire exercise back in 84 when a herd of free range cattle moped into the impact area and about 200 troops decided | Read More »
NY-23 Hoffman/Scozzafava: What Jim said.
This got triggered by the refutation of Dede Scozzafava’s allegation that John McCormack – John McCormack – screamed questions at her, I think. Jim Geraghty’s had enough, and so have I. The time has come for the RNC and NRCC to ask for their money back. This goes well beyond any reasonable difference on policy. There’s room in the party for pro-choice Republicans and pro-gay | Read More »
Democratic election fraud in Troy, NY: a follow-up.
(Via Atlas Shrugs) For the next time somebody tells you that Democrat/ACORN/WFP election registration fraud does not equal election fraud, feel free to point this story coming from Troy, New York, where the one led seamlessly to the other. Feel free to also point out that it doesn’t take all that much to flip some races: Thirty-eight forged or fraudulent ballots have been thrown out | Read More »
Charlie Rangel gets a primary challenger in NY-15.
I understand why Glenn Reynolds is suspicious, but I think this primary challenge of Charlie Rangel by former campaign director Vincent Morgan is legitimate. To begin with, the possibility was first reported about a month and a half ago, and that article notes an important detail about NY-15: Someday, whether it be 2010 or 2012 or 3012, Charlie Rangel will not be the congressman from | Read More »
Actually, Patrick Gaspard IS affiliated with ACORN.
Matthew Vadum had precisely the same reaction that I did when I read the Ben Smith Politico article that published ACORN founder Wade Rathke’s denial that White House Director Political Director Patrick Gaspard was affiliated with his group: Umm. No. It’s not Ben’s fault – this is all deliberately designed to be confusing – but there are a clear set of links. It goes like | Read More »
Siena poll (NY-SEN): Giuliani beats Gillibrand by 8 points.
(Via RCP) I’m still trying to reconcile a 46/38 result among registered voters (which represents a flip since January 2009) with Siena’s statement that half of NY voters can want Giuliani to run for neither Governor nor Senator, unless a large proportion of those voters don’t want him to run because he could actually win. Absent a look at the actual questions, I’m not sure | Read More »
Rejoice, oh state Democrats: the White House will be interfering in your races.
With all of the delicacy, charm and raw political skill that they showed in trying to get Gov. David Paterson of NY to quit. White House Is Taking a More Aggressive Role in State Races WASHINGTON — The White House’s intervention in the race for New York governor is the latest evidence of how President Obama and his top advisers are taking an increasingly direct | Read More »
White House targeting… Gov. Paterson (D, NY).
They apparently started by making a quiet request that he drop out, and I’m going to guess that Paterson told them ‘no.’ So they leaked the news. To repeat: so they leaked the news. ALBANY – In a stunning request, the Obama administration has made it clear to poll-challenged Gov. Paterson that the White House would prefer he not seek election to a full four-year | Read More »
Spitzer considering Senate run? …No, really?
(Via Hot Air) Did you miss Eliot Spitzer? He misses you. Admittedly, that might be only because he’s possibly aiming at Senator Gillibrand: Disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been privately talking with friends about a possible comeback, and is considering a run for statewide office next year, several sources told The Post. Less than 18 months after he left Albany in a prostitution scandal, | Read More »
POTUS’s pushback/non-pushback on Paterson racism smear.
I mean, I wouldn’t want to get referenced during the casual race-baiting of the Governor of New York either, but it happened. Heck, it happened to me, too – at least, in the sense that I’m one of the amorphous mass of people being accused 0f racism because we think that David Paterson is an incompetent dunderhead*. Unlike the President, however, I don’t have aides | Read More »
Did Tim Bishop (D, NY-01) REALLY skip out on the SEIU ‘reform rally?’ [UPDATED]
[UPDATE]: Congressman Bishop’s office informed me that while he had been invited to speak at Thursday’s rally, he did not accept the invitation, and thus was not scheduled to attend. When I mentioned that a few days ago, I assumed that last night’s out-of-district’s ‘rally’ would be just the usual staged event designed to make the Congressman look… well, less bad. Only there’s now a | Read More »
Rep. Bishop, Boswell having health care meetings allllll the way over *there*.
Tim Bishop (D, NY-01) is having something called a “health care reform rally” on Thursday, at (of all things) SEIU’s Hicksville NY offices (1199 Duffy Ave, starts at 1 PM). This is otherwise known as “over twenty miles outside the borders of NY-01.” Bishop is of course one of the first Democrats holding down a Red district (NY-01 is a R+0) to discover that his | Read More »
New York Senate Drama! Showdown! Conflict! Pay Raises!
And here I thought that opportunities to report on the NY Senate’s shenanigans had passed, once Espada flip-flopped back to being a Democrat. I was wrong: Elite get fat pay hikes amid Senate stalemate Democrats reward key staff with up to $32,000 while hitting GOP ALBANY — Eleven of the state Senate’s highest-paid staffers received raises of up to $32,000 when it appeared likely Democrats | Read More »
NY Senate Watch: Paterson (D) could end this, any time?
He arguably has the authority to do so. And knows it. Groups call on Paterson to appoint Lt. Governor Citizens Union, Common Cause and Assemb. Michael Gianaris (D- Astoria) urged Paterson to exercise the authority given him by Section 43 of the Public Officers Law. The provision reads in part, “if a vacancy shall occur, otherwise than by expiration of term, with no provision of | Read More »
Clearly, SecState Clinton is going to challenge Schumer in 2010.
It’ll clearly happen after a dramatic breaking with the administration this fall over foreign policy. Clearly. Bill Clinton to raise money for NY Dem challenger WASHINGTON – In a slap at President Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton will headline a fundraiser for a New York congresswoman challenging White House-backed Sen. Kristen Gillibrand in the state’s Democratic primary. Clinton has not endorsed in the race, | Read More »
“Don’t MAKE me turn this state legislature around.”
I have no particular love for NY Governor David Paterson, given that he had to start his tenure as Governor by mentioning the adultery that he had somehow forgotten to mention to the voters up to that point – but that being said, this was funny: Gov. David Paterson just put the kibosh on the Senate Democrats’ plans to leave the Capitol tonight, warning that | Read More »
Clearly, the NY Senate situation requires Thunderdome.
[UPDATE] AoSHQ thinks it’s a coup, and has its own suggestion for a resolution. Because either the NY Senate Democrats are trying something sneaky… Democrats in the Chamber! (But Still No Agreement) ALBANY—Most the Democrats in the State Senate have barricaded themselves in the chamber. [snip] The Democrats arrived around 12:30. It’s unclear what’s going on. All the doors are locked, and journalists as well | Read More »
Hiram ‘Slasher’ Monserrate to rejoin NY Dems.
So it seems, so it seems. One week after deciding to side with Senate Republicans, a key architect of the state Senate coup says he’s coming home. A source close to Senator Hiram Monserrate says he will stay with the democratic caucus. First off: feel free to take him back, Democrats. No. Really. You never really wanted him gone, anyway. Second: this makes the entire | Read More »
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