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Musical Chairs: 2010 Preseason
In politics, pretty much every open-seat race, primary challenge, and retirement has a sort of trickle-down effect – when someone moves up (or tries to), others see opportunities to move into vacancies created by those seeking higher office. You could liken it to a whole lot of people trying to climb the same ladder, or maybe a game of musical chairs (in some cases, full-contact musical chairs!). When you’re talking about Democratic politics in NY, where most seats are categorized as “safe”, “safer”, or “safest”…the pressure surrounding a seat opening up can get intense. As about eleventy million people consider running for Attorney General in 2010 – assuming, for the moment, that sitting AG Andrew Cuomo does run for governor … More >>
Tagged adriano espaillat, andrew cuomo, attorney general, elections, manhattan, mark levine, northern manhattan, ny senate, robert jackson, schneiderman
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Ethics Reform? Ethics Reform!
At 3:14 this morning, Gotham Gazzette’s David King wrote: There is talk around the capitol that an ethics agreement could be announced this week. It may be a long shot as most legislators have returned to their districts tonight but it is Albany and anything can happen. The official line as of this evening remained “talks are ongoing.” AND LO! The sun rose this morning on a new ethics deal being promoted by Republicans in the Assembly and Democrats in both houses: Senate Majority Conference Leader John Sampson, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb today announced the introduction of sweeping ethics and campaign finance reform legislation. The legislation will include provisions agreed to by both the … More >>
Tagged assembly, bipartisanship, ethics, legislation, ny senate
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From My 82 Year Old History Professor:
This is what my 82 years young history professor sent me in an email when I asked for his thoughts on the NYS Senate debacle: Re the New York Senate fight, you have to understand that all through American history, the New York state legislature – both houses – have been totally dysfunctional and often corrupt. It goes back go the delegation sent to the convention which resulted in the Declaration of Independence until today. It has always been a disgrace and will continue to be so until major changes are made in its rules and procedures. There is important business to be done before the Senate breaks for its summer recess and it will not happen. We would be … More >>
NY Appellate Court Issues Temporary Restraining Order on Espada
You can find a full copy on Senator Smith’s website here.
Tagged espada, ny senate, tro
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Up For Auction
A bit of levity from one of our readers: Hat Tip: Steven
Tagged espada, monserrate, ny senate
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What’s Wrong With The Democratic Party in NY–And What You Can Do About It
Yesterday, I went to the rally being held at City Hall in support of a Democratic majority in the Senate. It wasn’t a rally. It was a press conference. A press conference with a handful of politicians, flanked by another dozen-or-so “third-party validators” who had hastily come together to “protest” the GOP coup. It was clear that this was a top-down orchestration. They weren’t tapping into the groundswell of grassroots anger about the coup. There were precious few non-political types there. It was also not a very broad coalition–mostly incumbent NYC Dems. No Democratic U.S. Senators or Representatives. I understand the need to vehemently protest what has happened. But it’s been 48 hours since this coup occurred. And neither this … More >>
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