The two candidates were once friends, with one crediting the other for bringing him into Republican Party leadership. But the competition for the Republican nomination for a Congressional seat on Staten Island has produced a level of rancor that has left the two candidates bitterly sparring and the party in disarray. In the last week, [...]
A federal judge has paved the way for a corruption trial against a senior state senator, Efrain Gonzalez Jr., by rejecting a call to dismiss his indictment. In a memorandum issued Tuesday, U.S. District Judge William Pauley called arguments for dismissal “without merit” and “all rejected.” As a result of the decision, the U.S attorney [...]
As he weighs a bid to rewrite New York City’s term limits, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is encountering an unlikely group of opponents: his own aides. Three of Mr. Bloomberg’s most trusted advisers at City Hall — Deputy Mayors Edward Skyler, Patricia E. Harris and Kevin Sheekey — have confided to associates that they oppose [...]
The latest financial statements from the candidates for the 24th District Congressional seat show incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Michael Arcuri took in more than twice the amount his Republican challenger Richard Hanna did. Hanna, a businessman from the Cooperstown area, brought in $60,048 in contributions during the period from July 1 through Aug. 20, compared [...]
District Attorney David Soares’ re-election team is backing an effort to bounce challenger Roger Cusick off November’s ballot, citing nominating petitions “riddled with forged and fraudulent signatures.” The first-term Democratic prosecutor did not have an opponent lined up this year until Cusick, a Republican who lost to Soares in 2004, jumped into the race earlier [...]
Mayor Bloomberg, who describes himself as a fervent supporter of term limits, said yesterday he can’t recall how he voted as an everyday citizen when the issue hit New York City ballots in 1993 and 1996. “I don’t remember at all,” Bloomberg said. “I just don’t remember in either case.” In both instances, voters overwhelmingly [...]
The city is slashing the number of parking permits it gives education employees by 82%, leaving staff to scramble for 11,150 spots outside of schools across the city. Mayor Bloomberg had vowed in January to trim the number of placards by 20% – a cut of 12,600, considerably less than the the 52,240-placard hit educators [...]
For the last two years, Saquan Jones, an auditor at Columbia University, has planned his political future, a plan that has led to his becoming a candidate for an open City Council seat in Brooklyn. Months ago, he held fund-raising events and started his campaign Web site, and he has taken a more hectic schedule [...]
State Assemblyman Greg Ball has denied allegations that he violated a temporary protective order lodged against him and that he had a sexually transmitted disease. Ball held a news conference yesterday afternoon following publication of an article in the Putnam County Times that included a reprint of a temporary protection order obtained by his former [...]
As B. Thomas Golisano’s new political organization mailed its first political flier against Sam Hoyt this week — “Albany Sam Hoyt Is All Frosting and No Cake” — Hoyt’s chief political strategist has accused a Golisano aide of breaking state election law. John F. O’Donnell Jr., a political consultant, went directly from working on Barbra [...]
