Assemblyman Sam Hoyt is gung-ho for getting high-speed rail system to New York. Hoyt wrote a letter to President-elect Barack Obama, asking for a portion of the proposed $500 billion stimulus package (which includes signifcant funding for infrastructre improvements) to include funding for a high-speed rail between New York City and Buffalo. Hoyt recently penned [...]
The state Assembly’s Ethics and Guidance Committee yesterday met behind closed doors for four hours, weighing the fate of an upstate lawmaker who carried on a hot and heavy affair with an intern. The panel has been mulling how to discipline Assemblyman Sam Hoyt (D-Buffalo) since last month, when a political blog posted explicit e-mails [...]
The ex-intern embroiled in a sex scandal with a married upstate lawmaker never intended for X-rated e-mails detailing their affair to go public, her lawyer said yesterday. Lori Gradwell began her fling with Assemblyman Sam Hoyt (D-Buffalo) in May 2003, when she was wrapping up a six-month internship with another legislator, sources close to the [...]
A married upstate assemblyman got caught with his virtual pants down – busted by XXX-rated e-mails he dashed off to a 19-year-old intern in which the besotted lawmaker admired the teen’s “little cheerleader move” and longed to be her “human lollipop.” In one November 2003 sex message to “blueskies588,” Assemblyman Sam Hoyt made it embarrassingly [...]
Another sex scandal rocked Albany on Tuesday after salacious e-mails from a married assemblyman to his reported intern lover ended up on the Internet. In a statement last night, Assemblyman Sam Hoyt, a Buffalo Democrat and father of two, did not deny that the e-mails, posted on PoliticsNY.net, were his. But he rejected the blog’s [...]
