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NY: GOP AG Candidate wants Paterson contract Investigated
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 12:02 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 13 July 2010 01:37
From Capitol Confidential:
Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan wishes the attorney general had the power to investigate a $297 million contract awarded to the firm that employs First Lady Michelle Paige Paterson. Donovan is the GOP’s designated AG candidate.
Company officials said the first lady had nothing to do with the contract — first reported by the New York Post on Monday. It was not competitively bid.
Donovan cites the Post regarding a legislative investigation, which according to Newsday is not actually in the works. Paterson has denied he even knew about the contract. Here’s Donovan’s statement:
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AR: Attorney General to Pay for his use of State Car
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 12:03 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 13 July 2010 01:24
But did it have flame decals like that other (now former) Democrat Attorney General’s?
From arkansasbusiness.com:
Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel on Monday said he’ll reimburse the state $2,903 for personal use of his state vehicle and apologized to Lt. Gov. Bill Halter for criticism he leveled at Halter for reporting the use of his state car as personal income.
McDaniel, who last week said he would give up his state-issued hybrid SUV, said he would pay back the state based on a law requiring employees to reimburse the state 15 cents a mile for any personal mileage on a state vehicle. The law, however, specifically exempts constitutional officers.
“Nonetheless, I think it’s the best way for me legally and ethically to resolve the issues going forward,” McDaniel said, according to prepared remarks for a speech he delivered Monday morning in Eureka Springs. McDaniel’s office said he planned to deliver the same speech in Springdale Monday night.
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AR: AG Won’t Pay Taxes, Gives up his State Car
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 12:05 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 8 July 2010 10:38
From Arkansas Online:
Attorney General Dustin McDaniel announced Wednesday that he would no longer drive a state vehicle because whether he should have paid income taxes for its use is a “gray area.”
“I make sure my office operates ethically and is accountable to the public, and must always lead by example,” McDaniel said.
But McDaniel said he won’t pay back-taxes on past use of a state vehicle because he has done nothing wrong.
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NY State Dems ‘fed up’ with their Senate Majority Leader
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 12:11 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 6 July 2010 09:18
From YourNewsNow:
State Democratic leaders are reportedly fed up with Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. and are looking to boot him from the party.
According to the New York Post, a top state party official has drafted a le
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Democrat AG Candidates agree they don’t like Ousted Democrat
Last Updated on Monday, 28 June 2010 01:29 Written by rslcpol Monday, 28 June 2010 01:29
From DailyNews:
Hopefuls Richard Brodsky, Sean Coffey, Eric Dinallo, Kathleen Rice and Eric Schneiderman are endorsing fellow Democrat Francisco Moya for the 39th Assembly District seat. They say Monserrate, an ousted Queens state senator, has zero business in public office.
“I’m honored that these five statewide leaders recognize my commitment to reform,” Moya said Sunday. “Their endorsement demonstrates that even while Democrats may disagree on some things, we are ready to come together for the cause of reform.”
The state Senate voted in February to eject Monserrate following his misdemeanor conviction for roughing up his then-girlfriend, Karla Giraldo.
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NJ Democrat Admits to Falsifying Campaign Finance Records
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 12:22 Written by rslcpol Monday, 28 June 2010 12:48
From NJ.com:
Assemblyman Anthony Chiappone said he was prepared to go to trial this fall and fight charges he had swiped the paychecks of his legislative aides and used the cash to help finance his 2005 re-election campaign.
Instead, the Hudson County Democrat, who has held public office for 12 years, accepted a plea bargain in state Superior Court in Mercer County that likely will allow him to stay out of jail. Most importantly, he said, his guilty plea means prosecutors will drop the case against his wife, Diane.
“It’s very upsetting that it came to what it came to today,’’ Chiappone, 52, said after the hearing. “In my mind, I was geared to going to trial. I had a dismissal hearing on the way. But there is another person involved, and it’s my wife. I’m doing what’s best for my family.”
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Democrat Governor Feels Heat for Sending Doll Head to Lawmaker
Last Updated on Thursday, 24 June 2010 01:49 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 24 June 2010 01:49
From wdadradio.com:
Governor Ed Rendell is feeling heat on a number of fronts, with a budget crisis, having to deal with a rumored extramarital affair, and now his strong-arm tactics with a Democrat lawmaker who is reticent to approve Rendell’s proposed wellhead severance tax on Marcellus Shale gas.
Last week, Rendell severed the head from a Tim Solobay bobblehead doll and sent it to the Washington County representative with a hand-written note pressuring Solobay to vote for the tax. Rendell says it was all in fun and he’s used humor such as that in the past, but it’s worn thin with lawmakers…Representative Sam Smith’s spokesman, Stephen Miskin, says it’s “sickening”.
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IL: Blago Looking for an Escape
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 12:29 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 24 June 2010 01:38
From WJBDRadio.com:
Rod Blagojevich wanted out of Illinois in November 2008, and with the door closing on his opportunity to fill Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat, he sought escape through organized labor.
Tapes obtained through FBI wiretaps show an increasingly desperate Blagojevich grasping at straws, as he tried to allegedly cash in on the Senate seat left open by then-president elect Obama. “(Obama’s) gonna resign on Tuesday or Wednesday and they’re gonna start putting pressure (to fill the seat),” Blagojevich told his Chief of Staff John Harris on Nov. 7. Obama resigned from the Senate nine days later.
As the pressure to appoint Obama’s friend Valerie Jarrett to the seat mounted, Blagojevich’s demands shrunk. He began floating ideas about a move to the private sector with the help of his supporters in organized labor, rather than a top cabinet post in the administration. This came as a relief to Harris, who had previously warned Blagojevich he may be reaching too high. “I always thought his future lied somewhere in organized labor,” Harris testified on Wednesday during Blagojevich’s federal corruption trial.
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Democrat State Senator Attacks!
Last Updated on Monday, 21 June 2010 01:08 Written by rslcpol Monday, 21 June 2010 01:08
From Florida Capital News:
State Sen. Al Lawson angrily snatched a video camera from a young campaign worker for U.S. Rep. Allen Boyd on Saturday, complaining that the congressman “crossed the line” in their Big Bend congressional campaign by invading his private political space.
Boyd’s campaign complained to Tallahassee police, saying the camcorder-toting staffer was “attacked” and that the video recorder was stolen. Tallahassee Police Department spokesman David McCranie said officers will talk to witnesses on both sides and decide how to proceed.
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IL: Blago Goes to Court Tomorrow
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 12:53 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 2 June 2010 12:21
From the Washington Post:
When Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor, steps into a federal courtroom on Thursday, his madcap appearances on “Celebrity Apprentice” and the Second City comedy stage will be history. He will be playing to an audience of 13 — a dozen jurors and one no-nonsense judge — in the most pivotal performance of his life.
Blagojevich, who likes to say that he has never lost an election, will face three supremely experienced prosecutors, the same ones who put his friend Antoin Rezko, a notorious Chicago fundraiser, behind bars. They will be marshaling dozens of secretly taped conversations and the testimony of some of Blagojevich’s closest allies, now witnesses for the prosecution.
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