Posts Tagged ‘New York’

From TimesUnion:

In the race for the Democratic nomination for attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, with 25 percent and Kathleen Rice at 23 percent are similarly tight. Sean Coffey is at 13 percent, Richard Brodsky 7 percent and Eric Dinallo has 4 percent. Twenty-nine percent remain undecided.

Schneiderman’s camp claimed this as proof of the effect of a surge in endorsements in recent weeks. Coffey supporters said voters shouldn’t put much stock in polls.

The data, released Saturday, were collected in two polls conducted Tuesday through Thursday in calls to 1,225 likely primary voters. Greenberg said voters were asked a series of questions and must have voted in a recent primary.

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From YahooNews:

New York state attorney general candidate Kathleen Rice said on Thursday she hoped to renew the office’s focus on “kitchen table” issues and broaden the job beyond the role of the so-called “Sheriff of Wall Street.”

Rice, in her second term as Nassau County District Attorney, is one of five Democrats seeking the nomination to succeed Andrew Cuomo and Eliot Spitzer as the state’s chief prosecutor after Spitzer turned the office into an aggressive enforcer of financial crimes.

The winner of Tuesday’s primary will face Dan Donovan, the lone Republican running in the heavily Democratic state, in the November 2 general election.

“I think it’s important for the office to be known as ‘the People’s Attorney,'” Rice, 45, told Reuters in an interview. “I think that only calling it the ‘Sheriff of Wall Street’ is doing it a disservice to Main Street and the issues of everyday families that they deal with sitting at their kitchen table.”

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From LoHud:

They all speak highly of Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and shower him with praise, but for the five Democratic candidates vying to succeed him, none have been able to woo his endorsement just yet.

With days remaining before the spirited primary for the Democratic nomination for attorney general, Cuomo’s potential endorsement looms large in a race where turnout will be low and the margin of victory may be slim.

Cuomo, the Democratic frontrunner for governor, had the highest job-approval rating in the state at 69 percent, a Quinnipiac University poll found last week. He is also well ahead of his potential GOP gubernatorial foes in campaign cash and popularity.

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From NY1.com:

With primary day quickly approaching, the five Democrats vying for state attorney general squared off Tuesday night in a debate hosted by NY1.

Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, former prosecutor Sean Coffey, former state insurance superintendent Eric Dinallo, Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice and Manhattan State Senator Eric Schneiderman shared the stage at the Times Center in Midtown where they touted their own accomplishments and traded shots at one another’s records.

One of the biggest issues was the ability to reform politics in Albany.

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From the New York Times:

The math is easy: As much as 70 percent of Democratic primary voters in New York State live south and east of Bear Mountain. Accordingly, the candidates in this year’s primary for attorney general have spent much of their time seeking votes in New York City and its suburbs.

But with just a week to go before the vote, an unlikely contest is heating up for the allegiance of upstate Democrats, long the overlooked stepchildren of primary elections.

Sean Coffey, a wealthy lawyer who is a former federal prosecutor, has in recent weeks saturated markets outside the New York City region with television advertising, doubling the amount spent by the next closest candidate, Kathleen M. Rice, the Nassau County district attorney. Since May, Mr. Coffey has spent at least a day or two each week campaigning upstate. And in debates he has made a point of highlighting the issue of high property taxes, an issue with limited relevance to the attorney general’s office but major importance to suburban and rural voters.

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From New York Law Journal:

Richard L. Brodsky, an opinionated and tenacious lawmaker who has often been accused of grandstanding during his 27 years in the state Assembly, says he has a major asset to offer voters in the race for attorney general: political skills.

Mr. Brodsky said that his insider’s experience in shepherding complex environmental and governmental reform bills through the Legislature and past a series of governors has honed his ability to recognize problems, to listen to different viewpoints and to craft workable compromises to seemingly intractable problems.

He insisted that those skills make him unique in a year when the four other Democratic candidates for attorney general are catering to disgust at corruption scandals and the inability of lawmakers to perform basic governmental functions, such as passing a budget on time. “Throw the bums out” might be an understandable reaction, he argues, but it will not correct the mess in Albany.

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From voteupny.com:

In their first upstate debate, Democratic candidates for state attorney general took on issues from taxing cigarettes sold on reservations to whether they would investigate funding of a mosque near Ground Zero.

And which of the contenders — all from downstate — is most connected to western New York.

“Only two weeks to go,” said Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, D-Greenburgh, Westchester County, one of five candidates seeking the party nod in the Sept. 14 primary.

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From LoHud.com:

In their first upstate debate tonight, Democratic candidates for state attorney general took on issues from taxing cigarettes sold on reservations to whether they would investigate funding of a mosque near Ground Zero.

And which of the contenders — all from downstate — is most connected to upstate New York.

But of the five candidates seeking the party nod in the Sept. 14 primary, only three showed up. It was sponsored by Voice of the Voter, a collaboration between WXXI public broadcasting, the Democrat and Chronicle and WHAM-TV.

Those participating were Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, 64, D-Greenburgh; former state Insurance Superintendent Eric Dinallo, 47, of Manhattan; and former federal prosecutor and Navy officer Sean Coffey, 54, of Bronxville.

Candidates Eric Schneiderman, 55, a state senator from Manhattan, and Kathleen Rice, 45, the Nassau County district attorney, did not attend, citing previous commitments.

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From New York Times:

Bracing for what is expected to be a strong anti-Albany surge this fall, many Democratic candidates in New York have adopted the mantra of the middle, talking up pocketbook issues like jobs and taxes and focusing intently on moderate voters.

Then there is Eric T. Schneiderman, a state senator from the Upper West Side of Manhattan who is running for attorney general. Seeking to distinguish himself in a crowded field with slightly more than two weeks to go before the Democratic primary, Mr. Schneiderman is running a proudly liberal campaign that appears aimed at charging the race with a more ideological flavor.

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From silive.com:

Crossing party lines, former Democratic North Shore City Councilman Jerome O’Donovan yesterday endorsed GOP District Attorney Daniel Donovan’s run for attorney general.

“Dan Donovan has been a tremendous prosecutor who has aggressively targeted crime on Staten Island,” said O’Donovan, who campaigned against Donovan in the 2003 district attorney race. “While I will support Democrats for other federal, state and local offices in November, this is different.”

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