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RSLC: Poll Shows Majority of New Yorkers Oppose Democrat Gains in State Senate
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 11:26 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 25 August 2010 03:48
ALEXANDRIA, VA – Leading up to an election in which control of the New York Senate hangs in the balance, voters are sending clear signals that they are fed up with Democrat control and overblown budgets and will be looking elsewhere this November.
In a Siena College poll of registered New York voters released this morning, an alarming 61 percent indicated they do not want Democrats to increase their slim 32-30 state senate majority. Fifty-one percent of voters said they prefer someone besides their incumbent state senator.
“Senate Democrats in Albany have proven themselves to be reckless and out-of-control spenders, tax-raisers and job killers and have tagged the voters of New York with the tab,” said RSLC Vice Chair Tom Reynolds who also served as NY State Assembly Minority Leader and as a U.S. Congressman from New York. “This poll demonstrates that the New York electorate is unhappy and is demanding results on creating new jobs, lowering taxes and stopping spending.”
“By a nearly three-to-one margin, voters believe the recently enacted state budget will worsen, not improve, the state’s long term fiscal condition,” according to the poll. Forty-one percent believe the state’s condition will worsen as a result of the Democrat budget that includes billions of dollars in tax increases, while only 15 percent think it will do anything to improve it. “Voters continue to be pessimistic about the fiscal condition of New York, which is reflected in the fact that two-thirds of voters believe the state is headed in the wrong direction and only 21 percent believe the state is on the right track,” said Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg.
“This is a situation we see playing out across the country. In state after state, voters are sick and tired of liberal, big government policies and are going to speak with their vote in just over two months,” Reynolds concluded.
The most recent REDistricting MAjority Project (REDMAP) Political Report included the New York Senate as one Democrat controlled chamber from key states that is solidly “in play.” REDMAP is a program of the RSLC dedicated to winning Republican control of state legislatures that will have the most impact on Congressional redistricting in 2011.
The RSLC is the largest caucus of Republican state leaders and the only national organization whose mission is to elect down ballot, state-level Republican office-holders. Since 2002, the RSLC has been working to elect candidates for the office of attorney general, lieutenant governor, secretary of state and state legislator. The RSLC consistently raises and spends an average of more than $20 million, per two-year cycle, from more than 80,000 donors and from all 50 states.
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NY: Democrat Rips another Democrat in AG Race
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 11:27 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 24 August 2010 11:02
From New York Post:
Attorney-general hopeful Kathleen Rice unloaded both barrels yesterday on fellow Democratic contender Eric Schneiderman, saying it would be “dangerous” to trust the longtime state senator with policing public corruption.
Rice said Schneiderman (D-Manhattan) has missed “125 opportunities” to call on scandal-scarred Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. (D-Bronx) to step down as Senate majority leader in the wake of civil charges.
Rice, the two-term Nassau County district attorney, called Schneiderman’s endorsement of Espada’s primary opponent, Gustavo Rivera, “too little, too late.”
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NY: Democrat Calls Democrat’s Endorsement ‘Hypocritical’
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 11:36 Written by rslcpol Friday, 13 August 2010 01:17
From BuffaloNews.com:
The campaign of Tim Kennedy dismissed as hypocritical an endorsement picked up today by Sen. William Stachowski from a Democratic attorney general candidate.
Sean Coffey, a former federal prosecutor and Naval aviator, backed Stachowski, in part, to stop what he said was an effort by G. Steven Pigeon, a former Erie County Democratic Party chairman, from getting another ally in office at the state Capitol.
But Kennedy, an Erie County legislator who has been close to Pigeon, fired back today, saying Stachowski had accepted “numerous” contributions from Pigeon, including a $350 donation just this past May.
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NY Voters Want Lawmakers Out
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 11:48 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 28 July 2010 01:37
From Bloomberg.com:
New York voters favor sweeping their state legislators from office in the November election, a Quinnipiac University poll reported today.
Fifty-three percent said the state senator in their district should be ousted, with 35 percent opposed. New Yorkers favor removing their state assembly member, 49 percent to 33 percent, the poll found.
Voters told interviewers “their own state senator should be swept out of office in a general housecleaning,” Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a statement.
The survey, conducted July 20-26, coincided with the state Legislature’s failure to complete a budget due April 1. Governor David Paterson ordered lawmakers to convene tonight for a special session on revenue measures to close a $9.2 billion revenue gap and pay for a $136 billion spending plan approved earlier this month.
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New York Post: Democrat AG wannabes Play ‘hooky’
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 11:53 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 20 July 2010 12:04
From New York Post:
Attorney-general hopefuls Richard Brodsky and Eric Schneiderman are among the Legislature’s biggest truants this year, often skipping out on their current jobs as they seek higher office, a Post analysis has found.
Brodsky, a Westchester assemblyman, missed three out of every 10 session days for a total of 24 absences, making him the sixth-most truant member in the 150-seat Assembly, according to voting records.
Schneiderman, a Manhattan senator, was absent or excused on six of this year’s 80 session days, tying him for the Senate’s second-worst record.
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Politico: GOP Eyes Turning Tides in New York
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 11:57 Written by rslcpol Friday, 16 July 2010 12:47
From The Politico:
New York state is serving as a key litmus test for the House this year, as Republicans try to take back a handful of the seats they lost in the past two election cycles to Democrats riding a wave of anti-war sentiment and Bush administration fatigue.
The Empire State — or at least the portions of the state that look more like the rest of the country than the left-leaning New York City area — has seen its congressional representation shift from majority- to almost entirely Democratic in recent years.
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NY AG Hopefuls Report Funds
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 11:57 Written by rslcpol Friday, 16 July 2010 12:39
From Times Union:
Two of the five Democrats vying to be attorney general raised more than $1 million from their supporters in the last six months, according to required disclosure forms filed Thursday with the state Board of Elections.
Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice and Sen. Eric Schneiderman raised $2.9 million and $1.6 million since January, respectively, adding credence to the belief in political circles that the two are front-runners in a crowded field.
Sean Coffey, a litigator and former prosecutor, bolstered his coffers by $2.78 million over the six-month period, but $2 million of that was a loan from Coffey to his campaign; he committed to the self-financing in April. Former insurance superintendent Eric Dinallo raised $787,000, and Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, D-Westchester, raised $519,154.
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NY: Race for AG still Close
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 11:59 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 15 July 2010 12:52
From the NY Times:
A spokeswoman for Mr. Donovan said he had been actively fund-raising only since the beginning of June. And unlike Ms. Rice, Mr. Donovan faces no opponent in the September primary.
Officials for the campaigns of four other Democratic candidates for the job — State Senator Eric T. Schneiderman; Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky; Eric R. Dinallo, a former state insurance superintendent; and Sean Coffey, a plaintiffs’ lawyer and a former prosecutor — said they were not yet ready to reveal the fund-raising figures they would be submitting to the Board of Elections by Thursday, the formal deadline, in part because they were still processing donations and paperwork. As always in an election campaign, such numbers do not necessarily correlate to political viability.
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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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NY: ‘Freedom Party’ Announces Attorney General and Lt. Governor Candidates
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 12:05 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 8 July 2010 11:04
From New York Amsterdam News:
“I’m a fan of history. I thought of Fannie Lou Hamer and what she had to go through when she had to fight for the rights of Blacks to vote,” said Eva Doyle as she spoke to the AmNews from her home in Buffalo, N.Y.
The name of Hamer’s party? The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
Doyle looks to follow in Hamer’s footsteps as she runs for lieutenant governor of New York State under the current Freedom Party ticket led by Councilman Charles Barron, who is challenging Andrew Cuomo for governor. Ramon Jimenez, a Bronx native, will run for state attorney general.
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