Posts Tagged ‘New York’
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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NY Governor to Veto $600M from Budget
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 12:17 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 30 June 2010 01:32
From The Business Review:
New York Gov. David Paterson, as promised, has started vetoing 6,900 spending items included in a budget plan approved Monday by the Senate and Assembly.
In all, Paterson will ax more than $600 million in spending approved by legislators in votes on Monday. Paterson called the spending a “gimmick” and said legislators were “self-serving” and “fantasizing” that certain revenue would materialize.
The largest items to go: $419 million of extra money for K-12 education, plus close to $200 million in grants, mostly for nonprofits. The budget votes, though, avoid a government shutdown.
Paterson’s vetoes mean legislators will have to hold another vote on the spending to override it. An override in the Senate is improbable: At least 10 Republicans would have to support the override, assuming all 32 Democrats voted in favor of it, to reach the required two-thirds majority.
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NY: Governor’s Last ‘Bullet’ is Veto
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 12:19 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 29 June 2010 12:14
From New York Post:
Now that he’s been out maneuvered and humiliated by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver in the crucial struggle for a new budget, Gov. Paterson has no choice but to declare war on the man who has long personified state government’s hidebound tax-and-spend ways.
That means veto, veto and veto.
Paterson was outmaneuvered by Silver last year when, in the depth of the recession, he agreed to a record-high budget that hiked taxes by $8 billion — so Silver and his Democratic cohorts could keep cash flowing to their teachers-union and hospital-worker allies.
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NY Republican AG Candidate Vows to Fight Political Corruption
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 12:23 Written by rslcpol Friday, 25 June 2010 12:56
From FloralParkDispatch:
Fighting political corruption in Albany is what Republican candidate Daniel M. Donovan Jr. says will be his top priority should he be elected the next New York Attorney General. Vying for the top prosecutor’s seat, along with five Democratic hopefuls, the Staten Island District Attorney spoke candidly with editors of Anton Community Newspapers during a recent visit to Long Island.
A native Staten Islander, Donovan, 53, worked his way through college at St. John’s University, and took on student loans while attending Fordham Law School at night. Prior to being elected district attorney, Donovan served for eight years under Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau. After leaving Morgenthau’s office, Donovan began serving Staten Island in 1996 as chief of staff to then Borough President Guy V. Molinari who is a former member of Congress. In January 2002, Mr. Donovan was appointed deputy borough president, serving under Borough President James P. Molinaro. As a candidate for district attorney in 2003, he defeated the chief assistant of the outgoing district attorney, who had held his position for more than 20 years. He was reelected in 2007 and received 68 percent of the vote where Democrats outnumber Republicans 5 to 3, according to Donovan.
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NY Democrat Takes Shot at Other Democrat AG Hopefuls
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 12:23 Written by rslcpol Friday, 25 June 2010 12:38
From LoHud.com:
Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice, one of five Democrats running for attorney general, said on TALK 1300 AM in Albany this morning that the job is one for a lawyer, “not a career politician,” and she took shots specifically at Sen. Eric Schneiderman, D-Manhattan, and Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, D-Greenburgh, two of her four opponents. She also said she’s an “outsider” and not a “Wall Street insider” or someone who donates hundreds of thousands of dollars to political campaigns.
On Schneiderman, Rice said, “He doesn’t have the experience to do this job. This is a job for a lawyer, not a career politician. That’s the difference between Senator Schneiderman and the difference between me.”
Schneiderman, who is a lawyer, has been a senator since 1999. Brodsky, an assemblyman since 1982, is also a lawyer. Other Democratic contenders for the Sept. 14 primary are former federal prosecutor Sean Coffey; and Eric Dinallo, former commissioner of the state Insurance Department and a lawyer.
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NY: Democrats Losing Independents
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 12:36 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 16 June 2010 01:42
From TimesUnion.com:
Both Andrew Cuomo, the attorney general who is the party’s standard-bearer, and U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, a figure of statewide and national prominence and a media fixture, saw their favorability ratings slip, particularly among independent voters. In a month, Cuomo’s rating dropped from 60 to 51 percent and Schumer’s from 54 to 41 percent.
“Independents are even more negative about the direction of this state than are Democrats and Republicans, and I believe that what we’re seeing is independents saying, ‘Jeez, you guys have been in control and made this place even more dysfunctional.’ As a result, a significant number of independents moved from the Democrats,” said Steve Greenberg, a spokesman for the Siena Research Institute, which conducted the poll.
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NY: Democrat AG Cuomo Loses Ground in Governor Race
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 12:40 Written by rslcpol Monday, 14 June 2010 12:56
From UTICAOD.com:
A new poll shows Democratic candidate Andrew Cuomo has lost some ground and his Republican opponents in the governor’s race are looking better to New York voters.
The Siena College poll found Cuomo’s favorability rating dropped to its lowest level since 2008. While still high at 59 percent, that’s 8 points lower than when he announced his candidacy last month. His lead among independent votes dropped 20 points.
Meanwhile, Republican candidate Rick Lazio and Carl Paladino, who’s trying to petition his way into a GOP primary, have narrowed Cuomo’s lead to its smallest in the race so far.
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NY: State Shutdown Looms
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 12:44 Written by rslcpol Friday, 11 June 2010 01:20
From the Business Review:
New York state leaders continue to brace for an unprecedented government shutdown on June 14—even though no one knows exactly what would happen.
The state has subsisted on a series of emergency spending plans, in lieu of a state budget, which is now 72 days late. The latest spending plan expires after this weekend.
Legislators are scheduled to vote on a new, one-week-long spending plan on June 14. The bill would continue to fund bare-bones state operations.
But now, more than ever, it remains unclear if the bill will pass the Senate. The ensuing government shutdown would be unprecedented in state history.
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NY: Republican Picks Lt. Governor Candidate
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 12:48 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 8 June 2010 02:02
From WBEN.com:
Ognibene is a former New York City Councilman and minority leader that Paladino says he selected for Lieutenant Governor because of his conservatism and management experience in government.
Paladino has made no formal announcement of the choice, but has links to an interview he gave on the topic on the campaign website and Facebook accounts.
In that interview with Time Warner Cable’s Capitol Tonight program, Paladino tells moderator Liz Benjamin that he selected Ognibene without thinking much about many other candidates.
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NY AG Cuomo Hints at his Successor
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 12:49 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 8 June 2010 12:38
From TimesUnion.com:
Andrew Cuomo has shown little hesitation about flexing his muscle in the political landscape, so a remark he made Monday morning about which of the five Democrats vying to be the next attorney general was well scrutinized.
Cuomo, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate and retiring AG, said he would “most likely” make a public preference known before the September primary.
“There are a number of quality candidates in that race,” Cuomo said during an interview on WGDJ 1300-AM. “I’m looking at Kathleen Rice. I’m looking at Sean Coffey. I’m looking at Eric Dinallo. There are a number of them there, and I’ll have a decision down the road.”
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