Posts Tagged ‘New York’
NY: Governor Paterson won’t be Attending Obama Event
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:17 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 13 May 2010 01:32
From WBEN.com:
While many other Democratic dignitaries will be on hand to welcome President Barack Obama, don’t expect any glad-handing from Gov. David Paterson when Obama visits Buffalo.
The only item on the governor’s official schedule today is a radio interview in New York City, and apparently won’t be in Buffalo.
Earlier this week, he told WBEN that – as of that time– he was uncertain of whether he would be in town and just one day after the event was announced publicly Paterson said he didn’t know if he was invited.
“In his own way, I think the Governor was expressing his unhappiness that the courtesy of giving him a heads up, letting him know that the President of the United States is coming into the state that he heads, wasn’t given to him,” says New York Post editor and Albany commentator Fred Dicker.
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NY: AG Sees a Boost during his Silence on Governor Seat
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:19 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 12 May 2010 01:11
From DemocratandChronicle.com:
A week ago, statewide officials and legislative leaders each took turns answering questions about the ethical woes and the dysfunction that persists at the state Capitol.
But there was one glaring omission from the roster of leaders who spoke: Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, the presumptive Democratic nominee for governor.
Cuomo’s no-show, some observers said, illustrated the popular attorney general’s political strategy: Stay above the tumultuous times in Albany and avoid getting dragged down with it — at least for as long as possible.
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NY: AG Race gets Heated
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:26 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 5 May 2010 01:51
From the New York Post:
Candidates are pulling no punches in the vitriolic race for state attorney general, with state Sen. Eric Schneiderman accusing Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice of presiding over a major spike in crime.
Schneiderman pointed to new statistics that show murder jumped 15 percent, larceny 12 percent and overall crime 4 percent since Rice became DA in 2006.
“These new statistics put to rest any doubt: Crime has gone up in Nassau under the current DA’s watch and crime in the county is outpacing both New York City and the rest of the state, period,” said Schneiderman’s spokesman Eric Koch.
Team Rice shot back with different statistics on the county’s website that show crime down 3 percent in the county from last year to this.
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NY: Democrat Senator goes on Wild Rant
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:33 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 29 April 2010 01:32
From WCBSTV.com:
It looks like the circus and childish antics are rearing their ugly head once again in Albany.
It started as an angry blow-up, and then it escalated. A state senator with a history of anger management issues says his race-based rant was part of his fight against the “evil of white supremacy.”
Brooklyn State Senator Kevin Parker is a well-documented hothead, and on Wednesday he took to the airwaves to unapologetically defend his latest shouting match.
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NY: Charges Filed against Democrat State Senator
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:33 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 28 April 2010 01:38
From TimesUnion.com:
– Embattled state Sen. Pedro Espada enriched himself at the expense of poorly paid laborers by setting up a sham job training program, state authorities charged Wednesday in a civil lawsuit.
The suit, filed by state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, claims that a property management company set up by Espada and his son to perform work at health clinics they controlled paid janitorial workers as little as $1.70 per hour by mislabeling them as trainees.
In lieu of a full paycheck, the suit said, workers earned a worthless certificate recognizing them for completing a “healthcare maintenance internship.”
“The job training program was a sham. There was no training, there was no program,” Cuomo said Wednesday. He said at least 100 workers had been victimized since 2005.
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NY Democrats Eye Attorney General Job
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:34 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 27 April 2010 01:03
From WNYC:
While Democrats statewide wait for New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to announce whether he plans to run for governor, the Democrats who want his job are already hard at work.
This Friday five attorney general hopefuls face their first test at the Democratic Rural Conference in Niagara Falls. Conference chair Irene Stein says the caucus represents Democrats in 47 of the state’s 62 counties. She says rural voters are being canvassed by phone and in person. Stein says no front-runner has emerged yet.
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NY AG Expected to Announce Run for Governor
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:37 Written by rslcpol Monday, 26 April 2010 12:57
From Democrat&Chronicle.com:
The state’s Democratic Rural Conference is expected to interview just about every Democratic candidate for statewide office in advance of its convention at month’s end. But so far there’s one glaring exception: state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, the party’s presumptive nominee for governor.
Cuomo has yet to announce his plans to run for governor, despite criticism from his political opponents over his silence on the campaign trail. And he has yet to agree to sit down with the rural conference.
But Cuomo’s announcement to run for governor is expected in the days before the Democratic Rural Conference on April 30 and May 1 in Niagara Falls. The conference is considered a bellwether for Democratic candidates because the group of upstate party leaders will conduct a straw poll on whom it will endorse for this year’s races.
And Cuomo in the past has been well received by the group. He won its endorsement in 2002 in his first run for governor, which ended unsuccessfully when he pulled out of the race days before the primary against frontrunner H. Carl McCall.
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NY: Democrat Senate Leader’s Problems Grow
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:38 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 22 April 2010 11:50
From DemocratandChronicle.com:
The legal and political troubles for embattled Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada grew Wednesday as law-enforcement officials raided his government-funded health clinic in the Bronx and some senators called for him to step down as majority leader.
Agents from the FBI, IRS and the state Attorney General’s Office descended on the Soundview Healthcare Network about 7 a.m., removing boxes of potential evidence. Officials said Espada may face a number of criminal charges, ranging from wire and mail fraud, to money laundering and theft of government funds.
Espada, who has said that he is innocent, called Wednesday’s developments “politically fueled.”
Espada received an excused absence from the legislative session on Wednesday, leaving Democrats without the 32 votes necessary to pass any major bills. Democrats hold a 32-30 majority.
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NY: Democrat State Senate Leader Says Dem AG’s Lawsuit ‘Political Payback’
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:41 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 21 April 2010 08:28
From the Business Review:
New York state Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. (D-Bronx) slammed a lawsuit filed against him by state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo as “political payback.”
Espada vowed he would remain majority leader, one of the Senate’s most powerful positions. Doing so would preserve Democrats’ slim 32-30 majority in the chamber.
In addition, Espada likened Cuomo to former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, and claimed Cuomo supported the political gridlock Espada engineered in the summer of 2009.
On April 20, Cuomo accused Espada of stealing $14 million of taxpayer money from his nonprofit health care organization, known as Soundview, and using it for himself, his family and his political campaigns.
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NY: Democrat AG Sues Democrat Senate Leader; Accused of Siphoning $14 Million from Government-funded Clinic
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:42 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 20 April 2010 01:35
From TownHall.com:
The majority leader of New York’s Senate is accused of siphoning $14 million from his government-funded clinic in the Bronx for lavish restaurant meals, trips to Las Vegas and his own campaign, according to a civil lawsuit announced Tuesday by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.
The suit against Democratic Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. covers five years of spending, the last two of which Espada spent as a senator representing the Bronx. The suit also names 19 other current and former officials of Espada’s Comprehensive Community Development Corp., known locally as Soundview and operating on about $12 million annually, mostly from state and federal government funds.
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