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By Eliot Brown 7/26/10 7:19pm

Time to Make the Sausage

Big Real Estate Warms to Senate Dems

For many years in Albany, a town with many an uncertainty, there was one constant: Joe Bruno was the majority leader in the Senate, and the New York City real estate world was a loyal benefactor. The industry was a steadfast supporter of that Republican majority, and poured campaign contributions into Republican coffers (and not, Read More

By Eliot Brown 7/20/10 7:10pm

Time to Make the Sausage

Myers Mermel, Generous Republican

It seems M. Myers Mermel—the real estate adviser and investor who briefly campaigned this spring to be the Republican nominee for governor (following a few months of campaigning to be the party’s nominee as Lieutenant Governor)—became quite the generous campaign donor this year.

In an apparent effort to earn recognition and goodwill within the state Read More