The spokesman for Marty Connor’s re-election campaign, Chad Marlow, supports term limits, even though his boss, a state senator, has been in office since 1978.
In 2005, when the City Council was reportedly looking to alter the city’s term-limit laws, Marlow authored a blog post on the Drum Major Institute’s web site called "Confessions Read More
On the surface, the story is a familiar one.
A young insurgent, Dan Squadron, decides to challenge an entrenched incumbent, Marty Connor, in a State Senate race, in a year when public antipathy towards the ossified ways of Albany is greater than it has been in recent memory. The line between underdog liberal reformer and Read More
Since Dean Skelos, the new State Senate majority leader, has said he will make addressing property taxes a major priority, and it’s likely that taxes will be an issue in the upcoming election, I recently asked both candidates in the 25th Senate District about their positions on the issue.
Incumbent Marty Connor favors Read More
Superintern Bharat Ayyar has a report from a protest against reopening the Brooklyn House of Detention, where a hearty collection of elected officials pointed out that "people live here now."
He also sent in this dispatch on a delicate situation that unfolded there:
There was an unexpected guest at this afternoon’s rally to stop Read More
Earlier this afternoon, a diverse cast of politicians gathered in front of the Brooklyn House of Detention on Atlantic Avenue to protest the Bloomberg administration’s plan to reopen and expand the downtown jail. (It was the Bloomberg administration that closed it back in 2003, due to high costs).
Councilman and city comptroller Read More
State Senator Marty Connor announced he got the endorsement of UFCW Local 1500, a union that backed his opponent in 2006.
The union picked Connor without conducting an interview with either the senator or his opponent, Dan Squadron.
According to an email from a Connor spokesman, union president Bruce Both explained: “You will notice that Read More
Democracy for New York City’s decision to endorse neither State Senator Marty Connor nor his challenger–former Chuck Schumer aide Dan Squadron–has sparked an interesting debate among some stalwarts of the progressive Democratic community.
(It should be noted how the decision came about: neither Connor nor Squadron got 60 percent of votes from DFNYC voting Read More
Last night, Dan Squadron won the endorsement of the Downtown Independent Democrats, one of the major clubs in the district.
That’s a blow to his opponent, incumbent State Senator Marty Connor (especially since the club voted to endorse other local incumbents seeking reelection: Jerry Nadler and Sheldon Silver).
In a brief chat this morning, Read More
Streetsblog quoted State Senator Marty Connor talking about congestion pricing during a debate this weekend with his challenger, former Chuck Schumer aide Dan Squadron.
The quote went: “Congestion pricing—I supported it. I didn’t tell anybody; I didn’t take a position on it. I supported it.”
Which would mean that Connor was saying that Read More
The closing statements from yesterday’s debate between 30-year incumbent State Senator Marty Connor and his Democratic challenger, former Chuck Schumer aide Dan Squadron, captured one of the most significant dynamics of this race (and the presidential one): the clash between experience and change. Squadron painted Connor’s as insufficiently progressive, while Connor characterized Squadron as naive Read More
