By the New York Delegation, Madness Lies

DENVER–During the speeches leading up to Hillary Clinton’s primetime address to the Democratic Convention last night, the New York delegation seemed distracted.

"We don’t need McCain here — put them down!," Maria Luna, a Clinton delegate from Manhattan, screamed at her delegation, which was waving "McCain More of the Same" signs above their heads. She Read More

King vs Newsday

Pete King says he is completely confident that he will win reelection tonight, and he is still trying to figure out why, aside from a couple of questionable polls, anyone ever thought he was in trouble.

His answer: It was Newsday.

“It’s five hours to the polls, but based on everything I know, as Read More

Money for Mejias

Dave Mejias recieved some good news last week when the DCCC added his race against Rep. Peter King in the 3rd Congressional district to their “red to blue” program.

I’d heard a rumor since then that the Mejias campaign had actually receieved less money from the DCCC than they were expecting. But campaign manager Read More

Pete King v. the Automatons

Pete King has spent the last couple of weeks dismissing the notion that he’s in a close race, an impression that stems largely from a poll that showed him leading little-known challenger Democrat Dave Mejias by only two points. He argued that the polling firm, Constituent Dynamics, was unreliable because it used automated pollsters, Read More

Peter King Calls the Republicans a Bunch of Wimps

Peter King is worried that his fellow Republicans are turning into wimps.

“I find it frustrating sometimes with the Republicans—you want to shake them and say ‘Let’s do this,’” said Mr. King, the pugnacious Long Island Republican who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee. “A lot of Republicans, when they get thrown off their game, Read More

Peter King Calls the Republicans a Bunch of Wimps

Peter King is worried that his fellow Republicans are turning into wimps.

“I find it frustrating sometimes with the Republicans—you want to shake them and say ‘Let’s do this,’” said Mr. King, the pugnacious Long Island Republican who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee. “A lot of Republicans, when they get thrown off their game, Read More

News to King

Pete King still contends that his son has never lobbied despite his inclusion in the state commission’s lobbying register as an “additional lobbyist” for Al D’Amato’s Park Strategies.

“I told you the other day he’s not a lobbyist, I still say he has never lobbied,” King just told me. “He had no idea he Read More

King v Mejias

The much-anticipated debate yesterday between Rep. Peter King of Long Island and his Democratic challenger Dave Mejias is online over here. Warning. It’s an hour long. But it’s also worth watching, at least for a couple of minutes, if you’re at all interested in this stuff.

Like the Times wrote today, most Republicans Read More

King v Mejias

The much-anticipated debate yesterday between Rep. Peter King of Long Island and his Democratic challenger Dave Mejias is online over here. Warning. It’s an hour long. But it’s also worth watching, if only for a couple of minutes (unless you live in the district).

Like Adam Nagourney and Jim Rutenburg noted today, Read More