ALBANY—Representative Eric Massa, in his first term representing the Finger Lakes and Southern Tier, refused again this morning to endorse Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, or to utter any approving comment about how she's conducted herself on the job thus far.
"I'm not even going to go there," Massa told reporters on his weekly conference call. Read More
ALBANY—The health care workers union SEIU 1199 spent over $500,000 to help Scott Murphy defeat Assemblyman Jim Tedisco in their race to replace Kirsten Gillibrand in Congress.
Federal campaign filings show the union invested more in independent expenditures than even the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee toward Murphy's victory, between their political action and Read More
ALBANY—The health care workers union SEIU 1199 spent over $500,000 to help Scott Murphy defeat Assemblyman Jim Tedisco in their race to replace Kirsten Gillibrand in Congress.
Federal campaign filings show the union invested more in independent expenditures than even the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee toward Murphy’s victory, between their political action and political Read More
ALBANY—A few weeks ago, an independent poll showed Scott Murphy within 12 points of Jim Tedisco in the race to succeed Kirsten Gillibrand in Congress.
I ended up breaking the news of that poll to Assembly Majority Leader Ron Canestrari, whose district borders Tedisco’s. His eyes widened.
“That’s going to turn some heads,” Read More
ALBANY—A few weeks ago, an independent poll showed Scott Murphy within 12 points of Jim Tedisco in the race to succeed Kirsten Gillibrand in Congress.
I ended up breaking the news of that poll to Assembly Majority Leader Ron Canestrari, whose district borders Tedisco's. His eyes widened.
"That's going to turn some heads," Read More
ALBANY—Scott Murphy is a rich carpetbagger, out-of-touch with the needs of the average voters in the 20th Congressional District he hopes to represent because he actually grew up in Missouri. He hasn't even voted in recent elections. He was a lobbyist, for Pete's sake, taking his clients to the Cotton Bowl and lavishing Read More
At a press conference on the City Hall steps just now, where the DCCC and some local officials endorsed Mike McMahon for Congress, a reporter asked the the question he was eventually going to get:
Have you ever driven drunk? Or had an extramarital affair?
McMahon is running for the seat currently held Read More
