Lindsay Lohan, Stephen Fiala

Days after it was discovered that $3.6 million was stolen from a government account under the watch of term-limited Comptroller Bill Thompson,
Independence Party activist Frank Morano — who has an interesting record of recruiting candidates — has sent out a letter urging Richmond County Clerk Stephen Fiala to run for comptroller on Read More

Phantom Members of the Independence Party

WARNING: If you find accounts of the perpetual feuding within the Independence Party to be boring and incomprehensible, do not read any further.

The state Independence Party organization has taken the unusual step of forming a three-member panel (sound familiar?) to investigate the party’s county organizations and see if their rosters contain phantom party members. Read More

Lindsay Lohan in '09

Here’s an unusual bid to spur the youth vote: a letter to Lindsay Lohan from gregarious local Independence Party activist Frank Morano, who holds a day job as a producer on the Curtis and Kuby radio show.

Morano, who is in his twenties, appeals to Lohan as a “role model” who should “seriously consider Read More

Staten Island's Special Election

The race to fill the Staten Island City Council seat being vacated by Andrew Lanza, who is going to the state Senate, is shrinking before it really grows.

Independence Party activist Frank Morano announced he will not be a candidate in next year’s special election for that seat, saying the ongoing court battle over control Read More

Independence Party and Term Limits

The state’s Independence Party has had enough distractions and internal fighting this year to make them look more like a circus and less like the New York’s largest minor party.

They might be hard to take seriously at all — if it weren’t for term limits. It’s an issue where their procedure-orientated agenda Read More