The Working Families Party Campaign Web

Edward-Isaac Dovere’s lengthy piece on the Working Families Party and their company, Data and Field Services–and how it may be violating city campaign finance rules barring coordination between campaigns and political parties–boils down to the W.F.P.’s inability to provide paperwork detailing the specific work people are getting paid for.

(Jerry Read More

Goldfeder Goes Ivy League

ALBANY—Omnipresent election lawyer Jerry Goldfeder, who left Andrew Cuomo's office last summer to join the law firm Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, will be teaching this spring at the University of Pennsylvania law school, the firm announced.

Goldfeder has previously taught at Fordham Law School. He will commute to Philadelphia one day a week Read More

Goldfeder for Senate

Here’s a blast from the past of Jerry Goldfeder, the election lawyer just hired by Andrew Cuomo’s office as a special counsel on public integrity, who once aspired to go to Albany in a different capacity.

More of his nine-year-old campaign lit is here.

– Azi Paybarah

Who is Buddy Fletcher?

When the name of Alphonse “Buddy” Fletcher unexpectedly surfaced last week on the list of candidates for comptroller, it caused a ripple, with one lawmaker telling me he “will be hard to say no to.”

He’s a Harvard-educated, black millionaire philanthropist with plenty of financial experience. Just the sort of outside financial expert Read More