Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, a nationally recognized gun control activist who once considered running for Senate against Kirsten Gillibarnd, will join the incumbent at an event tomorrow calling for stricter gun control laws, according to Gillibrand’s office.
Gillibrand had come under criticism over her conservative positions on gun control while in the House, but Read More
ALBANY—Representative Jerry Nadler, the “progressive champion” whose district spans the West Side and Brooklyn, endorsed Kirsten Gillibrand’s election bid.
“From protecting a woman’s right to choose and standing up for issues of pressing concern to the LGBT community, to fighting for a robust public health insurance option and protecting our environment by working to reduce Read More
One reason that Steve Israel, Carolyn Maloney, Jerry Nadler and every other New York Democrat who yearns to serve in the U.S. Senate someday may be particularly thankful next Thursday: Rudy Giuliani and his apparent readiness to challenge Kirsten Gillibrand next year.
Not that they’ll say it out loud, of course. Assuming Giuliani does jump Read More
After the Democratic Party’s unity rally for Bill Thompson on Sunday, the campaign sent out a list of supporters that included a name I hadn’t seen on there before: Tom Duane.
Duane, the state senator from Chelsea, didn’t attend the event, but has officially come out in support of Thompson, a fellow Democrat.
Duane was Read More
Here’s Jerry Nadler at an endorsement event for Bill Thompson on the West Side on Sunday, criticizing Michael Bloomberg for his “5 minute economic plan. There’s been no economic plan.”
When asked to explain, Nadler said the only thing Bloomberg has put out is a “compendium of everything the different agencies of have done, but Read More
Bill de Blasio scored a coup this weekend, winning the endorsement of The New York Times for public advocate over Mark Green, who The Times endorsed for mayor in 2001 and attorney general in 2006.
Hours after the endorsement came out on Saturday, de Blasio’s campaign put out a robocall featuring Jerry Nadler, Read More
Last weekend, the Obama administration seemed ready to give up on the public option, sending all sorts of signals that the president would sign a health care reform bill with a co-op provision, if that’s what it would take to get a package through the Senate.
But now a key Congressional backer Read More
Last night, Representative Jerry Nadler held an hour-long telephone town hall meeting about health care.
It lacked the unexpected drama of some town hall events held elsewhere, being a phone event, but it did make clear that Nadler is unhappy with a concessions made to Blue Dog Democrats on health care, and that he Read More
Here’s a robocall Representative Jerry Nadler is putting out to tell his constituents about a “live telephone town hall” meeting about health care he’s hosting tonight at 7:10 p.m.
A reader who got it last night forwarded it to me.
“I want to let you know the latest in the health care debate in Read More
Here’s a bit more on Representative Jerry Nadler’s endorsement of Richard Aborn.
Nadler argues that Aborn has “raised the necessary resources to win the race” despite entering late, and notes that the Working Families Party is helping to run his field operation. The W.F.P.’s help will give Aborn “an unparalleled” get-out-the-vote operation, says Nadler. Read More
