ALBANY—Assemblyman Jim Tedisco's Congressional campaign committee—which was just terminated after his failed bid against Scott Murphy this spring—failed to report more than $110,000 worth of contributions in its quarterly filing just before after the special election. The filings have since been amended.
Officials at the Federal Elections Commission sent two letters to Tedisco's Read More
ALBANY—Amid the chaos in the State Senate, Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb offers this to get headlines: calling on David Letterman to resign.
Kolb, in a letter to CBS head Les Moonves, decried off-color jokes Letterman made about Alaska Governor Sarah Palin on air, and specifically sexual innuendo about her 14-year-old daughter.
Letterman Read More
ALBANY—Here's a funny exchange between Jim Tedisco and Danny O'Donnell during last night's Assembly debate on same-sex marriage.
It starts with O'Donnell, the bill's sponsor, agreeing to yield to Tedisco, saying, "For the congressman, anything."
"I wish," Tedisco replied, referencing his recent loss to Scott Murphy in good humor. "Do you have 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
–compiled by Azi Paybarah and Jimmy Vielkind
ALBANY—Assemblyman Jim Tedisco said there is no one to blame but himself for losing a Congressional bid that, by general consensus, was very winnable for a Republican candidate against the all-but-unknown Democrat Scott Murphy.
"I think, any time you lose an election it's basically the candidate's fault," Tedisco told me in Read More
GLENS FALLS—During Scott Murphy's successful bid for Congress, David Paterson limited his efforts on behalf of his fellow Democrat to phone calls behind the scenes and fund-raising efforts. He did not appear publicly with the candidate until election night, when polls closed with Murphy ahead narrowly.
GLENS FALLS—Scott Murphy, a Democratic businessman from Glens Falls, will be sworn in as the next congressman in the 20th district, after Republican Assemblyman Jim Tedisco issued an official concession.
At a downtown intersection for his first public appearance since a special election March 31, Murphy walked to the corner towing his three children Read More
ALBANY—More than three weeks after the special election, Assemblyman Jim Tedisco is conceding his Congressional bid against Scott Murphy.
The announcement came via press release shortly after Tedisco called Murphy to concede. No press conference is immediately planned, from what I gather. In Tedisco's statement, he thanked his supporters but did not elaborate Read More
ALBANY—As overall vote tallies repeatedly skew toward Scott Murphy, the pressure is mounting on Assemblyman Jim Tedisco to concede defeat in the 20th Congressional District election, and people close to him say an official announcement could come as soon as this afternoon.
"It looks slim," said Saratoga County Republican Chair Jasper Nolan, in Read More
