In advance of Rudy Giuliani’s speech on Monday to Republican on Staten Island, some internal drama is surfacing.
City Councilman Jimmy Oddo, who had to break a sweat in his re-election earlier this month, sends the clearest signals that he’s unhappy with the Republican chairman in that borough, John Friscia.
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Here’s something I noticed while on Staten Island yesterday: front-page newspaper advertising. Above the fold! Where it slightly obscures the headline.
The stickers are for Vinny Ignizio and Jimmy Oddo, Republican city councilmen on Staten Island facing not entirely ignorable Democratic opposition today. Oddo’s mid-island district is more of a swing district (there are Read More
The City Council just held a moment of silence for Michael Jackson.
Apparently in protest, several council members quietly walked out of the room just before it began.
Republicans Jimmy Oddo and Eric Ulrich, along with Democrats Peter Vallone Jr. and Lew Fidler all left the Council chambers just before Inez Dickens and Helen Diane Read More
City Councilman Jimmy Oddo, Republican, is wearing a tie today that’s as colorful as he is. That is all.
Here, in the video below, is departing Republican Representative Vito Fossella chatting with reporters after his big thank-you breakfast on Staten Island yesterday.
The event generated speculation that Fossella may seek to run for office again in the future, and demonstrated that yes, he’s still popular with in his district. Local Read More
City Councilman Lew Fidler said the Ravitch plan to tax businesses one third of one percent in order to help fund the M.T.A. sounds familiar.
Fidler said it was part of the traffic plan he proposed months ago as an alternative to congestion pricing.
"If they had done that when Read More
The death of Frank Powers means Republicans on Staten Island are, again, looking for someone to run for Vito Fossella’s seat.
So, who’s on the list?
Scratch off District Attorney Dan Donovan, whose spokesman said he hasn’t changed his mind from last month about not running for the seat. Also not interested in Read More
One local Republican isn’t worrying too much about John McCain’s oratory skills, despite wide-ranging criticism of the nominee’s speech last Tuesday, especially compared to Barack Obama’s speech.
“I think Obama’s strength is giving the, in front of the teleprompter, soaring rhetoric,” said Republican City Councilman Jimmy Oddo, echoing the conventional wisdom about which Read More
Republicans are having some trouble finding a candidate to run for the Congressional seat Vito Fossella is planning to vacate at the end of the year.
Could they find a solution by turning to … Fossella?
A couple of political consultants I talked to think the idea is at least theoretically plausible. He has, Read More
