ALBANY—A handful of State Senate Republicans may be preparing to budge on plans to bail out the M.T.A., which are currently stalled in the Democratic-controlled body.
State Senator Betty Little, whose district includes the northern counties of the Adirondacks, said she could go along with something if money is also provided for surface Read More
ALBANY—At least one Democratic state senator is still hopeful about reaching a consensus with the wayward Gang of Three, even as a report claims State Senator Malcolm Smith is looking beyond the three to cobble together a 32-vote majority.
Smith announced last week that he was suspending negotiations with the trio after earlier Read More
ALBANY—Now that Malcolm Smith has forging a united Democratic majority under his leadership, look for the party to redouble its efforts to recruit defectors from the Republican side.
State Senator Joe Robach – who used to be a Democrat - could be a target, as well as State Senator Jim Alesi, who Read More
ALBANY—David Paterson took to the road this weekend, appearing at a double-barreled rally for Joe Mesi—who's vying to fill the State Senate seat being vacated by Republican Mary Lou Rath—and State Senator Bill Stachowski, who, according to Siena, is back to leading challenger Dennis Delano.
The appearances stand in contrast to a Read More
A Rochester-based reader emails this photo of a lawn sign for Republican State Senator Joe Robach's campaign, outside his legislative office.
The reader, a Demomcratic operative, expressed dismay that campaigning was taking place so close to Robach's legislative office, which, since it's a public office, is supposed to be free from that sort of Read More
[img_assist|nid=88|title=Robach.|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=200|height=290]1199 SEIU – a major union working to help elect Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama – is keeping its commitment to helping Republicans maintain control of the State Senate, announcing the endorsement of Joe Robach for re-election in Rochester.
“As we face a very serious fiscal crisis in the capital, we need effective Read More
Democratic State Senate candidate Rick Dollinger held a massive Get Out the Vote drive this weekend at his campaign headquarters, where more than one speaker either invoked Barack Obama or touched upon his message of going beyond partisan politics.
The first speaker, Rochester City Councilman Adam McFadden equated the need to elect Read More
Democratic State Senate candidate Rick Dollinger is out with a new ad that borrows heavily from the soaring music and nostalgic feel-good themes of the ads for Eliot Spitzer’s 2006 gubernatorial bid.
“Albany won’t work until it remembers who it’s working for,” the announcer says in the Dollinger ad.
Dollinger is running for Read More
Democratic State Senator Darrel Aubertine, who recently won his seat in a special election, is now running for re-election in a heavily Republican, way-upstate district (the 48th).
His new ad shows Aubertine farming, has the tag line "He’s still one of us," and doesn’t mention what party he belongs to–the sort of tactic more Read More
Here’s a mailing from upstate Republican State Senator Joe Robach, which, as The Albany Project notes, uses rainbow umbrellas and two men hugging to send a not-so-covert signal about the senator’s attitudes towards gay rights.
Which, the Web site argues, may not go far enough for some in the community.
