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By Azi Paybarah 9/23/08 1:11pm

Bob Straniere and the Case of the Unsolicited Judgeship

I just spoke with former assemblyman Bob Straniere, the Staten Island Republican who is running for the Vito Fossella Congressional seat and, weirdly, was nominated to be a judge last night.

Straniere said, "I am running for Congress," and also, "I have no interest in being judge."

When I asked how Read More

By Azi Paybarah 9/03/08 5:10pm

State Senate Republican Message on the Tendencies of Democrats

Taxes.

By Chris Franz 8/06/01 12:00am

On Staten Island, a Nasty Little War

Staten Island’s once-verdant hills and wetlands soupy with the lusty fecundity of Nature are now covered with little boxes made of ticky-tacky, filled with over 400,000 people straight out of The Sopranos . It also happens to be home to one of the city’s most venomous (and unjustifiably unnoticed) political campaigns–the race for the island’s Read More

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Bob Straniere and the Case of the Unsolicited Judgeship

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On Staten Island, a Nasty Little War

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