The anti-Spitzer PAC effort seems to be gathering momentum, with this report that Ken Langone and Tom Golisano met in Florida.
A Golisano advisor notes that Eliot’s decision to play hardball in a face-to-face meeting with the Rochester billionaire is not looking like such a good idea.
“I assumed at the time that he Read More
George W. Bush will be up in Rochester Tuesday, part of that prescription drug tour that hasn’t exactly succeeded in changing the subject from Iraq, Dubai, or anything else.
But New York State’s Republican candates, of course, are flocking to be seen with their President, right? Not so much.
“Bush who?” joked one Republican Read More
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Canandaiguans to ‘get to know’ Bush
(March 8, 2006) — President Bush is expected to make his second visit to the Rochester area in less than a year on Tuesday when his plans call for a trip to Canandaigua to discuss his new prescription drug benefit program.
Most Canandaigua residents are happy Read More
To help assuage the pains of Ben withdrawl some of you might be experiencing, here is a belated IMterview with state GOP spokesman Rob Ryan.
azipaybarah: how was your weekend?
Rmoses: good. we had a ball in Rochester that attracted over 3,000 people and netted the party over a million dollars
azipaybarah: who gets that Read More
The recent New Republic has a piece challenging the notion (subscription required) that Hillary’s Upstate success means she can succeed on a national level.
First, it argues that she didn’t really do all that well in 2000 Upstate, where Lazio narrowly beat her. Second, it argues that Upstate is more liberal than most of Read More
Mid-January is rolling in, and soon the world will know whether Rochester billionaire (and gubernatorial tease?) Tom Golisano will take on Eliot Spitzer. In recent reports, Golisano got a spousal nod and planned to toss money into the wind. But on the whole, the rumblings from Rochester have been pretty faint lately.
Perhaps Read More
The Rochester billionaire is, as his hometown paper points out, the GOP’s “X-factor.”
There’s a letter from Stepin Fetchit in the John Ford papers at the Lilly Library. It’s handwritten, articulate, dignified, very desperate. He’s not asking for a handout, he’s asking for a job. The letter dates from the early 1950’s, when the shiftless, shuffling part that Stepin Fetchit played had become not merely outmoded, but incendiary. Read More
There’s a letter from Stepin Fetchit in the John Ford papers at the Lilly Library. It’s handwritten, articulate, dignified, very desperate. He’s not asking for a handout, he’s asking for a job. The letter dates from the early 1950’s, when the shiftless, shuffling part that Stepin Fetchit played had become not merely outmoded, but incendiary. Read More
So Tom Golisano has officially gone Republican, as per a statement posted today on his website.
The Rochester billionaire name-drops John McCain, Joe Bruno, and Tom Reynolds as pols who lobbied him to cross over, and insists that a new ballot line won’t mean new principles. In short, he says he’s still committed to Read More
