Besides the influence of George Pataki, and the future of Bill Weld, another state Republican big shot who comes out limping from yesterday’s convention in Hempstead has to be Stephen J. Minarik III, the party leader who publicly and staunchly backed Weld and predicted that John faso would fail to break 16 percent. During a Read More
Could John Faso, in his wildest dreams, imagine that it would come to this?
Just a few months after the always-measured Stephen Minarik accused him of living in “la-la land” over his political strength, there was a satisfied-looking Faso on NY1 accusing Bill Weld of being the “desperate candidate” in the Republican primary.
Giving Read More
The Daily News reports that Stephen Minarik may quit later this year; and Tom Suozzi is going on the offensive against Joe Bruno and Sheldon Silver.
The Times rounds up Cory Booker’s win in Newark; and investigates the Clinton-Murdoch alliance.
AP’s Marc Humbert got Steve Minarik to raise the carpet-bagger issue again, in a conversation about Hillary’s plans to deliver a speech about job creation tonight in Chicago.
“She’s quite at home there,” Minarik said. “Do I need to say anything else? You can fill in all the rest, about how perhaps she can Read MoreWhat a strange place Reagan advisor Ed Rollins has occupied in this year’s Senate races.
Down in Florida, he trashed his candidate, Katherine Harris, and is now — no surprise — leaving that campaign.
Here in New York, Steve Minarik has decided that picking a fight with Rollins might be the last straw for Read More
One in five people who paid to sleep in the Clinton White House are paying to send Hillary back to the senate, The Post says.
Fred Dicker notes in his column that evangelicals won’t get in bed with KT’s senate run. Dicker also notes that State GOP Chairman Stephen Minarik will get behind Read More
Can this marriage be saved?
As all 62 Republican county chairmen get set to meet on Dec. 12, ostensibly to decide on a gubernatorial candidate, their party’s alliance with the state’s Conservatives—whose support has been critical to the G.O.P. since the 1970’s—is in jeopardy.
That’s because Governor George Pataki’s handpicked state chairman, Stephen Minarik, has Read More
On a summer evening in 1999, Republican stalwart and then–State Assembly Minority Leader John Faso broke with character: He let his hair down and sang.
Lifting his libretto from Man of La Mancha, Mr. Faso cast himself as Don Quixote and crooned a parody of “The Impossible Dream” at an annual dinner sponsored by the Read More
On a summer evening in 1999, Republican stalwart and then–State Assembly Minority Leader John Faso broke with character: He let his hair down and sang.
Lifting his libretto from Man of La Mancha, Mr. Faso cast himself as Don Quixote and crooned a parody of “The Impossible Dream” at an annual dinner sponsored by Read More
Can this marriage be saved?
As all 62 Republican county chairmen get set to meet on Dec. 12, ostensibly to decide on a gubernatorial candidate, their party’s alliance with the state’s Conservatives—whose support has been critical to the G.O.P. since the 1970’s—is in jeopardy.
That’s because Governor George Pataki’s handpicked state chairman, Stephen Minarik, Read More
