By Azi Paybarah 9/11/07 5:31pm

A Conservative Strategy on Marijuana

Advocates of legalizing medicinal marijuana in New York are now pinning their hopes on, of all people, conservatives.

Here's a pro-medicinal marijuana ad that appeared in a local Brooklyn paper this week, targeting Conservative-Republican state Senator Marty Golden, and featuring Joel Peacock, a member of the state’s Conservative Party.

The ad says that Peacock Read More

By Terry Golway 4/17/00 12:00am

Stupid Political Tricks Cost City $360 Million

What, do you suppose, is the most-expensive political campaign ever run in New York?

Ah, what memories such a question inspires! Remember the Charles Schumer-Alfonse D’Amato spendathon in 1998? What about the Mario Cuomo-George Pataki contest in 1994? How about the self-financed campaigns of Ronald Lauder and Lewis Lehrman, who spread millions around in their Read More