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Biden Emails For Gillibrand

The Kirsten Gillibrand for Senate campaign sent out an email to supporters this morning from Vice-President Joe Biden urging them to donate to her campaign.

Writes Biden:  “Kirsten is ready to move America forward, but she needs your help to win in November. Will you help her today? You can make a difference! A crucial Read More

The Schumer Option: A Short-Term Winner

We still don’t know for sure what the final Senate health care plan will look like, but the most likely resolution to one of the stickiest issues has been obvious since early May. That’s when Chuck Schumer outlined his own compromise vision for an optional government-run insurance package. His proposal, a “level playing field” public Read More

The Anti-Gun Schumer Returns

In the minutes before the Senate barely voted down an amendment that would have allowed gun owners to carry concealed weapons across state lines, Chuck Schumer delivered an impassioned speech on the Senate floor urging his colleagues not to back the measure. “This amendment will incite a dangerous race to the bottom in our nation’s gun Read More

Blue Dog Math

“Fiscal conservative” is one of those terms used by politicians of all sorts to describe themselves, without any real justification. Parroted mindlessly from one news cycle to the next by major media outlets, that phrase is often used to mislead the public about the priorities and policies favored by those who claim to embody budgetary Read More

Kirsten Gillibrand vs. McNuggets

Kirsten Gillibrand has had it with McDonald’s.
“Have you been to McDonald’s and looked up on that wall and seen what a Big Mac is?” Gillibrand said, laughing, as she spoke on a conference call with reporters this afternoon to announce a new proposal to counter childhood obesity. “Have you looked at that lately?  Read More

Carolyn Maloney and Bill Clinton, Friends

Bill Clinton helped Carolyn Maloney get over her N-word incident by helping her raise money last night,  but he carefully avoided endorsing her in her prospective Senate primary bid against Kirsten Gillibrand.
That wasn’t surprising to several bundlers I spoke to who are loyal to the Clintons (and who now contribute to Gillibrand). One such bundler Read More

Massa Says Gillibrand Has Not Sought his Endorsement

ALBANY—Representative Eric Massa has still not endorsed Kirsten Gillibrand’s re-election, and insists she hasn’t brought it up.
“No, not at all,” he said during a conference call with reporters. “I speak to her almost weekly about matters of legislative business that we collaborate on for the benefit of the people in the district and Read More

Hold ‘Em Republicans

Asked on Sunday’s Meet the Press whether he believes there’s a need for Congress to pass some kind of health care reform, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell replied, “Oh, absolutely. I’m not in favor of doing nothing.”
Well, of course he’d say that. Voters have long ranked health care as one of their top Read More