To the list of business executives who pine for the glories of elective office, add the name of 63-year-old David Cornstein, a jewelry magnate and chairman of New York City’s Off Track Betting Corporation who has spared no expense in his preparations to run for State Comptroller next year. A man of immense wealth and Read More
On a recent early-spring evening in Albany, as the sun set
in a flare of orange through a clear blue sky over the State Capitol, a
honey-blond lobbyist made her way up Washington Street toward the University
Club for a fund-raiser honoring the newest star of New York’s Republican Party,
U.S. Representative John Sweeney. She Read More
In a bitterly fought primary that the state Republican Party had tried to avoid, Texas Governor George W. Bush captured the lion’s share of delegates in the New York primary on March 7, besting insurgent Arizona Senator John McCain and his band of insurgents.
At press time, Mr. Bush had captured 68 of the 100 Read More
