Staffing Up

Dovere to Politico

After five years at City Hall News, Edward-Isaac Dovere is leaving to take a job at Politico. His new title will be breaking news editor, a new position for the Washington-based outlet.

The president and CEO of the company that publishes City Hall News, Tom Allon, told me Dovere “joins a long line of Read More

Fundraising

How to Raise Money By Defending (or Attacking) the Media

DCCC Chairman, Rep. Steve Israel of Long Island, helps make National Public Radio a Democratic cause, with this fund-raising email a moment ago:

Now the Republicans want to control the news. In fact, House Republicans announced a vote for TOMORROW to cut all federal funding for National Public Radio.

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The GOP’s latest misguided priority Read More

Party's Over

Cuomo: No WFP … For Now

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo will not be accepting the Working Families Party nomination–or certainly not right now.

Cuomo adviser Phil Singer sent out a statement this afternoon saying that the campaign would not submit his name for the WFP convention this weekend on account of “several open issues that need to be considered,” adding that Read More

The Independence Party Tries a Buttoned-Down Appeal

It’s been two years since the chairman of the New York State Independence Party, Frank MacKay, cut his hair and removed his earrings. At the time, he was traveling around the country, trying to lay the groundwork for a potential presidential campaign, and he realized that he’d be taken more seriously if he looked less Read More