Eldridge Nets $311K (Updated)
Sean Eldridge, a Hudson Valley investor and political activist who is mulling a potential challenge next year to GOP Rep. Chris Gibson, has raised $311,215 over the past three months, according to a...
View ArticleMarist Poll: Weiner No. 2 In Democratic Mayoral Primary
In the first poll released since Anthony Weiner confirmed he is mulling a potential entry into the New York City mayor’s race, the former congressman demonstrates he could still be a contender – or, at...
View ArticleIsaacs to Golden: Shut Up, Or I’ll Sue
In the latest salvo in the ongoing intra-party battle between downstate GOP leaders that started in the wake of Sen. Malcolm Smith’s arrest, Manhattan Chairman Dan Isaacs is threatening to sue Sen....
View ArticleDepartment Of Questionable Timing?
I received an email on Saturday – one day after the successful capture of suspect No. 2 in the Boston Marathon bombing – from NYC Comptroller John Liu’s mayoral campaign with the subject line: “It’s a...
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Sen. Cruz To Headline State GOP Dinner
Sen. Ted Cruz, the controversy-courting, Tea Party-backed conservative from Texas who is starting to get mentioned as a potential 2016 contender even though he has only been in office since January,...
View ArticleScandal-Scarred Queens Councilman Won’t Seek Re-Election
Queens Councilman Dan Halloran, who has been charged with participating in Sen. Malcolm Smith’s scheme to bribe his way into the NYC mayors race, announced this afternoon that he won’t seek re-election...
View ArticleQuinn To Halloran: Consider Resigning
NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn doesn’t think scandal-scarred Councilman Dan Halloran’s decision not to seek re-election this fall goes far enough, and is urging the Queens Republican to consider...
View ArticleEt Tu, Shirley?
ICYMI, this was today’s morning memo: Et Tu, Shirley? Since the revelation that former Bronx Assemblyman Nelson Castro had been working as a double agent for federal prosecutors for almost the entire...
View ArticleLatimer: Sampson & Smith Should Resign, Or Face Expulsion
ICYMI: Sen. George Latimer told me during a CapTon interview last night that his two Democratic colleagues most recently charged with wrongdoing – Sens. Malcolm Smith and John Sampson – should either...
View ArticleCuomo Now Has No ‘Official Position’ On NYC Mayor’s Race
During his Tax-Free NY announcement at SUNY New Paltz earlier today, Gov. Andrew Cuomo was asked to expand on his remarks to the Syracuse Post-Standard editorial board that if New Yorkers elect former...
View ArticleAlbany Scandal Touches Manhattan BP Race
One of the high-profile public corruption scandals to rock Albany this spring has bled into the race for Manhattan borough president. A report filed with the NYC Campaign Finance Board reveals the...
View ArticleWhen Worlds Collide
Reuters had one of those six degrees of separation-type stories yesterday involving the New York political world that was worth noting. The wire service reported that Ellen Davis, the top public...
View ArticleDean For De Blasio
As the Democratic NYC mayoral candidates fight to claim the “progressive” mantle heading into the September primary, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has received the seal of approval from a well-known...
View ArticleEdie Windsor On Quinn: ‘She’ll Be Great!’
NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s mayoral campaign wasted no time in capitalizing on the Democratic candidate’s surprise endorsement yesterday from Edie Windsor, the plaintiff in the DOMA case that...
View ArticleStringer Raises Off Spitzer Without Mentioning Him
Manhattan BP Scott Stringer, whose all-but-sure-thing run for NYC comptroller has been threatened by Eliot Spitzer’s sudden appearance on the scene, has deployed countless surrogates to slam the former...
View ArticleGillibrand Punts On Weiner, Spitzer
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has been an outspoken advocate and defender of women, recently making headlines in her quest to crack down on sexual assault in the military. But the junior senator was not...
View ArticleStringer To Spitzer On Tax Returns: ‘Game On’
You knew this was coming… Manhattan BP Scott Stringer is employing that age old political trick of using your opponent’s words against him, reminding his NYC comptroller Democratic primary challenger,...
View ArticleCourt Of Appeals Will Hear Haggerty Case (Updated)
Thanks to New York’s chief judge, Jonathan Lippman, the state’s highest court will hear the appeal of a veteran GOP consultant convicted of stealing $750,000 worth of Mayor Bloomberg’s money...
View ArticleThe Investment Question
When Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer launched the initial salvo in his realease-your-tax-returns war with his NYC comptroller primary opponent, Eliot Spitzer, he did so by putting out five...
View ArticleDCCC Targets Reed, Grimm On ‘Gridlock’ (Updated)
The 113th Congress is en route to becoming one of the least productive in modern history, and the DCCC is blaming the House Republicans for the gridlock that has been plaguing D.C., singling out two...
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