Jeff Alberici, an eight-grade teacher in New York, husband and father of three, delivers this week's Democratic Radio Address. Alberici discusses Democratic plans to tackle high energy and gas prices and the Republican efforts to block them without any solutions of their own.
John McCain is taking a ferry ride down the East River from New York City to Highland, New Jersey. Sounds like a great photo op, no? Turns out, McCain's tour will pass a series of landmarks he opposed funding for or even voted voted against.
Republicans are struggling to find candidates at the Congressional level this cycle and, in particular, coming up empty-handed in New York. From the New York Times this morning: Heading into this election cycle, Republican leaders in Washington identified dozens of...
Last month, news broke that the NRCC called the FBI on itself regarding some accounting irregularities that scared several House Republicans. In Thursday's New York Times, more details emerged as Christopher J. Ward, the former treasurer of the NRCC for...
Yesterday there were a couple special elections -- in New York and in Florida.
CNN reported late last night on massive Democratic turnout across the country. Some of these figures are based off of incomplete returns, like Arizona for instance, who broke the previous record by 80,000 with 67% percent in at the time....
CNN Senior Political Analyst Bill Schneider reported on the network's blog, Political Ticker, that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani helped deliver New York for Sen. John McCain. Our exit polls show the former New York City mayor's endorsement...
John McCain completed the tri-state trifecta, adding to his win in Connecticut with wins in New York and New Jersey.
Giuliani's New York canvassers are trolling Red Sox Nation in Yankees garb, in advance of the primary:
Photo-ops just aren't the same as rescue work.
A Republican congressman is so afraid of his constituents, he's thought about "packing" firearms.
Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani is all talk when it comes to fighting terrorism.
Giuliani myth meets Giuliani fact--this time around immigration.
Rudy rakes it in from "sin" industries.
Summary of state process
The New York Post reports on some of the stranger idiosyncrasies of Rudy's wife, Judith.
New Yorkers, like their firefighters, don't like Rudy Giuliani very much.
What's the truth about Rudy's leadership during times of crisis? A group of New York firefighters today slammed Giuliani's response to 9/11, saying that his record on fighting terror is "all a fallacy":
One day after the New York Times reported that smooth talking Mitt Romney is facing “a fund-raising drop-off for this quarter,” Romney brings his struggling campaign fundraising team back to New York City today. The situation has gotten so bad for Romney that he was forced to admit during his campaign’s latest splashy national call day event—an event that raised $5 million less than a similar event in the first quarter—that he will once again dip into his personal fortune to fund his campaign. In January, Romney said taking such a step "would be akin to a nightmare," a statement he made AFTER loaning himself $2.35 million in what he called “seed money.”
While Rudy Giuliani merrily celebrates his birthday with an "all-day, four-borough bash" in New York City today, he continues to withhold comment on new evidence that the dust from the destruction of the World Trade Center is definitively linked to a death. Giuliani has yet to express regret for not enforcing federal requirements that workers at Ground Zero wear respirators and, as a result, "more than 2,000 New York City firefighters have been treated for serious respiratory problems." [
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As Rudy Giuliani touts his leadership skills on the campaign trial, news reports today again call into question the judgment of "America's mayor" in the aftermath of 9/11. According to The New York Times, Giuliani did not enforce federal requirements that workers at Ground Zero wear respirators and, as a result, "more than 2,000 New York City firefighters have been treated for serious respiratory problems."
From the NY Daily News
Ken Bazinet on the New York connection to the Denver convention.
Yes, yes we can! Congressman-elect John Hall (NY-19) joins Stephen Colbert in an awesome rendition of the national anthem....
This week, in an effort to save their sinking political fortunes, key Republicans campaigned for their ethically-challenged colleagues across the country. This is just one more example of the GOP putting their party above the interests of America’s working families.
In attempt to revive his struggling re-election campaign after spending three days denying published reports that he abused his wife, embattled Republican Congressman John Sweeney will appear at a last-minute campaign event with Rudy Giuliani and Governor George Pataki. Local law enforcement officials confirmed this week that a 911 call was placed last December by Sweeney's wife and that local authorities responded to a domestic violence dispute at the couple's home. Democrats are calling on Giuliani and Pataki to cancel today’s campaign event until Sweeney answers outstanding questions about the incident and releases the entire police report, as he promised to do earlier this week.
Editorial boards across the country agree President Bush, at his press conference this week, failed to offer a new direction and instead stuck to his administration's failed strategy for Iraq. Tomorrow, it will be only a month until the war in Iraq is the same length as American involvement in World War II.
Today, the House Ethics Committee grilled embattled New York Republican Congressman and Chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee about his role in covering up the scandal involving Mark Foley’s sexually explicit communications with children.
As Republican candidates run in droves from Republican Congressman Tom Reynolds and the rest of the House Republican leaders who covered up the Mark Foley scandal, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove raised eyebrows by agreeing to step in for Republican Senator John McCain at two Buffalo fundraisers next Friday. It turns out this isn’t the first time Rove and Reynolds have worked together on the Mark Foley matter.
As more details emerge about the Mark Foley scandal, Republican politicians are running from the House Republican leaders who tried to cover it up. Today, the Buffalo News reports that Arizona Senator John McCain caved to pressure and canceled two Buffalo fundraisers with New York Republican Congressman Tom Reynolds. McCain's decision to cancel two of three events with Reynolds comes a day after Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Don Sherwood-himself embroiled in scandal after being accused of choking his mistress-canceled a fundraiser with Reynolds.
On Friday, October 20th, Senator John McCain is scheduled to campaign with NRCC Chairman Tom Reynolds, who is currently embroiled in the GOP cover-up of former Republican Congressman Mark Foley's sexually explicit messages that he sent to under-age House pages. Even after Reynolds was informed about Foley's transgressions, he encouraged Foley to run for a seventh term, gave $5,000 to Foley's campaign, and took $100,000 of Foley's campaign cash for the NRCC rather than investigating the matter further. Instead of campaigning with Reynolds later this month, McCain should cancel his fundraiser for Reynolds and call on Reynolds to tell the truth about his actions in this scandal.
As early as 2001, there were warnings about Republican Congressman Mark Foley's behavior. Foley's emails to underage pages should have raised a major red flag and the Republican leadership, including Rep. Reynolds, should have investigated immediately. But like numerous other Republican leaders, Reynolds failed to ask the tough questions, choosing instead to cover up the facts.
Despite a cloud of denials, deflections and finger-pointing, it is clear that key members of the Republican House leadership failed to take action to protect students in the Congressional page program, choosing instead to sit on their hands for as much as a year after learning that Republican Congressman Mark Foley had sent inappropriate emails to a minor. According to reports, Republican Speaker Dennis Hastert, House Majority Leader John Boehner and National Republican Congressional Campaign Chairman Tom Reynolds all knew about Foley's emails as early as last year and did nothing.
Yesterday, Florida Republican Congressman Mark Foley resigned from Congress when sexually inappropriate emails and instant messages he sent to a teenage boy came to light. While the shocking exchanges produced an immediate uproar that cost Congressman Foley his job, at least one member of the House Republican leadership had known about the situation for months and did nothing about it: New York Republican Congressman and chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee Tom Reynolds.
This year’s WLF Issue’s Conference is being dedicated to Governor Ann Richards, an extraordinary woman whose commitment to public service, and the people of Texas, was a big as her spirit. In a letter to WLF Conference participants, Governor Dean...
In New York's 19th Congressional District John Joseph Hall is set to take on his Republican opponent this fall as he handily won his primary contest last night. Thirty years ago — long before he set his sights on a...
Former New York Mayor and potential GOP Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani will be in Virginia and Maryland today stumping for Republican Senate candidates George Allen and Michael Steele.
Yesterday Fighting Democrats Eric Massa and Tim Walz spoke out in response to Donald Rumsfeld's criticism of those who would question him and the Republican Administration. Eric Massa: "After 21 months of trying to find something I can agree with...
One of two potential voting machines which could be implemented in New York in time for the November election, may affect voter turnout. The digital-recording electronic system (D.R.E.) has a higher rate of unrecorded votes, a problem officials say could...
The following resolution was passed by the Democratic National Committee at its meeting on August 19, 2006. Submitted by: Alice Germond, DNC Secretary/West Virginia Renee Gill Pratt, Louisiana Ben L. Jeffers, At-Large/Louisiana James K. Metcalfe, Chair, Alaska Resolution Honoring the...
With Vice President Cheney set to arrive in Utica this evening to headline a special interest fundraiser for State Senator and Republican Congressional Candidate Ray Meier, the Democratic National Committee issued the following "By the Numbers" fact sheet on the Vice President's visit to Upstate New York.
Congressman John Sweeney is at it again. According to testimony before the New York State Assembly yesterday, the scandal-plagued Republican Congressman completely ignored official House Ethics Committee guidance and invited his special interest friends to a lavish ski weekend for lobbyists and members of Congress last winter.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean today issued the following statement in response to the decision by the New York Court of Appeals that the state constitution does not guarantee the right to marriage for same-sex couples, but that the state legislature could provide this:
Today in New York: New York's highest court today turned back a broad attempt by gay and lesbian couples across the state to win the right to marry and raise children under New York State's marriage law, saying that denying...
Arizona Republican Senator John McCain tonight will headline a New York City fundraiser for his Straight Talk America PAC. Unfortunately, as McCain has laid the groundwork for a 2008 presidential run, his famous "Straight Talk Express" has morphed into the Double Talk Express. On issues ranging from the Bush tax cuts, to the use of ethanol, to a Constitutional Amendment on marriage, to abortion, Senator McCain has flipped his positions on issue after issue in an effort to pander to the extreme right wing of the Republican Party.
As a present on the first day of Hurricane Season, Republicans have cut in half grants for security and disaster preparedness in the city of New Orleans. This comes as residents of New York City and Washington DC (myself included)...
I attended an immigration roundtable discussion yesterday morning with Governor Dean, Betsy Kim, Deputy Director of the American Majority Project, and three dozen leaders from the Asian American community. The immigration question is a challenge we face as a nation....
Today, editorial boards across the country came to the conclusion that President Bush's address last night and his immigration plan lack specifics.
The New York Times profiles Connecticut's 5th Congressional district and the damage to Northeastern Republicans by Bush's failures in office. In the battle for control of the House of Representatives, Democrats are concentrating their efforts on defeating a particularly resilient...
See pictures from events across the country and read what participants in the 50-State Canvass have to say in their own words.
Got a few stories from today. Send yours along with pictures to april29@dnc.org FL-5: Florida Congressional Candidate Rick Penberthy We organized one of the door to door canvass efforts today. We had loads of fun and hit over 600 homes...
President Bush's speech on energy policy and skyrocketing gas prices yesterday is already drawing criticism and scrutiny from editorial boards and political writers across the country.
America's newspaper editorial pages understand what the Bush Administration doesn't: that new faces at the White House won't do anything to reverse the President's sagging credibility unless the Administration also changes its discredited and failed policies.
Newspapers across America are weighing in on President Bush's efforts to bypass a mandatory 45-day review of the deal to let a foreign company manage six of the nation's largest ports, and the continuing vunerability of our nations ports.
The Democratic National Committee has accepted bids and sent out requests for full proposals to 11 cities vying to host the 2008 Democratic convention. The convention is scheduled for August 25-28, 2008.
Demanding more money for no reason? After failing in a three-year effort to hand over Amtrak's Washington-to-Boston tracks, and their costs, to a new federal-state consortium, the Bush administration is seeking tens of millions of dollars in extra fees from...
Actions speak louder than words, and even poorly produced RNC web videos. For all the rhetoric you hear from the other side about a party in dissaray, the fact remains that in state after state, Democrats are loading up the...
.... .... .... .... Does anyone have page 10 of my notes on this race?...
Quinnipiac. 12/7/2005 to 12/12/2005. 1,091 New York State Registered Voters. MoE +/- 3%. (Trend Lines). Spitzer (D): 62% (60) Daniels (R): 15% (15) Someone Else: 1% (2) Wouldn't Vote: 1% (1) Don't Know: 20% (22) Spitzer (D): 64% (60) Faso...
For weeks, Republicans in Congress have been pushing radical budget cuts to offset the cost of extending more than $60 billion in tax cuts for wealthy investors that are set to expire in 2008.
Republican crony Lester Crawford is at the center of the the Bush administration's politicization of emergency contraception.
If you were on the Chicago public transit system last Friday and you think you saw Howard Dean, chances are you did.
State and national Democratic committees on Monday demanded that two Western New York Republican congressmen return contributions they received from Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, who stepped down as House majority leader after being indicted on Texas election law violations.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean today issued the following statement on former Bronx Borough President Freddy Ferrer's victory in the Democratic mayoral primary in New York City.
From the New York Democratic Party: For those New Yorkers still wondering what was on the now famous missing page 10 of Jeanine Pirro's speech yesterday, New York Democrats are asking if perhaps it was the answers to some important details and questions that escaped Ms. Pirro...
Westchester County District Attorney and Republican Jeanine Pirro kicked off her campaign for Senate in New York yesterday. As she was giving her speech, she paused for 32 seconds while she stumbled to find a page - and said nothing. 32 seconds without a script and she can't say one word about her vision for New York? Some candidate...she can't even ad-lib why she's running or what she wants for the country.
John Aravosis points to NBC's First Read, which points out that the muddying of the waters between Iraq and September 11th is pure political strategy. Now raise your hand if you still think Karl Rove’s 9/11 remarks last week were...
From The Citizen (Auburn, NY):When Sally Johnston and fellow disability rights advocates faced too many stairs to readily access Onondaga County Legislature or Syracuse Common Council meetings, they held a disability awareness day - inviting county legislators and councilors to...
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