One Night, One Hotel, Two Fund-Raisers
ALBANY—Donors can do a twofer next week. The New York AFL-CIO is hosting its annual labor dinner at the Sheraton Towers hotel next Thursday evening, the same night Andrew Cuomo is holding a birthday...
View ArticlePaterson Says Spitzer Might Work As Comptroller
ALBANY—David Paterson said that Eliot Spitzer would have the skill set to be a good comptroller, should he run. "I think that would be pretty interesting," Paterson told John Gambling on WOR, when...
View ArticleAfter Bruno Verdict, Cuomo Again Asks for More Power to Police Albany
ALBANY—Andrew Cuomo has a proposal to tighten up ethics enforcement in the wake of the conviction of former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno: just let him do it. "You can go create another bureaucracy,...
View ArticlePoll: Paterson Inches Up
ALBANY—David Paterson's popularity is inching upward, but 65 percent of voters surveyed in a new Siena poll would vote for "someone else" in the 2010 election as opposed to 19 percent for Paterson....
View ArticlePolls: Gillibrand Loses to Thompson, Giuliani
ALBANY—Two polls released today attempt to parse Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's political standing, and offer somewhat different findings with the same basic message: she's not that strong. The first...
View ArticleMorelle and Duffy Fete Cuomo
ALBANY—He has a major event planned Thursday, but Andrew Cuomo will be in Rochester tonight where Mayor Robert Duffy and Assemblyman Joe Morelle, the Monroe County Democratic chairman, are holding a...
View ArticlePaterson’s ‘Modest’ Thank You for County Chairs
After raging against education groups who had sued him, David Paterson hosted a "modest" holiday reception in Albany last night for county chairs and members of the Democratic State Committee. The...
View ArticleLots of Electeds At Cuomo’s Fund-Raiser
There were 1,000 people in attendance at Andrew Cuomo's birthday fund-raiser last night--even David Paterson, a prospective political adversary, dropped in--mingling with the attorney general and...
View ArticleThe Battle of Rochester
David Paterson's Rochester friends are pretty similar to Andrew Cuomo's Rochester friends. I got a hold of this invitation for a fund-raiser on January 12, hosted by Mayor Robert Duffy and Assemblyman...
View ArticleSilver Says Andrew Cuomo ‘Thinks It’s His Opportunity’ to Run For Governor
ALBANY—Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver thinks Andrew Cuomo is going to run for governor. "I do," Silver told Fred Dicker on WGDJ. "I think he's clearly showed he's popular and has always wanted to be...
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