RESEARCH 2000 POLL HAS GILLIBRAND AHEAD OF FORD 41-27%…CUOMO BEATING PATERSON 63-19%…AG HAS 8 POINT LEAD OVER GOV AMONG AFRICAN-AMERICANS by Adama Brown (First published on our sister site: www.rochesterpolitics.com) A Research 2000 poll commissioned by Daily Kos shows incumbent Senator Kirsten Gillibrand beating presumed conservative primary challenger Harold Ford Jr. by a three to [...]
MAZIARZ ENDORSES KUDLOW FOR SENATE…CNBC HOST SAID TO BE “DEAD SERIOUS” ABOUT UNDERTAKING “NOBLE CAUSE” OF CHALLENGING SCHUMER Niagara County Republican State Senator George Maziarz has announced his support for CNBC host and yet-unannounced Senate candidate Larry Kudlow as the GOP nominee vs. two term Senatorial titan, Chuck Schmer, saying Kudlow “has the right message [...]
ANDREWS FUNDRAISER SRO, WITH REPUBLICANS AS WELL AS DEMOCRATS ATTENDING Lockport’s Taboo was the scene of a standing room only fundraiser for the Niagara County Treasurer campaign of Kyle Andrews last Thursday night. Among those on hand to wish Kyle well were County Democratic Chairman Dan Rivera, Sheriff Jim Voutour, and NC Independence Party Chairman [...]
JACOBS CALLS TRUCE BETWEEN GILLIBRAND AND FORD…”NOT PICKING A PROM QUEEN?” State Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs has publicly asked Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and her potential primary opponent, former Congressman Harold Ford Jr., to stop attacking one another. “I don’t like the name calling. I don’t think it’s helpful,” Jacobs said recently. “I don’t think [...]
Slaughter Praises President, Says It Should Be Easier For Middle Class Families WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (NY-28) today released the following statement following President Obama’s State of the Union : “The State of the Union touched on all the important points I wanted to see addressed. I go home every single weekend, and I [...]
COLLINS BOWS OUT OF GOVERNOR’S RACE…DENIES GAFFES ARE TO BLAME…”MY MESSAGE OF REFORM HAS NOT BEEN EMBRACED BY THOSE WHO ARE HAPPY WITH THE STATUS QUO”…WON’T BACK LAZIO by Adama Brown (First published on our sister site, www.rochesterpolitics.com) Erie County Executive Chris Collins has ended his exploratory run for Governor of New York, following a [...]
Unannounced Senate candidate Harold Ford writes NY Times op-ed advising corporate tax breaks as the solution to economic growth; Economist Krugman calls strategy “clueless”…Does this mean Ford is planning rightward line of attack vs. Gillibrand? by Adama Brown (First published on our sister site, www.rochesterpolitics.com) In his op-ed written for the New York Times, Ford, [...]
Slaughter Announces More Than $2.6 Million for Niagara County Head Start WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (NY-28) today announced that Niagara County ’s Head Start program will receive more than $2.6 million to provide early education and day care services for 3 and 4-year-olds in Niagara County . “Every child should step into Kindergarten ready [...]
PART III OF OUR EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW As first published on our sister site www.rochesterpolitics.com RochesterPolitics.com: In previous interviews with this reporter you spoke at some length about the excess number of lobbyists currently prowling Capitol Hill. Are you concerned about their effect on the health care bill? What can be done to curb their influence? [...]
SIENA ON CUOMO: “MOST POPULAR POLITICAL FIGURE”…ON GILLIBRAND…VOTERS GETTING TO KNOW HER We had an intereting talk recently with Siena College Institute Poll spokesperson Steve Greenburg, who had some important things to say about both Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. “Andrew Cuomo is clearly the most popular political figure in the [...]
