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Storobin: Senate GOP Investing ‘Tremendous’ Resources in Election
David Storobin (Photo: Facebook) Republican David Storobin might see his Democratic opponent, Councilman Lew Fidler, directly outraising him in the race to replace former State Senator Carl Kruger, but...
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Storobin Says He Will Move Into New Orthodox District If Need Be
The new Orthodox Jewish state senate district The Senate Republicans may have drawn their own special election candidate David Storobin out of the district he’s running in, but Mr. Storobin says he’ll...
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Storobin: NYT Claim That He’s ‘Overhwhelming Favorite’ to Lose Is ‘Lazy...
David Storobin (Photo: Facebook) At a Brooklyn Young Republicans Club meeting yesterday afternoon, David Storobin, the Republican candidate in the special election to replace Carl Kruger in the State...
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Storobin Says Fidler Is ‘Unfit to Serve’ In ‘Out of Hand’ Press Conference...
David Storobin stood before a banner reading "Character Counts." At a chilly press conference in southern Brooklyn this afternoon, the Republican candidate in the special election to replace former...
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Diaz Sr.: Investigate Mark Grisanti Like You Did Hiram Monserrate
Ruben Diaz Sr. (Photo: nysenate.gov) Earlier this morning, the outspoken State Senator Ruben Diaz Sr. called on Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos to investigate Buffalo State Senator Mark Grisanti,...
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Lew Fidler Mails On Yeshivas
Councilman Lew Fidler, the Democratic candidate in the special election to replace former State Senator Carl Kruger, is sending out direct mail advocating a heavy increase in state funding to Jewish...
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Pat Maher to Run for Nassau State Senate Seat
Pat Maher (Photo: Facebook) Pat Maher, a former Democratic Congressional candidate whose 2010 biography described her as “the Director of Development and Community Relations for a not-for-profit health...
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School Vouchers Emerge As Key Issue in Brooklyn Special Election
Lew Fidler's campaign mail highlights his plan for Jewish private schools. In a special election competition that had been increasingly marred with negative personal attacks between the two candidates,...
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National Organization for Marriage Enters Brooklyn State Senate Race
(Photo: Wikimedia) The National Organization for Marriage has taken its anti-gay marriage efforts down to a local level, purchasing advertisements in the special election to replace former State...
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Progress in Albany
Ordinarily a Republican victory in a heavily Democratic State Senate district would be seen as a blow to a Democratic governor. It only makes sense, right? Wrong. After all, these are not ordinary...
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Four Men in a Room: How the Independent Democratic Conference Did New Yorkers...
Jeffrey D. Klein (Getty) The millennium arrived sometime during the day of December 4, when New York State Senator Jeffrey D. Klein led his spanking new Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) over to...
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Shirley Huntley’s Convicted Relative Vouches for Her Good Character
Shirley Huntley (Photo: Wikimedia) When Lynn Smith, the niece of ex-State Sen. Shirley Huntley, wrote to a federal judge in February to beg for leniency for her indicted aunt, she neglected to mention...
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Pretty Interesting: Legislators Rally for Catwalk Kiddies
(Getty) The notion of exploitation in the modeling industry has become so familiar that it is a part of our cultural consciousness. Stories of teenage girls uncomfortably assuming prurient poses for...
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Party Poopers to Make Poking a Cop Illegal in New York
Don’t touch these guys. Seriously. (Getty) Great news (not really). Today the New York Senate passed a bill that makes “annoying” a police officer a felony—punishable by up to four years in prison....
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Daniel Squadron Quotes Kanye West’s ‘Gold Digger’ on Senate Floor
Rihanna and Kanye West perform. (Photo: Robyn Beck/Getty) State Senator Daniel Squadron drinks a Boost for breakfast, an Ensure for dessert. Somebody ordered pancakes, he just sips the sizzurp. And...
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Andrea Stewart-Cousins: The Would-Be Senate Majority Leader
Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins. (Photo: Aaron Adler/For New York Observer) In January 2013, just a month into Westchester State Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins’ tenure as the first...
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For Mayor Bill de Blasio, a ‘Year One’ With a Tragic Ending
A look at New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's first year in office.
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State Senators Look to Introduce ‘Death With Dignity’ Legislation This Month
After Brittany Maynard made headlines when she moved to Oregon so she could end her life under a doctor’s care, two State Senators are hoping to bring a similar law to New York.
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Death With Dignity Legislation Inspired by Brittany Maynard Introduced in Albany
Legislation to give terminally ill New Yorkers the choice to end their life under a doctor's care has been introduced in Albany.
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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand: My Grandmother Taught Me Politics
We need more women serving in the Senate, just as we need more women in city halls and governor’s mansions.
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