Liz Benjamin at NY Daily News writes:
Cuomo’s approval rating has dropped from 67 percent in the last Marist poll to 54 percent. The AG’s numbers suffered a particularly big hit among non-white voters – a 22 percentage-point drop. He also lost ground in the city, dropping 17 percent.
Wow, that can’t be good.  Cuomo has all [...]

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This could be the smoking gun that drives Governor Paterson from office.  The New York Post reported over the weekend that Sherr-una Booker bought an expensive Lexus-SUV right before she dropped domestic violence charges against David Johnson, one of the Governor’s top aides.
Cuomo’s inquiry into the purchase of the $40,000 Lexus by Sherr-una Booker is [...]

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It looks like Governor David Paterson won’t be Governor for much longer.  Last week, his top aide, David Johnson, was the subject of a New York Times series outlining a number of misdeeds earlier in his life.  But the Times dropped a bombshell yesterday outlining a domestic violence incident involving Johnson that occurred on Halloween night [...]

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Previously a well-accepted fait accompli that New Yorkers would elect a Democrat Governor this year, here now are the options the left is presenting as their two top choices to lead this state.
A Democrat (Paterson) whose election campaign consists of playing the hapless victim, who daily switches between acting like a conservative AND a flaming liberal, blames [...]

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Would be Democrat gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo has raised quite a bit of money for his political campaign account.  While impressive, questions have arisen about the ethical nature of the contributionssince many of those contributors have come from law firms representing clients that were investigated or accused of wrongdoing by the AG’s Office according to [...]

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Friends, as I pointed out on Tuesday, Majority Leader Pedro Espada got his son, Pedro Espada Jr. hired as the Senate Deputy Director of Intergovernmental Affairs.  After officially taking his post on August 6th, Junior resigned early this morning…marking the one week anniversary of employment by the Senate Democrats.
The Albany Times Union has the scoop:
In [...]

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Friends, throughout this whole State Senate set of shenanigans, the Democratic/Liberal/Progressive/Elitist media and blogs have been conveying to people that the Bi-Partisan Coalition has been playing politics while the Democratic party, led by either Malcolm Smith or John Sampson, or someone else depending on whom you ask, is trying to govern.  The Governor’s recent actions [...]

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Our failing Governor David Paterson is going to announce today at 5:01 PM that he is going to break the law.
All day long speculations were rampant as to what Paterson was going to say at his requested 5:01 free media airtime.  Almost immediately, pundits, the press and state legislators became convinced it had to do [...]

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Fred Dicker of the New York Post is reporting that a number of African-American and Hispanic elected officals have had it with Governor Paterson and are poised to endorse Attorney General Andrew Cuomo for Governor.
From the Post:
PROMINENT African- American and His panic Democrats may soon endorse Attorney General Andrew Cuomo — and not incumbent Gov. [...]

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Friends, last week I posted on how Rick Lazio will be seeking to serve as New York’s next Governor.  However, in recent weeks, I have been hearing rumors from friends of mine who are in involved with the Democratic party at the state level that have begun to spread and gain more credence within Democratic/Liberal/Progressive/Socialist/Elitist [...]

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