The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee likes what it sees when it comes to at least two House campaigns in New York, targeting the candidacies of Julian Schreibman in the NY-19 and Leslie Danks Burke in the NY-23. Schreibman, running in the ne... »
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, said he will ask the Democratic conference if they want newly elected Buffalo Assemblyman Mickey Kearns to sit with them. Kearns met this morning with Silver, and Kearns said he asked Silver for entry into ... »
Assemblyman George Latimer, a Rye Democrat who launched a bid for the state Senate earlier this week, has no interest in joining the upper chamber’s breakaway Democratic caucus, he said in a phone interview this week. Latimer, who’s looking to succeed ... »
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has had a busy day of robocalls. As Liz blogged earlier this morning, the governor cut a robocall for Democratic hopeful Chris Fahey, an aide to Rep. Brian Higgins who is running in the 145th AD. Now he’s also got a call out for Democ... »
ALBANY – Just hours after a federal judge released her own ideas for how New York’s 27 congressional districts should be shaped, the Legislature’s top Democrat was sounding hopeful for a legislative solution to avoid the need for a judicial imprint. Li... »
Pushing a Wednesday deadline to its limits, the majority parties in the Senate and Assembly filed their preferred congressional maps with a federal court in Brooklyn last night, showing significant differences of opinion across upstate and in Queens. A... »
Sen. Martin Malave Dilan, D-Brooklyn, is among plaintiffs this morning who are filing a lawsuit against Senate Republicans for creating a 63rd Senate seat during the redistricting process this year. The lawsuit is to be filed today in state Supreme Cou... »
