The Daily Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
In case you missed the second item in today's column : Rep. Carolyn Maloney has quietly lined up the support of all 12 of her fellow House Democrats from New York City. Maloney announced the sweep on Facebook. Such a feat was heretofore impossible given the presence of the lone Republican in the delegation - former Rep. Vito Fossella. But his seat is currently in Democratic hands (for now). This comes...
New York Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
A novice Staten Island politician's past as an FBI mob buster is earning him comparisons to the young Rudy Giuliani -- and his candidacy for Vito Fossella's old congressional seat has caught the former mayor's eye. Michael Grimm, a decorated Marine...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
If you've donated to John Boehner's political action committee, the misnamed Freedom Project PAC , which spent $2,693,033 in 2008, and has already sucked up over a million dollars this year, let me be the first progressive to thank you for the donation. Although a significant amount of your donations was wasted-- in chunks above $10,000 each-- on political losers like Greg Davis (R-MS), Phil English...
2008 Democratic Convention Watch (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Think back to the race last year: sitting Congressman Vito Fossella gets drunk in DC, crosses the bridge into Virginia, blows a red light, blows twice the legal limit on a breathalyzer, gets hauled to jail, calls not his wife, not his chief of staff who lives walking distance away, but his mistress, mother of his other child...there you are, you're laughing....H/T to Matt for sending over info on...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Staten Island Republicans are girding for a primary dogfight over the House seat they lost to Democrats when Vito Fossella chose not to run for re-election in a scandal over his secret second family. One candidate is environmental lawyer and ex-le...
The Daily Politics (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Rep. Mike McMahon may be under fire for his "no" vote on the health care reform bill, but he made at least one key constituency happy by joining his fellow Democratic House colleagues in rejecting the anti-abortion Stupak-Pitts amendment. At a City Hall rally yesterday, activists and labor leaders took McMahon to task for being one of just three New York Democrats to oppose HR 3962 and warned...
Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Yesterday, John Cornyn declared that the Republican Party establishment is afraid of its base : "We will not spend money in a contested primary," Sen. John Cornyn, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, told ABC News in a telephone interview today. "There's no incentive for us to weigh in," said Cornyn, R-Texas. "We have to look at our resources.... We're...
Mouth of the Potomac (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Retired Pakistani Army Gen. Pervez Musharraf remains a controversial and polarizing figure on the world stage since his fall from power as the country’s leader. But that didn’t discourage top Staten Island politicos from attending a recent dinner in his honor, where Musharraf was the featured speaker. Musharraf came to power in 2001 after a coup and reigned supreme as a virtual dictator...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Disgraced former Staten Island congressman Vito Fossella has been popping up recently at events that politicians typically attend, like a 9/11 event and a parade for the borough's Little League team, raising eyebrows among political watchers. Eyebrows! This past Friday he also made an appearance at a health-care forum, where he told the 100-person audience, "You don't level the house to fix what's...
Political Wire (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Scandal-scarred former Rep. Vito Fossella (R-NY) "popped up at a health-care forum over the weekend -- prompting speculation that the Staten Island Republican is eyeing a political comeback," the New York Post reports. Fossella's career plunged "after a drunken-driving arrest led to revelations that he'd fathered a love child."
New York Post (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Former U.S. Rep. Vito Fossella spoke at a weekend health care forum, fueling speculation that he could return to politics. It was one of Fossella’s first political appearances since he left office last year. He left after being arrested on drunken dr...
VoIP (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Bell is cut off as originator of the phone U.S. Congress gives honour to Italian immigrant BRANTFORD, Ont. - Stunned officials have been burning up the phone lines after learning that the U.S. Congress has ousted Alexander Graham Bell - the pride of Brantford - as the father of modern mass communications. Bell has long been recognized as the inventor of the telephone, the concept for which he developed...
the albany project (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
Conclusive proof that God just doesn't love me enough. The news I have been dreading for months has finally arrived: wingnut goon Peter "Baghdad is just like Manhattan" King, the man who once compared disgraced "family values" congressman Vito Fossella to LBJ, JFK and Thomas Jefferson , the man who recently asked "Who cares about health care?", adding "This is not...
The Daily Politics (Free subscription) | 07/22/2009
Former Rep. Vito Fossella granted an interview yesterday to his onetime congressional colleague, Joe Scarborough, making what I believe were his first in-depth and unscripted public remarks about the DWI / out-of-wedlock child scandals that forced him from office and his life after politics. During the interview, which aired at the tail end of Scarborough's radio show on 77WABC , Fossella was asked...
BooMan Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/20/2009
People think of New York City as Democratic juggernaut, despite the fact that the city hasn't had a Democratic mayor since 1993, Bill Clinton's first year in office. It's true that the Democrats control all of the cities seats in the House of Representatives, but that only became true this year when city councilman Mike McMahon won the Staten Island seat in the aftermath of revelations that the incumbent,...
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