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The Daily Politics (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Bill Thompson's boosters have suggested he earned the right to run for statewide office if he so chooses because his closer-than-expected challenge to Mayor Bloomberg might have gone the other way had he enjoyed more enthusiastic Democratic support. State Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs isn't buying it. "Politics doesn't work that way," Jacobs told me during a wide-ranging...
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The Daily Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
... $50,000 through the Nassau County Democratic Committee (he's closely allied with the chairman, Jay Jacobs, who also heads the state Democratic Party), which also did his radio ads; about $76,000 on mail. Suozzi also sent another $40,000 to the county party for lit. The outgoing county executive has no campaign debt. Suozzi has said he is interested in staying in public life and hasn't ruled...
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the albany project (Free subscription) | yesterday
... financial or elected official support at this point," Bing said. State Democratic chairman Jay Jacobs noted that Gillibrand's fund-raising head-start, and her prowess at that essential political skill, bodes ill for any potential primary challenger. "I don't think that at the end of the day" taking Gillibrand on will be "an easy thing to do. People look at the poll numbers...
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NYDailyNews (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
When does the size of a war chest not matter? Apparently when you're a governor facing an uphill election. "The fact of the matter is, there's no single issue that decides any of this," insists Jay Jacobs, Gov. Paterson's hand-picked head of the state Democratic Party.
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Tuscaloosanews.com (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
By Tommy Deas Executive Sports Editor AUBURN | Rumors that have circulated on the Internet over the last couple of days that Auburn Athletics Director Jay Jacobs sent a request to the University of Alabama athletic department asking that the Million Dollar Band not play the "Rammer Jammer" cheer after the game if Alabama wins have been debunked.