There's a short-term gig available in the Erie County Legislature. Raymond W. Walter, an Amherst Republican, formally resigned his 4th District Legislature seat last week to head to Albany to represent the 148th Assembly District. Walter won the unexpired term of former Assemblyman James P. Hayes, who resigned in September to take a private-sector job.
Three months ago, in a column that carried the headline Confessions of a new Republican, I disclosed my friendship with Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele. This revelation was based on a Dear Friend letter I had received from Mike, who was asking me for money despite the fact we had never met. In these ensuing weeks, my buddy has fallen on rough times. He is on the verge of losing his job because of extravagant spending by RNC operatives and Steeles own habit of speaking coherently and without frothing at the mouth. Thats not his only problem. Because I specialize in shallow, fair-weather friendships, I hereby renounce my relationship with Mr. Steele. Besides, even as a new Republican, I dont need Mike anymore. Ive got John now.
In another year, Michael Freda, the Republican candidate for first selectman in North Haven, might have had our endorsement. Freda, a business executive, is an enthusiastic salesman for his town and its economic development. As a selectman, he has used his business ties to lure a major food distributor to the former Stop & Shop warehouse. As a member of the Board of Selectmen, he studied local flooding problems and had a culvert cleaned out behind Todd Drive to ease drainage problems there. Freda was appointed to the Board of Finance by former Republican First Selectman Kevin Kopetz and then was appointed to the Board of Selectmen to fill Kopetz's spot after Kopetz lost his 2007 bid to be re-elected first selectman. Janet M. McCarty was the first Democrat elected first selectman in 34 y...
Two state lawmakers and three Putnam County officials say Republican Sen. Clark Barnes' campaign for governor used their images on campaign mailings without their permission. As a result, some would-be voters have been left with the false impression these officials are backing Barnes for governor in the Republican primary, the officials said. Two are publicly backing another Republican, and three are keeping a publicly neutral profile.
A two-day canvassing completed yesterday indicates that Kenneth T. Cuccinelli III won re-election to the Virginia Senate on Tuesday against Democrat Janet Oleszek, officials with both campaigns said yesterday. Virginia State Board of Elections preliminary results indicate that Mr. Cuccinelli, a Republican, took 18,602 votes compared with 18,510 for Mrs. Oleszek.
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Analysis HARRISBURG -- In 2010, Pennsylvania residents can expect another tight state budget, more criminal corruption charges tied to the Legislature and, possibly, a repeat of the state's eight-year "cycle" that puts a different party into the governor's mansion.
REPUBLICAN gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner are mixing it up, and it's not pretty. Whitman and her surrogates at the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association are attacking Poizner for the political war crime of supporting Proposition 39 in 2000.
The national media is fascinated by the emergence of several prominent African-American Republican candidates this election season. There are black Republicans running for governor in Ohio and Pennsylvania. There's also a black Republican vying to become a U.S. senator from Maryland.
Alden Ronald Smith is not running for another term as town supervisor, setting up a battle for the key Republican line in Tuesday's primary.
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