Blakeman’s campaign finance messNew!!
MO’ MONEY: Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman has received dozens of contributions surpassing the legal limit in recent months.
Blakeman has yet to refund roughly $360,000 to donors who have given to him above the cap, as POLITICO first...
The NY governor race pollster scrum
Q THE LANDSLIDE: Quinnipiac University released a poll today that found Gov. Kathy Hochul leading Republican Bruce Blakeman 58-39 — putting her on track for the fourth-largest landslide by a New York gubernatorial candidate in the past 200 years.
It’s...
Jay Jacobs gets his first-ever challenger for state Dem chair
JACOB’S LADDER: Otsego County Democratic Chair Caitlin Ogden is launching a bid for the top spot in the state party — the first time its current chair, Jay Jacobs, has had a challenger during his lengthy tenure.
Jacobs, who also serves as Nassau Count...
Albany Democrats poised for biggest leadership shake-up in years
MAJOR SHIFT: Last week’s conclusion of Albany’s legislative session left Democratic state lawmakers poised for the biggest shakeup in their ranks since they assumed one-party control in 2019.
Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes is retiring...
Democrats seek more control over referenda in New York
THE EMPIRE STATE STRIKES BACK: New York Democrats are moving full bore ahead with their plans to join the nationwide redistricting war.
And their efforts are more expansive than their constitutional amendment to allow mid-decade changes to congression...
Bruce Blakeman’s solar phase
DAYS THE BUDGET IS LATE: 44
TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN: Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman has made questioning the state’s commitment to green energy a key plank of his gubernatorial platform.
Not so long ago, he had an entirely different focus. B...
NY Dems are primed to pull redistricting punches
DAYS THE BUDGET IS LATE: 38
VOTING RIGHTS DILEMMA: With Democrats’ national redistricting calculus now in disarray over today’s court order blocking new Virginia maps, party leaders are looking to New York as a prime opportunity to keep pace with Repu...
Bruce Blakeman’s Kafkaesque Albany sojourn
Gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman’s battle to access the state’s new public campaign finance program made its way to an Albany County courthouse.
Hochul promotes her agenda with state-funded ad campaign
HOCHUL’S AD CAMPAIGN: Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office is using taxpayer money to fund an advertising blitz promoting her agenda, brushing up against a ban on governors appearing in promotional material.
State law prohibits elected officials from appearing ...