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A lecturer at the State University of New York at New Paltz was caught on video stealing Republican yard signs in New York. Laura Ebert, who is an economics lecturer, has been charged with misdemeanor larceny for stealing signs endorsing Rep. John Faso (R., N.Y.) for Congress and Marc Molinaro, the GOP gubernatorial candidate in New York. Video shows Ebert pulling up to a woman's front yard, getting out, and putting the political signs in her pickup truck.

Antonio Delgado railed against capitalism, rapped about porn, masturbating The Democratic congressional candidate for New York's 19th district, Antonio Delgado, rhymed about watching porn, masturbating, and attacked capitalism in his past life as a "social justice" rapper. Delgado, who is challenging Rep. John Faso (R., N.Y.), released an album under the record label "CD Baby" in 2007. Delgado, whom the New York Times considers "much less progressive" than other Democratic House candidates like socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, once tried to pursue a rap career to advance "radical social change" in the United States.

The GOP tax reform bill known as the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” came one important step closer to becoming law on Tuesday when the bill passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 227 to 203. No Democrats voted for the bill, of course. The party of big, centralized government isn’t for anyone keep more of their own money, other than perhaps illegal aliens and welfare recipients, and will never vote to cut anybody’s taxes. But not all Republicans voted for the bill either. Here are the 12 Republicans — all from high tax states — who joined...

ALBANY - Attorney General Andrew Cuomo slapped a subpoena on ex-GOP gubernatorial candidate John Faso in his probe of a massive pay-to-play pension fund scandal, the Daily News has learned. ... The timing of the subpoenas raised some eyebrows by coming just a month after a political action committee co-founded by Faso released an ad attacking Cuomo. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/05/20/2010-05-20_exgov_candidate_faso_also_target_of_ag_investigation.html#ixzz0onNlaN00

New York, NY-March 15...A pointed television advertisement aimed squarely at New York State Attorney General - and gubernatorial hopeful - Andrew Cuomo (D-WFP) for his refusal to investigate credible allegations against a political party that could be helpful to his prospective candidacy for governor was released today by New Yorkers for Growth, a non-partisan political action committee dedicated to bringing responsible fiscal policies back to New York State government. The 30-second spot entitled "Prince Andrew" questions why the Attorney General has failed to look into allegations that New York's Working Families Party (WFP) has, among other things, illegally used non-profit...

New conservative candidates are emerging in New York House races ... updates are included in this thread. Perhaps the most exciting new conservative on the scene is Retired Army colonel Chris Gibson (R) in NY-20. (Recall that freshman Rep. Murphy was elected last spring in a tight special election over GOPer Jim Tedisco.) An Albany Times Union blog reports: "Retired Army colonel Chris Gibson of Kinderhook won an endorsement from the Clifton Park Republican Committee Thursday night. The members talked to Gibson as well as the other men looking to challenge Democrat U.S. Rep. Scott Murphy in the 20th Congressional...

Who wants Gillibrand’s former seat? Updated: 01/23/2009 06:59 PM By: Ken Jubie CAPITAL REGION, N.Y. -- Now that it’s official, Gillibrand’s seat in congress is up for grabs and there are already plenty of politicians prepared to reach for it. “And I think we need an upstate leader, somebody that knows the economy is suffering, somebody that knows we’re losing jobs, who knows what property taxes are in New York State,” said Jim Tedisco, currently the Assembly Minority Leader. His former colleague in the Assembly and newly minted State Senator from Wilton, Roy McDonald, doesn’t want the job, saying he’s...

It was the spring of 1994, and one of the greatest moments of John Faso’s political career was about to fall to pieces. For months, Mr. Faso, an upstate Republican assemblyman, had been campaigning county by county to woo party leaders in his race for state comptroller, New York’s top accounting job, an ideal fit for a self-described numbers nerd. By the time of the party convention that May, Mr. Faso had all but locked up the Republican nomination. Then the deal-making started. In back-room maneuvering, allies of George E. Pataki, the Republican candidate for governor, decided to deny Mr....

If there was a moment when Eliot Spitzer’s ride to fame as New York attorney general was nearly derailed, it came on April 8, 2002. That was the day Mr. Spitzer stunned Wall Street by using a little-known state law to win a court order requiring Merrill Lynch to disclose potential business conflicts involving its stock analysts. The maneuver brought a secret, long-running investigation into the open, and forced Merrill Lynch — and, later, other big firms — to make concessions they had resisted and helped turn Mr. Spitzer into a political star. But what few people noticed in those...

GOP hopeful needed hit to close gap Republican John Faso opened fire last night on front-runner Eliot Spitzer in the last gubernatorial debate, trying to paint Spitzer as a "timid" leader who lets crooked political pals off the hook and was "asleep at the switch" on Medicaid fraud. Spitzer, who earned the nickname "Sheriff of Wall Street" by taking on financial companies as two-term state attorney general, rebuffed the attacks. "Despite all the angry extreme rhetoric from my opponent, the public knows who has stood up for the public for eight years," said Spitzer, who led Faso, a lawyer and...

John Faso aggressively attacked Eliot Spitzer as self-aggrandizing and politically timid last night in their final debate in the race for governor, while Mr. Spitzer — who has rarely been so on the defensive — denounced Mr. Faso’s “angry, extreme rhetoric.” Struggling to close a 50-point deficit in opinion polls, Mr. Faso unleashed a stream of harsh words throughout the hourlong televised debate, saying Mr. Spitzer, the state attorney general, had used “bluster and intimidation” in his prosecutions and twice calling him “asleep at the switch” as Medicaid fraud ran rampant. Yet the clearest calculation of Mr. Faso, the Republican...

"Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer" By Brooke A. Masters (New York: Henry Holt; 368 pages; $26) "Nice kid. He's gonna get killed," Daniel Patrick Moynihan, New York's senior U.S. senator, growled backstage after grudgingly endorsing Eliot Spitzer's 1998 candidacy for attorney general of New York. Moynihan, a fabled handicapper, was wrong: Spitzer won -- albeit barely, by 25,186 votes out of 4.3 million cast, and only after a recount. Now, thanks to his highly publicized attacks on the fraud and abuse in the financial services industry, he's a household name, the most famous (or infamous, depending...

FASO RAISES VITAL ISSUE NEW York voters who accept the in evitability of an Eliot Spitzer governorship risk creating a second inevitability: that the state will continue to limp along hobbled by some of the highest income taxes in the nation. Spitzer's opponent, John Faso, offers at least a faint hope of altering that course. New York's state and local income taxes rank No. 1 in America, according to the Tax Foundation. The state's top rate, nearly 7 percent, hits couples with gross incomes starting at about $55,000 (with taxable income of $40,000). This rate is among the top quarter...

Republican candidate for governor John Faso tells News 8 Democratic State Comptoller Alan Hevesi is a criminal and he should resign. Faso made those comments in an interview here at Channel 8 Friday. He says Hevesi is getting away with a crime and his Democratic opponent for governor, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, is doing nothing about it. Earlier this week Hevesi agreed to reimburse the state $82,000 after is was revealed he used a state employee as his wife's chauffeur for the last three years. "And I'm appalled the comptroller of the state of New York has admitted now he...

ITHACA NY--A Gannett-owned Ithaca newspaper will refuse to participate in a gubernatorial debate in that city, after the event's organizers rejected its questions including one that seemed to advance 9/11 conspiracy theories.According to the Ithaca Journal, the rejected questions for the debate included the following: Thousands of New Yorkers continue to suffer from the 2001 terror attacks in NYC. Families and surviving victims have sought additional investigations on the attack that were never addressed by the 9/11 Commission Report. Do you accept the findings of that Commission, or are there areas of that investigation that still leave you with unanswered...

The Mets and Yankees may be safely in first place, but New Yorkers haven't had much else to cheer about lately. The state ranks first in the nation in net outmigration since 2000, according to a Manhattan Institute analysis of Census data, and the economic damage is especially notable in such struggling upstate areas as Utica and Buffalo. With even nearby Rhode Island planning a reduction in income tax rates, New York will slip further behind on the cost of doing business. Enter GOP candidate for Governor John Faso, who is expected to release a tax reduction plan today that...

Thomas M. Long, Queens County Chairman Raquel Lacomba Walker, Political Affairs Chairwoman For Immediate Press Release Contact: Thomas M. Long (718) 359-7898 **FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Queens County Conservatives urge your support for Conservative Party candidates in the November 2006 election. Join us on Thursday, September 28, 2006 at 8:00 P.M. at the American Legion Continental Post #1424, located at 107-15 Metropolitan Avenue, Forest Hills, New York. “It’s important that Queens Conservatives volunteer at campaigns, by giving out literature or making phone calls.” said Queens County Chairman Tom Long. “We understand that the odds are difficult, but that doesn’t mean we...

Why is the New York press ignoring the candidacy of Republican/Conservative John Faso. John Faso was the former minority leader for the Republican party in the State Assembly and came very close to defeating Alan Hevesi three years ago for State Controller. Now that he is running against super liberal Eliot Spitzer, the press is crowning Spitzer governor and ignoring Faso.

That didn't take long. On Day 1 of the general election campaign for governor, Eliot Spitzer and his GOP challenger, John Faso, traded nasty barbs over how they earn their money - a rift that exposed deep, class-based differences in their backgrounds. It began early, when Spitzer dismissed the former assemblyman as a "big-time lobbyist and lawyer" when asked at a morning press conference about Faso's support for some of Spitzer's legal targets, among them former New York Stock Exchange head Dick Grasso. "It's kind of amazing that John Faso lines up with the defendants, who have essentially taken improperly...

Faso calls for end of public pensions for new hires By MICHAEL GORMLEY Associated Press Writer August 1, 2006, 1:51 PM EDT ALBANY, N.Y. -- Republican candidate for governor John Faso called Tuesday for a state law that would eliminate traditional pensions for newly hired public workers. "It's a generational savings that would accrue to the taxpayers," Faso said. "Over 20 years, that kind of thing would really save taxpayers money ... We have to have dramatic change in New York state." The plan would gradually eliminate costly pensions for public employees, an expense increasingly blamed for growing local government...