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  • Ognibene's Quest for GOP Primary Denied

    09/13/2005 11:23:42 AM PDT · by firebrand · 15 replies · 413+ views
    Newsday ^ | September 13, 2005 | William Murphy
    It's official. There will not be a Republican primary for mayor today. A federal court has refused to hear an expedited appeal from Thomas Ognibene to restore him to the ballot. The Board of Elections threw him off last month after Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Ognibene did not have enough valid signatures on his nominating petitions.
  • How Ognibene Could End Up as a Spoiler of the Mayor's Campaign

    01/23/2005 6:53:58 AM PST · by nyc.flip.conservative · 59 replies · 850+ views
    The New York Sun ^ | January 17, 2005 | DINA TEMPLE-RASTON
    How Ognibene Could End Up as a Spoiler of the Mayor's Campaign BY DINA TEMPLE-RASTON - Staff Reporter of the Sun January 17, 2005 The Bloomberg campaign got some bad news over the weekend when a former Republican leader of the City Council, Thomas Ognibene, made it official: He plans to challenge Mayor Bloomberg in the primary. "The real, dramatic announcement will be in a couple of weeks, but everybody knows this is it: I'm running," the 61-year-old former councilman said in an interview with The New York Sun. "I am running because the Republican Party deserves a candidate for...