Powerful NY City unions? YUP! We know where Thompsons and Hoyts allegiances are and they are not here in Western New York where their district is. That is for dam sure. They both disgust me, why? Because I am stuck with both of them as my legislators and supposed representatives [...]
Mike Bloomberg got a taste of the kind of needling he may be getting next month when incoming comptroller John Liu takes office. Yesterday, Liu double-teamed with Bill Thompson to let the Mayor kn...
Continue reading "Liu and Thompson Tag-Team on Bloomy Bank Accounts" > [...]
Some new polls show that junior Senator Kirsten Gillibrand may be vulnerable during her first election next year. According to the Observer, a Siena poll found that "I don't know" (35%) won out over Gillibrand (32%), who was followed by City' [...]
This morning's Quinnipiac poll showing Senator Kirsten Gillibrand trailing former Mayoral candidate Bill Thompson, 41-28 percent in a prospective 2010 race is somewhat countered by the new Siena P...
Continue reading "Polls: Kirsten Gillibrand Loses to Bill Thompson, Does Better in Split Field" > [...]For Governor David Paterson, the Q Poll has one piece of good news. His favorable rating is up to 38 percent - the highest it has [...]
(An e-mail from activist Russ Thompson)
SSGT John Stanz will be arriving back home to Buffalo Tuesday at 4:45 Buffalo Airport. John has been in rehab in Germany and now Pennsylvania, since he was injured in Afghanistan. This came as a surprise to his family but of course he is welcomed [...]
I happy that Scott is so dam happy with A. Thompson, me? I have never been more disgusted with the man. He ran for election and said outright that he was against gay marriage and even said it in a Church. So just like the rest, he is a lying [...]
So what does a behind the scenes look at the campaigns for comptroller and mayor reveal?
For one, John Liu’s campaign staff was never aiming for the endorsements of the city’s three major dailies, they were, at times, trying to separate the campaign from its Working Families [...]
So what does a behind the scenes look at the campaigns for comptroller and mayor reveal?
For one, John Liu’s campaign staff was never aiming for the endorsements of the city’s three major dailies, they were, at times, trying to separate the campaign from its Working Families [...]
That the campaign of mayoral candidate Bill Thompson would be fined heavily for illegal postering makes sense -- such campaigns cover a lot of city property. But the city wants out of Susan Hager,...
Continue reading "Thousands in Fines for One Poster Only the Latest Sanitation" [...]It’s over with with Zelonis anyway, now we just have to get those tolls down. I won’t stop until they are and Thompson and Luh investigated for coercion and screwing the public.
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The fired Grand Island Bridge toll collector who sent threatening e-mails to an anti-toll activist on the Island pleaded [...]
The video says it all about tonight’s court proceedings. Thank you George Richert, he did a great job covering this tonight.
Told judge he was sorry, but not Thompson directly
George Richert
GRAND ISLAND, N.Y. (WIVB) – His threats against “free bridge” advocate Rus Thompson has already taken a toll, costing [...]
I am happy to say that I had a little to do with a lot of this coverage of Senator Antoine Thompson. I was there at his fundraiser just to see if he a fool enough to show up. WHY, when this state is in such a mess fiscally would [...]
(An e-mail from citizen/activist Russ Thompson)
Last night while negotiations were hot and heavy in Albany Senator Antoine Thompson decided to say enough with Albany and headed to Buffalo to attend the fundraiser Donna Luh worked on putting together for him.
In a time that New York state is suffering with another [...]
Thompson Reuters announced today that departed BusinessWeek editor Stephen Adler is joining the media company in the newly created position of senior vice president and editorial director of its Professional division.
The Professional division of Thompson Reuters, which includes the company's Westlaw legal database as [...]
According to City Comptroller Bill Thompson's latest campaign fiance filings, the Observer reports that he spent "$9,003,711...on his campaign, which came within a few percentage points of beating Michael Bloomberg's $102 million re-election campaign...In his latest filing period, Thompson spent $1,040,000 on television" [...]
On Election Night, I called Bill Thompson the Christie Whitman of New York politics, since his startlingly narrow, 4.6-point loss to Mayor Bloomberg represented perhaps the biggest near-miss shocker since a then-unknown Whitman came within two points of unseating Bill Bradley in 1990.
And now he's doing exactly what [...]
While Albany is burning Antoine Thompson and Donna Luh are out shaking down donors.
Tonight while negotiations were hot and heavy in Albany Senator Antoine Thompson decided to say enough with Albany and headed to Buffalo to attend the fundraiser Donna Luh worked on putting together for him.
In a time [...]
Photograph of Thompson at a mayoral debate from the AP After his surprisingly competitive mayoral bid against Mayor Bloomberg, there have been various rumors about what City Comptroller Bill Thompson might do next. First there were murmurs of a Senate run, [...]
Eric Massa brought Homeland Security Committee Chair Bennie Thompson to town. On Sunday, they met with some firefighters in Hornell. Yesterday, they visited Kennedy Valve, a manufacturing company in Elmira.
[...]If she has done no wrong then why is she gonna stop.
She has been on at least 8 tickets and as many as 12 so, she made a deal with the senator that he would not pursue the toll issue as long as she raises money for his campaign. [...]
During this year’s final mayoral debate, Bill Thompson was said by the local commentariat to have made two grievous errors, which were only not said to be fatal in and of themselves because his candidacy was pronounced by the same wise-men to be in a state of extremis, for which [...]
