Daily Campaign Roundup: Tony Avella is Taking Questions
By Mike Connery on 07/29/2010 @ 04:13 PM
TODAY'S CAMPAIGN ROUND-UP.... Today's installment of campaign-related news. Tony Avella is taking questions at The Albany Project. Republican challenger Anthony Como forced to return misused campaign cash. Republican incumbent Martin Golden drops petty petition challenge of Democratic challenger Mike DiSanto.
- What would you ask Democratic Candidate Tony Avella? - In their second installment of interviews of Democratic State Senate challengers, The Albany Project will be interviewing Tony Avella, who is challenging 38-year Republican incumbent Frank Padavan. Padavan scraped by in 2008, defeating Councilman Jim Gennaro by only 480 votes after a lengthy recount. Everyone is encouraged to send in questions for Avella here.
- Martin Golden drops petition challenge - Incumbent Republican Martin Golden, facing his first election contest in years, has dropped his challenge of Democratic Candidate Mike DiSanto's petitions. DiSanto declared that he was not surprised by the Golden campaign’s challenge, adding that it is not unusual for “entrenched” incumbent politicians to challenge opponent petition signatures. “Everyone in the community knows my signatures are valid,” said DiSanto. “We live in a democracy and do not crown kings in America. I will not be intimidated by those who seek to undermine the political freedom that our country was founded upon,” With 2,100 signatures, he collected over twice the number required.
- Republican challenger forced to repay improperly used campaign funds - Former New York City Council Member Anthony Como, a Republican running for State Senate against Sen. Joe Addabbo, has been ordered to repay nearly $13,000 in unspent and misspent funds to the New York City Campaign Finance Board. The charges stem from his losing 2008 general election Council loss to Elizabeth Crowley. The repayment includes $6,800 that was spent impermissibly on phone and copy machine contracts for his campaign office that spanned well beyond Election Day, repayments of unspent campaign funds, and $100 spent on a newspaper ad for the Holy Child Jesus Team Drama Club that the CFB deemed not campaign related.
Quick Hits from the Trail: Valesky Gets Endorsed, Three-Way in SD-40
By Mike Connery on 04/22/2010 @ 04:08 PM
A few quick hits from the campaign trail today:
- Yet another Republican - Jim Borkowski - is throwing his hat into the ring to replace Senator Vincent Leibell. That makes this a three-way primary.
- Madison County Democrats met and endorsed the reelection of Senator Dave Valesky.
- The Oswego Tea Party does not like Pattie Ritchie.
- Mike DiSanto announced that he is running to take out Brooklyn's last Republican, Martin Golden.
- More press coverage of Breslin's reelection campaign launch.
