Subject:

Alfonse D'Amato

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2011

    Wayne Barrett: Time for Something New

    ​Ed Koch and I were inaugurated on the same day in 1978. He became mayor and I became his weekly tormentor. I had written a few pieces for the Voice before I took over the Runnin' Scared column that January, going back as far as 1973. But I was now inheriting a column that Mary Nichols, th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2010

    Al D'Amato Goes Ballistic, Maybe Over His Name on a Post Office

    My proudest moment as a journalist was when Al D'Amato called me a "viper" in his memoir, Power, Pasta & Politics. Second proudest was when Chuck Schumer -- in his 2007 book, Positively American -- cited one of my stories as the decisive moment in his successful 1998 senate campaign against D'Amato, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2010

    Angry Man Carl Paladino: 'You think these people who voted for us yesterday just crawled out of a space ship?'

    ​Less than 24 hours after winning his first election, Carl "Angry Man" Paladino sat down in a TV studio to prove that just because he's now the official Republican standard-bearer for governor doesn't mean he's going to put a cork in it. Paladino sat somewhere in Buffalo while NY1's Elizabeth ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2010

    Andrew Cuomo and Bruce Blakeman Seeing Same Green

    ​Andrew Cuomo, the diehard Democrat-who-would-be-governor, and Bruce Blakeman, the stalwart Republican-who-would-be-senator, are light years apart on most things political. But money is money, and both pols are employing the same political consultant to raise the big bucks. Blakeman -- desper ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009

    This Week in the Voice

    ​Like to gamble online? Political odd couples like Barney Frank and Al D'Amato are fighting for your right to do so. Meanwhile James Giordano made millions via internet gambling, and wound up in prison. So... do you feel lucky? Graham Rayman has the story. Tom Robbins has previously covered t ... More >>

  • Columns

    January 28, 2009

    David Paterson and Kirsten Gillibrand: New Senator, New Scandal

    The Governor's pick is genuine machine-made royalty

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2009

    Barrett: Gillibrand and Paterson - The D'Amato Connection

    The pudgy papa awaiting his hug and kiss when 42-year-old Kirsten Gillibrand walked toward the podium at her senatorial debut last week was Alphonse D'Amato, still the most powerful Republican in New York, a full decade after he lost his senate seat to the bookend on the other side of the podium, Se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2009

    Paterson Presents Senator Gillibrand

    Your new Senator with Al D'Amato (l.) "So it's August the 14th, 2003," says Governor Paterson, "and I am going to meet a lawyer who is going to be meeting me in an office building in Manhatan." (He wanted her not to run for Congress in '04, as she had planned, but the state senate.) "All the light ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2009

    Wayne Barrett: Is Gillibrand Too Republican to Replace Clinton?

    Now that Caroline Kennedy has dropped out, the new frontrunner for Hillary Clinton's senate seat is upstate congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democratic hero for capturing a Republican-majority district in 2006. Camera crews are now posted outside her home in Hudson, New York, and she is reportedl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2008

    The 'Judge D'Amato' Show: Scenes We'd Like to See

    Now that Caroline Kennedy has dropped out, the new frontrunner for Hillary Clinton's senate seat is upstate congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democratic hero for capturing a Republican-majority district in 2006. Camera crews are now posted outside her home in Hudson, New York, and she is reportedl ... More >>

  • News

    January 22, 2008

    Delegating Authority

    As McCain and Romney fight for the nomination, New York’s G.O.P. has a lot to lose

  • News

    September 25, 2007

    Cuomo's Gal Friday

    Plenty keeps Albany's political odd couple, Andrew and Joe, together

  • News

    April 24, 2007

    The New Dealer

    With Spitzer at the table, Pataki's casino cronies pull an inside straight

  • News

    January 31, 2006

    The Fonz's Pitch

    Open door policy

  • News

    August 9, 2005

    Serving a Life Term

    Morgenthau: The long, long, long, long arm of the law

  • News

    August 19, 2003

    New York's Prince of Darkness

    Pataki Policies Put Us at the Blackout Brink

  • News

    July 15, 2003

    Fixer Fonz

    The Ex-Senator Brags About Bonanzas, Hides Behind Pataki

  • News

    December 24, 2002

    The Double Standard

    While Unions Are Scrutinized, MTA Bigs Get Free Ride

  • News

    December 17, 2002

    Toussaint's Transit Express

    All It Took Was a Little Respect

  • News

    October 22, 2002

    Bad Policy, Big Bucks

    How Pataki's Disastrous Energy Plan Fattened His Friends and Campaign Coffers

  • News

    September 10, 2002

    Dead Man Running

    Ray Harding's Strategy for Liberal Party Survival

  • News

    March 5, 2002

    The Louima Prosecutor

    Pataki and D'Amato's Pick Is Unqualified and Tainted

  • News

    February 26, 2002

    Pataki Patronage

    The Guv's Attempt to Name a Prosecutor Lays Bare His Own Scandal

  • News

    November 14, 2000

    Campaign Classics

    Tales From the Trail About Green, Zogby, Powers, and Zuckerman

  • News

    October 24, 2000

    The Post's Predictable Pollster

    Surges and Soft Money

  • News

    June 13, 2000

    Making Money Like Crazy

    Out With the Poor, in With the Rich . . . and Into Lazio’s Coffers

  • News

    June 6, 2000

    In the Land of Milk and Money

    Lazio Has Made Mortgages Pay Off Big Time for His Campaign

  • News

    May 30, 2000

    Ricky Rich

    Lazio Knows Where to Get the Big Bucks

  • News

    January 4, 2000

    Millennial Matchup

    Zany and Historical Factors That Will Make Rudy or Hill a Winner 

  • News

    May 25, 1999

    Boola, Boola, Boola!

    Yalies Pataki and Bush Agree on Presidency, Disagree on Rudy

  • News

    December 8, 1998

    Scandalous Beauty

    Crooks with looks

  • Specials

    December 8, 1998

    Letters

    Crooks with looks

  • News

    November 24, 1998

    The 1998 Wacko Awards

    Crooks with looks

  • Specials

    November 24, 1998

    Letters

    Crooks with looks

  • News

    November 17, 1998

    Sealed With a Kiss

    Finally, the Fonz Falls. And Our Watch Stops.

  • News

    November 10, 1998

    Slur Blur

    The Bandito Was A Gunman

  • News

    November 10, 1998

    The Green Menace

    The Bandito Was A Gunman

  • News

    November 3, 1998

    D'Amato's Final Days

    Oy! is foul-mouthed Fonz headed for a fall?

  • News

    November 3, 1998

    Absentee Al

    D'Amato Missed 966 Votes When He First Ran for Senate

  • Specials

    November 3, 1998

    Letters

    D'Amato Missed 966 Votes When He First Ran for Senate

  • News

    October 27, 1998

    Good For The Gays?

    A widening rift over the political direction of America's gay rights lobby

  • News

    October 27, 1998

    Needs Sleep

    A widening rift over the political direction of America's gay rights lobby

  • News

    October 20, 1998

    Desperate Times

    A widening rift over the political direction of America's gay rights lobby

  • News

    October 13, 1998

    Sticks & Stones

    A widening rift over the political direction of America's gay rights lobby

  • News

    October 13, 1998

    Secret Agent Man

    Blakeman raises dirty dollars in stealth campaign against McCall

  • News

    October 6, 1998

    Fonz's Greatest Hits

    Blakeman raises dirty dollars in stealth campaign against McCall

  • News

    September 29, 1998

    Hyde in Plain Sight

    Blakeman raises dirty dollars in stealth campaign against McCall

  • News

    September 29, 1998

    House of Hypocrites

    While congress is set to sit in judgment of President Clinton, many of its members have their own indiscretions to deal with. Lucky for them Ken Starr isn't investigating them and the notoriously lax ethics committee is.

  • News

    September 15, 1998

    The Ubiquitous Candidate

    In the final days of the primary, Chuck Schumer is everywhere

  • News

    July 7, 1998

    The Last Reformer?

    Mark Green's Senate Campaign Ignores the Isms (as in Leftism)

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