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Edward Cox

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    Is Barack Obama Partying With Ricky Martin Really Something To Get All Pissy About?

    President Barack Obama attended a fundraiser hosted by former Menudo star Ricky Martin last night -- and New York State Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox joined the growing list of GOPers pissy over the president's partying.Cox issued a statement basically saying that Obama's hanging out with Martin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2012

    Obama Earns Coveted Ricky Martin Endorsement; New York GOP Irked By Prez Partying With Celebs

    For anyone who takes their political cues from pop star Ricky Martin, the former Menudo member has thrown his support behind President Barack Obama in this year's election -- he's even throwing the president a pretty pricey fundraiser in New York tonight, which the state's Republican Party seems to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Happy New York Republican Primary Day; GOPers Still Pretending Primary Matters, Which Is Adorable

    Happy Republican primary day, New York! Now make sure and get out there and vote because your vote really (ahem) matters -- according to the New York State Republican Party, anyway. In reality, however, your vote means precisely nothing.The New York State Republican Party issued a press release last ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2012

    Rick Santorum Bails On New York GOP's (Pricey) Dinner

    There's bad news if you forked over $1,000 to New York's Republican Party to attend its annual dinner: former presidential candidate Rick Santorum won't be there.GOP spokeswoman Becky Miller tells the Voice Santorum is out. Santorum, she says, didn't give a specific reason, but we can only assume th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    New York GOP Mum On Whether Rick Santorum Will Still Attend Party's Fancy ($1,000 A Plate) Dinner

    The New York state Republican Party is holding its annual dinner next week, at which now-former presidential candidate Rick Santorum currently is scheduled to be a guest of honor. However, now that he's bailed on his campaign, it's unclear whether Santorum will actually show up -- and that's because ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2012

    Hide Your Porn! Rick Santorum's Coming to New York. Newt Gingrich, Too

    Wannabe presidential candidate Rick Santorum -- who the Washington Post has decided is edging "towards the embarrassment zone" -- apparently still thinks he can win the GOP presidential primary -- which is adorable. Sadly, that means he'll soon start campaigning in New York, where 95 delegates are a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2012

    GOP Uses Stock Act as Excuse to Call Kirsten Gillibrand a Congressional Inside Trader (Again)

    ​Following yesterday's passage in the U.S. Senate of the Federal Stock Act, the New York State Republican Party came out swinging. Per usual, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand -- who voted in favor of the bill -- is the target of the GOP's blows.First and foremost, the Federal Stock Act would make it so ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    Bobby Jindal, Fizzled GOP Star, To Give Keynote At New York Republicans' Annual Dinner

    ​We know what you were probably thinking when you woke up this morning: "what ever happened to Bobby Jindal after that ghastly response he gave to President Barack Obama's 2009 State of the Union Address?"Well, maybe you weren't...but we've got an update anyway.Jindal, a former U.S. congressman/cu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2012

    STOCK Act Passes in Senate, Despite Accusations of Hypocrisy Against Gillibrand

    State Senator Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY) said that passing a bill that would outlaw congressional insider trading is a crucial move to regain the public's confidence in the government. The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act sailed through a Senate vote earlier today, with a vote of 96-3. " ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2010

    Carl Paladino Can't Catch a Break, Even From GOP-Loving Murdoch

    Nixon's Checkers speech: Paladino needs one​The Greater Murdoch Empire may be pumping millions into national Republican races, but it's working overtime to drive the GOP's Carl Paladino bananas. Today, the Post gives a rare tip of the Murdoch hat to Sir Rupert's much-loathed rival, the Times, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2010

    Republican Leader Says New Yorkers Don't Care About Gay Rights!

    ​That's right, folks. The interestingly named Ed Cox, who is the New York State GOP chief, told CNN that, heck, Carl Paladino apologized for his remarks about gays, and besides, "That's not what the people of New York State really care about." Got that? Cox basically added insult to injury b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2010

    It's Rick Lazio for the GOP As Wild-Eyed Radical Republicans Take a Beating

    ​Today was Day Two of the state Republican Party convention and the hot and heavy action on the delegate floor came early and often. These were rock-solid Republicans filling the big ballroom at the Sheraton Towers in midtown, but for all their rhetoric, they could just as easily have been an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2010

    Nixon Haunts GOP Confab in Midtown

    ​The state Republican convention opened Tuesday afternoon at the Sheraton Towers on Seventh Avenue and the first noise-making inside the hotel was from that old GOP warhorse, Richard Nixon. He came charging into the lobby like a Teabagger chasing down the last liberal. "Let me make it perfectl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2010

    Steve Levy Has an Odd-Couple Roommate Tenant Problem

    ​Gubernatorial wannabe Steve Levy this morning is trying to explain his "Odd Couple" roommate, a disgraced lawyer named Ethan Ellner who recently copped a guilty plea in a massive mortgage scam with a kinky overlay of S&M. As the Daily News' relentless Elizabeth Benjamin reports today, Levy sh ... More >>

  • Columns

    April 6, 2010

    Steve "Budget Crusher" Levy and the Crew from Crookhaven

    ​Gubernatorial wannabe Steve Levy this morning is trying to explain his "Odd Couple" roommate, a disgraced lawyer named Ethan Ellner who recently copped a guilty plea in a massive mortgage scam with a kinky overlay of S&M. As the Daily News' relentless Elizabeth Benjamin reports today, Levy sh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2010

    Rick Lazio, Embattled GOP Candidate for Governor, Gets Unofficial Conservative Party Nod

    Levy and Lazio​Long Island Republican Rick Lazio, who faces primary challenges from the left and right for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, got a boost today when he won the endorsement of the Executive Committee of Mike Long's Conservative Party in Brooklyn. Since its founding, the Co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2010

    Andrew Cuomo Gets an Attack Ad

    Here's your first anti-Andrew Cuomo ad of the pre-season, sponsored by New Yorkers for Growth, a pro-business group that got 10 grand from local GOP boss Ed Cox and who want you to know that Cuomo has gone easy on... the Working Families Party, whose corruption has led to out-of-court settlements ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2010

    Eric Cantor, Dan Senor Host Fundraiser for Tea Party Candidate in NY-1

    ​Via Elizabeth Benjamin in the Daily News, House Minority Whip (and Republican Rebranding specialist) Eric Cantor will be a special guest tonight at a fundraiser for self-funding millionaire Suffolk County House candidate Randy Altschuler. On the host committee: Bush loyalist, Iraq Coalition a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2010

    Mort Zuckerman Welcome to Run for GOP Senate Nod: State Chair

    ​Several local chairmen of the state Republican Party got together last night and endorsed Bruce Blakeman for the 2010 Senate race. But the state chairman, Ed Cox, says the Party is still open to other contenders -- including Daily News publisher Mort Zuckerman. Zuckerman is "very concerned a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2009

    Giuliani to Abandon Governor Run, Switch to Senate, Say Usual Unnamed Sources

    Sometimes we'd swear the Republicans are just fucking with us. First they terrorized us all with the notion that Rudolph Giuliani would run for Governor, and to that end was bent on installing his own puppet state GOP chairman. Now it looks like the puppet's strings have been cut and Ed Cox will run ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2009

    Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

    ​ Dancers from InSpirit beckon passers-by to enter a new store on Broadway near 13th Street. Labor Day, with its West Indian American Day Parade, was the high point of the week. The low point was, let's see... the rest of it. 9/11 was a popular topic. It was oddly related to a Twitter Festiv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2009

    A Big Post Boost for Fast Eddie Cox

    ​Forget about next week's Democratic primaries. The nastiest political race raging these days is the one to replace Joe Mondello as head of the near-moribund New York State Republican Party. On one side are what New York Post political editor Fred Dicker, in a nicely over the top op-ed c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    Giuliani Fighting for His GOP Chairman, But To What End?

    The backstage drama of the New York State GOP chairmanship battle continues! The short version is, Rudolph Giuliani is backing Henry Wojtaszek -- loyal to Giuliani, who is thought to have eyes on the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 2010. The front-runner is Ed Cox -- yes, Tricia Nixon's husba ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2009

    Giuliani All Up In State GOP Power Struggle

    Republicans were spreading the word today that Rudolph Giuliani was going to support state Republican chairman Joe Mondello for another term in charge of the GOP, against the challenges of Ed Cox and Henry Wojtaszek. But Liz Benjamin had heard things differently: Giuliani, she'd been told, was goin ... 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

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2006

    Clinton Foe Claims Media Lockout

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

  • News

    October 11, 2005

    Back to Jeanine vs. Hillary

    Ed Cox drops Senate bid after Pataki endorses Pirro

  • News

    September 27, 2005

    That Other Guy

    Ed Cox could be the best bet to challenge Clinton, if only the GOP would let him

  • News

    August 9, 2005

    Spoiling for a Catfight

    It's scratch, hiss, claw in media land as Clinton and Pirro square off

  • News

    May 24, 2005

    Kamikaze Jeanine

    Pressed by GOP bigs—Karl Rove!—Pirro considers a run against Hillary Clinton

  • News

    May 3, 2005

    Code Pink

    New York Republicans search for a woman to take on Hillary next year

  • News

    April 12, 2005

    The Hayseed vs. Hillary

    William Brenner is a small-town guy with a big ambition

  • News

    September 17, 2002

    SUNY, Inc.

    The Decline of Higher Ed Under Pataki

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