Edward Cox

Shelly Silver: I Acted In "Best Interest" Of Gropez Victims

New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver maintains that he believes that he'll be cleared of any wrongdoing in the Vito Lopez sex debacle, during which the speaker signed off on more than $100,000 in taxpayer funded hush money to sweep allegations of sexual misconduct against Lopez under the rug.He ... More >>

NY GOP's Post-Election Memo: Hispanic Voters Exist

The New York State Republican Party put out its post-election memo over the weekend and -- after blaming President Obama for the ills of the world (and the NYS GOP) -- Chairman Ed Cox echoed what political experts have been saying since Tuesday (and we've been saying for the last five years): Republ ... More >>

"My Job Is Fucked": NY Republicans Respond To Four More Years Of "Obamunism"

New York Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox started last night's "victory party" in a ballroom at the Westin Grand Central hotel in Midtown by assuring the roughly 300 attendees that he was confident that Mitt Romney would be the country's next president.By the end of the night, Cox looked like someon ... More >>

NY GOP Confident, Arrogant at Midtown "Victory Party"

The New York State Republican Party is holding its election night "victory party" on the third floor of the Westin Grand Central in Midtown right now, and spirits are high amongst GOPers as their horse in this year's presidential election appears to stand a chance at pulling off a victory."I think i ... More >>

Mitt Romney's Partying With Kid Rock Tonight; NY GOP Outrage Nonexistent

New York Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox has spent a good chunk of this election season kvetching about the amount of time President Barack Obama has spent hobnobbing with celebrities.But when Cox's horse in this year's presidential race parties with celebs, the chairman's outrage is nonexistent -- ... More >>

NY GOP Wants Investigation Into Rep. Steve Israel's Sketchy Mortgage "Bailout"

The New York Post ran an "exclusive" story yesterday suggesting that Long Island Congressman Steve Israel's 2008 support of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) for financially strapped banks is the reason he was granted a "bailout" on the mortgage for his Dix Hills home. The bank that holds Isr ... More >>

Obama Back in New York To Hobnob With Jay-Z; GOP Pissy (Redux)

President Barack Obama will be back in the Big Apple to hobnob with celebrities, and -- per usual -- the state's Republicans are pissy about it.The "fundraiser in chief" will be in Manhattan tonight, where he will party with Jay-Z and Beyoncé at a $40,000-a-person fundraiser at the rappers 40/40 Cl ... More >>

Sign (Toothless) Petition Calling For Shelly Silver's Resignation Right Here

Powerful Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver continues to catch heat for his coverup of sexual harassment allegations against his former pal, disgraced Assemblyman Vito Lopez, and now New York Republicans are circulating a petition calling for his resignation.Granted, it's only a petition -- ... More >>

NY GOP Compares Coverup Of Vito Lopez's Pervy-ness To Penn State Scandal

If the many, many allegations of sexual misconduct are true, shamed Assemblyman Vito Lopez is a dirty, dirty old man -- he tells female staffers not to wear bras, shoves his hands up their skirts, etc.The coverup of the disgraced pol's alleged actions by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver are equally s ... More >>

New York GOP Owes Assemblyman Vito "Gropez" Lopez A Thank You For His Alleged Pervy-ness

New York Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox has issued three statements in the past 24 hours -- which is three more than he's issued in the past two weeks -- each of which references shamed Democratic Assemblyman Vito Lopez's pervy-ness.In each statement, Cox seems outraged that Lopez allegedly is a d ... More >>

New York Republicans Continue To Whine About Barack Obama Running For President. In Related News, The Sun Came Up Today

President Barack Obama will be in town tonight to attend a fundraising event to raise money for his ongoing presidential campaign -- because, well...he's running for president, and attending fundraisers is what people running for president do. Obama's doing what everyone who's ever run for president ... More >>

GOP Chairman Ed Cox Knows More About Chick Flicks Than Your Girlfriend Does (And He Can't Stand Barack Obama)

If there are three things that New York GOP Chairman Ed Cox loves they're puns, chick flicks, and more puns!In his latest attack on President Barack Obama's proclivity for partying with celebrities, the chairman issued a statement this afternoon bashing Bam over tonight's fundraiser at the home of S ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Steve "Budget Crusher" Levy and the Crew from Crookhaven

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Delegating Authority

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

Clinton Foe Claims Media Lockout

Back to Jeanine vs. Hillary

Ed Cox drops Senate bid after Pataki endorses Pirro

That Other Guy

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

Spoiling for a Catfight

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

Kamikaze Jeanine

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

Code Pink

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

The Hayseed vs. Hillary

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

SUNY, Inc.

The Decline of Higher Ed Under Pataki