Fred Dicker

Senate Candidate/Former Assembly Staffer: "Nobody Listens" To Complaints Of Sexual Harassment In Silver's "Boys Club"

New York Post scribe Fred Dicker supposedly is the "dean of the Albany press corp." When he's not puckering up to the rump of Governor Andrew Cuomo, Dicker is pegged with the task of weeding out scandals and corruption at the highest levels of state government. That said, you'd think that if a forme ... More >>

Don't Count Your Cosmos Before They've Hatched: Queens MLS Franchise Still Faces Multiple Obstacles

Ever since the Post's Albany columnist Fred Dicker reported on Monday -- based solely on two unnamed sources -- that a deal for an MLS stadium in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is "close to being wrapped up" and that construction "could begin early next year," the story has bounced around the journove ... More >>

Andrew Cuomo Cheerleader Fred Dicker Rushes To Gov's Rescue As Criticism Mounts Over Blackberry Use

Governor Andrew Cuomo has found a somewhat creative way around New York's public records laws: his Blackberry.Cuomo's use of Blackberry's BBN message system (and his refusal to use official state email) to communicate with staffers and other pols has come under fire by many (read: just about everyon ... More >>

Is Andrew Cuomo's Office's "File" On Critical Reporter As Insignificant As Gov's Office Says It Is?

Yesterday, Governor Andrew Cuomo's Press Secretary Josh Vlasto interrupted his vacation so he could appear on the radio show of Cuomo apologist/New York Post state capitol bureau chief Fred Dicker to explain that a "file" kept by Cuomo's flack on a reporter who's often critical of the governor wasn' ... More >>

Andrew Cuomo's PR Flack Kept "File" On "Generally Snarky" Reporter

Andrew Cuomo cheerleader/New York Post state capitol bureau chief Fred Dicker may have the right idea with his incessant butt-smooching of his main-man Cuomo -- if you don't want the gov's office to keep a "file" on you, that is. An aide to the governor reportedly kept a "file" on a reporter who he ... More >>

Andrew Cuomo Apologist Fred Dicker Rushes To Defend Gov's Flack's "File" On "Snarky" Reporter; Calls the Voice "Nasty"

Governor Andrew Cuomo's PR flack is under fire for a "file" he kept on a reporter who's often critical of Cuomo -- and now the gov's PR squad is running damage control.First stop -- as always -- Andrew Cuomo apologist/New York Post state capitol bureau chief Fred Dicker's radio show.It should be not ... More >>

Fred Dicker To Write Biography Of Andrew Cuomo: The Bromance Continues

Andrew Cuomo cheerleader/New York Post state bureau chief Fred Dicker is penning a biography of his gubernatorial man-crush, which -- if history tells us anything -- will be more of a bromance novel than an objective biography.Dicker announced his upcoming Cuomo bio on his radio show this morning -- ... More >>

New Yorkers Suspicious Of Andrew Cuomo's Shady Back-Room Deal-Making, Poll Shows

Andrew Cuomo, undoubtedly, is a pretty popular guy amongst New Yorkers (especially with New York Post state capital bureau chief Fred Dicker -- as we've chronicled, the guy just loves him). The gov currently boasts a 68-percent job approval rating, according to the latest poll. However, more than tw ... More >>

Andrew Cuomo Ditches Pataki-Era Gun Law. Fred Dicker Gushes

​Governor Andrew Cuomo's ditched a controversial gun law put in place by ex-Governor George Pataki -- and, as you probably expected, Fred Dicker, the New York Post's state capital bureau chief/captain of the Cuomo rah-rah squad, got the "exclusive" on the story.Dicker, as you also might imagine, i ... More >>

Andrew Cuomo Cheerleader Fred Dicker's Open To Suggestions On How To Stop Puckering Up For Gov's Rump

​New York Post state capital bureau chief/captain of the Andrew Cuomo cheerleading squad Fred Dicker asked us earlier this week what "tough questions" he should ask his pal Cuomo about the gov's new budget, which -- as Dicker swoons -- is expected to be on time for the second year in a row.Dicker ... More >>

Andrew Cuomo Makes Media Rounds To Brag About (Expected) On-Time Budget. Fred Dicker Ready With The Softballs

​Governor Andrew Cuomo is making the media rounds today to tout what's expected to be New York's second annual on-time budget. First stop (of course): New York Post state capital bureau chief Fred Dicker's radio show -- and Dicker was ready...with a fresh bag of softballs.Throughout the course of ... More >>

Andrew Cuomo Cheerleader Fred Dicker Draws Ire Of Albany Occupiers (Again)

​Fred Dicker, New York Post state capitol bureau chief/Governor Andrew Cuomo's number one fan, has again irked the "occupiers" up in Albany, where activists gathered at the state capitol this morning to protest Dicker, Cuomo and News Corps., the parent company of the Post.Calling him the "mouthpie ... More >>

No-Secrets Cuomo Administration Quickly Spills Some to Post

​ One of the most promising lines in our new governor's inauguration speech was his pledge "to lift the veil of secrecy" now surrounding Albany. This heavy lift began this morning with twin revelations from Andrew Cuomo's administration to that veil-lifting tabloid, the New York Post. First, w ... More >>

Carl Paladino TV Show Tonite: Will it be 'Mad Men' or 'True Blood'?

Morgan Schweitzer​Get ready to go to the windows and start shouting this evening, because at precisely 5:13 P.M. Carl Paladino will be making a "major announcement" on TV and it's going to be look out below. "I must make my witness," he was heard telling aides yesterday as he ordered them to b ... More >>

Carl Paladino vs. Fred Dicker, Reenacted by Bears (Video)

via Gothamist​As captivated as we were yesterday by the Fred Dicker/Carl Paladino brouhaha, there's a dust-up video today that outdoes that one, for the singular reason that it is exactly the same, except...Fred Dicker and Carl Paladino are played by animated bears. This is maybe better than t ... More >>

Paladino Unhinged: Smackdown at the Sagamore With Post's Fred U. Dicker

​Lake George in the early Fall is a lovely place which is why the state's Business Council held its meeting there yesterday at the palatial Sagamore Resort. They asked Buffalo Carl Paladino up to speak and his message was supposed to be about how he's going to make the state sweeter for busine ... More >>

Carl Paladino's Carefully Nurtured Crazy Act Is Working!

​A morning poll has Buffalo Carl Paladino running just six points shy of Andrew Cuomo and there is much hope in Media Land that it's true. "IT'S ON!" crows the News' Daily Politics blog. "Quinnipiac: Cuomo 49%, Paladino 43%." This proves, as pointed out succinctly in the Voice this week, that ... More >>

Democratic Attorney General Wannabe's Duck Debate on Great Fender Bender Scandal

​The five Democrats who want to be the state's next attorney general debated for the first time last night at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. Reports are that it was a sedate affair with no good mud-slinging worth relating. To NY1's great dismay, no one raised the biggest campaign issue so f ... More >>

Andrew Cuomo Hanging Out With BFF Fred Dicker Not Good News for Other State Democrats

Andrew Cuomo's decision to announce new tax policy on Fred Dicker's Albany radio show is as bad for the state as it is for Cuomo. It's already added to the budget drama gripping Albany. All you have to do is read the New York Post to see how often Freddie and Andrew talk, though the attorney genera ... More >>

Andrew Cuomo Risks Teachers' Union Wrath By Supporting Raising Number of Charter Schools

​The Post's Fred Dicker reports this morning that Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is planning to support the recently passed Senate Bill to increase the number of charter schools in the state. If true, this would be just the latest unlikely development in how the issue of charter schools is rea ... More >>

Fred Dicker Goes Unhinged Over Scandal No One Remembers

Remember Troopergate, the squabble between these two has-beens? Neither does anyone else.​The New York Post's Fred Dicker is Albany's most powerful reporter. He's broken so many stories he ought to know when to let one go. Instead, he wrote a rant yesterday that proves why even the best repor ... More >>

Andrew Cuomo Campaign Getting Lots of (Bad) Free Advice

​ When Fred Dicker of the New York Post talks, Albany listens. The tabloid's hard-punching state editor has as much or more impact on state politics these days - between his newspaper blasts and his daily radio show - as any capitol powerbroker. But Dicker's prediction in his "Inside Albany" c ... More >>

David Paterson's World Series of Whoppers

How a governor threw himself out of the game

Jay-Z , Aqueduct and David Paterson: The Winning Team

​You can't say that AEG - dubious designated developer of Aqueduct's new racino - doesn't have an eye for talent. Just a few days after Gov. David Paterson did an arms-around press conference with Jay-Z and wife Beyoncé last August 31, AEG honchos made Jay-Z an offer he didn't refuse: to beco ... More >>

David Paterson's Scandal That Wasn't: A Loving Look Back

​The David Paterson "bombshell" about which we and everyone else have been writing since Feburary 5, turns out to be a story about Paterson's top aide. The aide is alleged to have punched one girlfriend and to have torn the Halloween costume off another, though neither incident got past the wi ... More >>

David Paterson Calls Out Snow Plows for Aqueduct Probe

​Yesterday's thickest blizzard fell not from the sky. It was the snow job attempt by Governor David Paterson who had his otherwise estimable counsel, Peter Kiernan, issue a statement insisting that subpoenas served on the state Lottery Division were unrelated to the gov's deeply bizarre select ... More >>

Barrett: Larry Kudlow Sniffs Around For More Political Power

​On the heels of Scott Brown's big win, Larry Kudlow, the CNBC rudderless anchor, is apparently considering a senate run against New York's Chuck Schumer, pushed by GOP and Tea Party allies and admirers. It would make Schumer the only incumbent known to be facing two reformed cokeheads in th ... More >>

More Albany Special Sessions! Deficit Cuts (Or At Least More Nanny Laws) This Time for Sure!

The first round of special sessions of the Albany legislature didn't produce much; the second produced Leandra's Law but none of the budget-cutting that was allegedly the reason for the sessions. So far they've spent half a million just having the special sessions. But third time's the charm! They ... More >>

Times, Post: Giuliani Not Running for Governor (Update: Rudy Calls Report "Premature")

​What a waste of good rabble-rousing: After raging about Fort Hood, the New York terror trials, "political correctness" and such like, it appears Rudolph Giuliani is not going to run for governor, the Times reports. Fred Dicker has it too, so we doubt it's one of those left-wing smear jobs - ... More >>

Paterson Sets World Series Record for Dumb Cover-ups

The way it was supposed to work was that David Paterson would ride out his last days in office with something resembling statesmanlike respectability. At some point early next year, he'd take that sweet post at Columbia University, or maybe an ambassadorship in a sunny clime. The baton would pass to ... More >>

YankeesGate? SeriesGate? Paterson Tries for Free Tix, Scandal Erupts

Albany's such a mess. Now Fred Dicker at the Post reveals that Governor Paterson "secretly solicited five free tickets to last week's World Series opener, in apparent violation of the state ethics law..." But the cover-up, as always, is worse than the crime: A Paterson spokesman claimed the Yankee ... 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 >>

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 >>

Queens Special Election Announced, Rescinded, Destined for Court

On Friday Governor Paterson issued and then rescinded an order for a special election to fill the Queens assembly seat of Anthony Seminerio, who resigned in disgrace earlier this year. The Governor's office says the order was sent in error, and that Paterson never really endorsed the idea of having ... More >>

Coup in Review: Paterson Calls Special Session, Skelos Spokesman Says "Bullsh*t," Bloomberg Blames Dems, Espada Shows Off Bronx "Home"

Over the weekend Governor Paterson stepped into the Albany Coup spotlight, announcing that he would summon the state senators to a special session on Wednesday (the official session ends today), and he meant all the state senators, not just the Republicans who have been meeting alone, without a quor ... More >>

Giuliani Calls Paterson's Gay Marriage Stand Good -- for the GOP

Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani sees daylight for the New York GOP in gay marriage. He tells the Post's Fred Dicker that "I think gay marriage will obviously be an issue for any Republican next year," and that the marriage equality support of high-level Democrats like Governor Paterson and Kirsten Gil ... More >>

Post Bemoans New Taxes on "Joes," "Well-Offs," and "Single Guy"

From the department of ICWUDT: the Post howls in outrage at the new state taxes to be suffered by three specific classes of New Yorkers: the "Average Joes," the "Well-Off Family," and the "Single Guy." They make their best case for the Joes, first by putting a picture of black people in their graph ... More >>

Paterson: I'm no Liar -- Honest

Here's the news break from a mercilessly brief press conference that just ended in Albany which was supposed to deal with legislative negotiations over the budget deficit: Governor Paterson insists he's no liar.Paterson got to answer all of one question about the budget when a New York Post reporter ... More >>

Caroline Kennedy Out! (Update: Maybe Not!) (Update: Out!)

Here's news: the New York Post reports Caroline Kennedy is "withdrawing her name from consideration" for Hillary Clinton's Senate seat. We would speculate that her role in this decision was more passive than portrayed. Other sources say she bowed out because of her Uncle Ted's recent illness, but wh ... More >>

Carolyn Maloney: Barrett Had "Best Story" on NY Senate Selection

Governor Paterson bailed on an interview today, complaining that he felt faint. Could be the burden of choosing Hillary Clinton's replacement -- which he said he'd do after tomorrow's inauguration -- is getting to him. Some politicians and press are beginning to tumble to what the Voice's Wayne Barr ... More >>

Marty Golden's Got Some Golden Chutzpah on Monserrate Seat

Smith Announces Senate Chairs, Then Flees

Tab Takes on Senate Deal: Eye of the Beholder

Troopers Say Gov Prejudiced Against White People

Daily Flog: Remembering the 9/11, Bush disasters; waiting for Lehman's final collapse

Ed Koch on the Bloomberg-Paterson Dust-Up: Meh

Jack Newfield, 1938-2004

How Pataki Won

Governor Strikes Strongman Pose, Wipes His Hands Clean

McCall's Mess

Is the Media Hit on His Lieutenant Governor Legitimate?

Bush-Wacked

Post ‘Wacky’ for W., Takes New Rightward Plunge