Roger Stone

"Obama Actually Betrayed The Gay Marriage Cause"

That's what one writer says. Before you start screaming "foul" en route to resuming your gay-victory celebration, kindly check out the article by Roger Stone. It makes some points. "Once Gay Americans are through celebrating President Barack Obama's 'personal' support of Gay marriage equality, t ... More >>

Sharpton's Racket

The man who will never be mayor could decide who the next one will be

Acorn's Long Rise and Fast Fall

The GOP's other election victory

Investigating Eliot Spitzer's Own Worst Enemies in Client 9

The Kristin Davis Post-Election Party: Pretty Much What You'd Expect

​By Brianna Strange "Who's Kristin Davis?" The woman at coat check had no idea what was going on. That is probably fair, given that the crowd wasn't what you'd expect at a typical post-election party for a gubernatorial candidate. Kristin Davis isn't your typical candidate for Governor of Ne ... More >>

Seven at Seven: Would-Be Governors Debate Tonight

​New Yorkers get their first look at The Magnificent Seven gubernatorial candidates tonight, and if you can't find someone to embrace on this stage then you're a choosy beggar who doesn't even deserve true democracy and you might as well head straight for Tehran. The assortment includes a bos ... More >>

How Does Carl Paladino Get the 'Tea Party' Tag After Teabagging the Tea Partiers?

​Sometimes it's really tough to figure out what's news in New York. Everywhere in America, and on every national cable channel, it's Tea Party talk all the time. Carl Paladino runs for governor as if he's a Tea Partier and knocks off the ballot the only candidate to actually file petition ... More >>

Naked Hypocrisy: Carl Paladino's Roger Stone at the Gay Pride Parade

By Brianna Strange and Samantha Cook Carl Paladino questioned Andrew Cuomo's decision to take his daughter to New York's Gay Pride parade. Is that because Paladino knew that one of his top campaign advisers, Roger Stone, would be there exhibiting NC-17 behavior?

Roger Stone, Kristin Davis Can't Get Their Sex Scandals Straight

Sexy Roger​Since sex is the big story of the gubernatorial campaign, thanks to Carl Paladino and Roger Stone, Page Six items take on a life larger than usual. A two-inch story published there today revolves around prostitute Irma Nici and casts so wide a net it evokes all the bizarre hiji ... More >>

Roger Stone Backs Away from Paladino, but Can't Get Rid of the Stink of Scott Rothstein

​In an odd week in the gubernatorial campaign, the oddest moment was Roger Stone's NY1 appearance on Tuesday, when he appeared to be trying to put miles of distance between himself and Carl Paladino, whose September primary victory Stone engineered. This grew even odder when Palad ... More >>

The (Roger) Stone Around Carl Paladino's Neck

The Times reports that Roger Stone associates have collected a million dollars in fees so far from Carl Paladino's campaign, adding a couple of companies to the list we published last week. It's an astonishing total, and a measure of Stone's shaping influence on the Paladino campaign, reaffirmed in ... More >>

Roger Stone In a Lather Over That Spitzer Fellow

New Yorker's portrait of Roger​Cranky Roger Stone was on Fox Business Monday still in a lather over Eliot Spitzer. Fox was determined to bash its favorite john the night he debuted on CNN, so it gave Stone and his "Manhattan Madam" candidate for governor, Kristin Davis, a ten minute block ... More >>

Al Sharpton Refuses to Endorse Andrew Cuomo on NY1: The Juicy Background

​Al Sharpton filled ten minutes of NY1 air time last week refusing to endorse Andrew Cuomo, seemingly untroubled by Carl Paladino's bizarre e-mails. Instead, he heaped praise on Councilman Charles Barron, who is running against Cuomo for governor on the Freedom Party ballot line (it's free o ... More >>

Carl Paladino vs. The Tea Party: No Love Lost

​Third party politics in New York is so byzantine most voters turn off when it comes up. But Rudy Giuliani wouldn't have been mayor without the now-defunct Liberal line and George Pataki's margin over Mario Cuomo in 1994 was provided by the State Conservative Party. So the swing this week ... More >>

Carl Paladino: The Dirty Details in His Campaign Filings

​The Times and the Daily News ran stories yesterday exposing the shady conspiracy that is the Paladino For The People campaign. The $53,000 tax lien against campaign spokesman Michael Caputo unearthed by the Times got a taunting "so what" from Caputo himself. Stiffing the IRS just proved agai ... More >>

Andrew Cuomo and Black Voters -- The Key to his Father's Victory, Will They Help the Son?

​Having set the national stage for the Carl Paladino roll-out yesterday, with CNN citing the Times as their reason for interviewing him, the paper did a nosedive today on the Sienna and Marist polls that rebut the Quinnipiac numbers that were featured in a front page story the day before. Th ... More >>

Carl Paladino, Angry Man, Beats His Own Party

​No matter what your politics you have to admit Republicans yesterday went for the guy with a lot more pop in his bat -- literally. Just three months ago, all Carl Paladino, the wealthy gun-slinging landlord from Buffalo who will now carry the GOP banner for governor, could muster at the Repub ... More >>

Does Cuomo's Favored AG Candidate Have Her Own Pedro Espada Problem?

Rice​It sounds like an exotic Sandra Lee recipe: pigeon and rice. Lee is the Andrew Cuomo gal pal who took time off from her Food Network on-camera cooking duties to appear with him at his gubernatorial announcement and was famously asked by Roseanna Scotto recently on Fox Five when Andrew wo ... More >>

Is Rupert Murdoch Playing Defense Against the Eliot Spitzer Comeback Team?

​Saturday at the Tibeca Film Festival, one of the event's most buzzed about features made its debut. After all, there's nothing New Yorkers love more than art about other New Yorkers. And sex. Plus, Rupert Murdoch -- but not together. The as-of-yet untitled and unfinished Eliot Spitzer documen ... More >>

Michael Steele's Latest Bondage Play: Hooking Up With Al Sharpton

​By Cat Contiguglia Michael Steele, the embattled head of the Republican National Committee, seems to be making a last ditch effort to make some friends -- any friends -- by hooking up with Al Sharpton. Steele, who has been the subject of intense criticism for irresponsible spending, includi ... More >>

Carl Paladino Fires Up Charter Review Meet, Dubs Levy 'Pretty Boy'

​ The reward for sitting through two hours of the first hearing of the new city Charter Review Commission last night was the late arrival of Carl Paladino. The gray-haired real estate mogul from Buffalo with a voice like gravel and dark pouches of worry below his eyes is a Tea Party dream come ... More >>

Gunning for the Working Families Party

Landlords, lawyers fire at will

Barrett: Watching Al Sharpton Operate at the Percy Sutton Funeral

Sutton​Jesse Jackson was standing by the front door at Riverside Church as Percy Sutton's coffin made its way out of the church Wednesday afternoon. Jackson had opened the three-and-a-half-hour service with a poignant salute to "the tallest tree in our forest," recalling the many "points of li ... More >>

Joe Bruno Down for the Count: Guilty on Two Charges

Joe Bruno - legendary former leader of the New York State Senate - is guilty of two counts - and not guilty of five others. The jury - after seven days of deliberations and hearing repeated testimony readbacks - announced its verdict just after 4PM. The jury said that it couldn't decide on an additi ... More >>

Barrett: Let's Look at Al Sharpton's Shot at Runnin' Scared

​The last thing I want to do is get into a fight with sweet Rachel Noerdlinger, the spokeswoman for sour Al Sharpton. It's not her fault that the Rev refused to answer my questions about his bizarre bonding with Designated Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, but had Noerdlinger issue a mocking written res ... More >>

Post: Sharpton to Pay $285K FEC Fine for 2004 Campaign Violations

The Federal Election Commission has been on Reverend Al Sharpton's case for years, and this morning the Post reports that the Feds will soon announce a deal with the minister, whereby he will pay $285,000 in fines for illegal handling of funds in his hilarious 2004 Democratic Presidential campaign. ... More >>

New Hooker Says Eliot Spitzer Likes Kinky Sex: Post

Eliot Spitzer and Roger Stone

Cuomo's Gal Friday

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

Remembering Roger Stone Fondly

The Right Rallies For Al

Machiavellian minister wins DNC subsidies and plots mayoral moves

N.Y.'s Power Couple

Reverend Al Sharpton and Rupert Murdoch join forces to fight television technology

The Sex Scandal That Put Bush in the White House

How GOP operative Roger Stone destroyed the Reform Party in the 2000 presidential campaign

Inside Bush's Indian Bureau

A labyrinth of lobbyists is manufacturing millions

A Dirty Trickster's Bush Bonanza

The man who stopped Miami recount makes gaming millions

We Need You

It's Time to Call for New Black Leadership

Sharpton's Cynical Campaign Choice

Reverend Al Dumps Jesse's Best for Bush's Buddy

Letters

Sleeping With the GOP

A Bush Covert Operative Takes Over Al Sharpton's Campaign

Corrections

New Hampshire Down to the Wire

Kerry and Dean Tied; Edwards Is the Sleeper

Nation

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