Steve Israel

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 >>

Homeless Genius Teen Invited to State of the Union

Last week, Runnin' Scared brought you news of Samantha Garvey, a 17-year-old aspiring marine biologist from Long Island. Garvey gained nationwide attention when reports surfaced that she and her family were living in a homeless shelter -- and that she'd risen to become a semifinalist in Intel's s ... More >>

Nancy Pelosi, Other Top Democrats Call For Anthony Weiner's Resignation (Update)

​Though she's heretofore stopped short of calling for Anthony Weiner to resign, Democratic minority leader Nancy Pelosi is changing her tune in light of allegations that Weiner corresponded with a teenage girl online. She and other top Democrats -- Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debb ... More >>

Barrett: How Will the Ballot Police Protect Kirsten Gillibrand from the Harold Ford Invasion?

Kirsten's protector is ever vigilant​Thank God for the ballot police. But for them, five or six elected Democrats would've already committed the crime of running against Kirsten Gillibrand. Now we have the man Harry Reid obviously mistook for Barack Obama, Harold Ford Jr., illegally panhandl ... More >>

Harold Ford Jr. "Strongly Considering" Senate Race; Conservatives Give Him a Hand

High Democratic operatives warned Steve Israel and others off challenges to Kirsten Gillibrand, but Harold Ford is unbossed, dammit, at least by the current bosses. The New York Post gleefully affords Harold Ford Jr. a front-page spot from which he announces, "I am strongly considering running for t ... More >>

A Ford in Senate Future? Memphis Flyer Wants Gillibrand's Job

​Harold Ford Jr., the African-American Wall Street exec who likes to come across as the hottest cat from Memphis since Elvis, apparently really does want to snatch that U.S. senate seat away from Kirsten Gillibrand. And there's a fat slice of the permanent government that's ready and eager to ... More >>

Bloomberg and Thompson: The (Really) Odd Couple

Now it can be told: The surprising ties between the billionaire mayor and the poor slob who ran against him

Senate report: Bush, Rumsfeld let bin Laden get away

​The hot topic in Washington this week is President Obama's upcoming speech at West Point on Tuesday, which is expected to call for deploying 30-35,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. Just ahead of the Sunday news shows, the Senate Foreign Relations committee chaired by John Kerry has releas ... More >>

Scozzafava Tells WashPost She Cried, Was Called "Lesbian" Before Rolling to Dems

​Last week's NY-23 race, hilarious while in progress, gets a pretty funny sidebar in the Washington Post's follow-up with Dede Scozzafava, who was hounded out of the race by national conservatives and whose endorsement of Democrat Bill Owens probably won him the election. The Post says durin ... More >>

NY-23: Republican Scozzafava officially endorses Democrat Owens

​It's official. In a statement released to the Watertown Daily Times, Dede Scozzafava urging her supporters to support her former Democratic opponent over de facto Republican candidate Doug Hoffman, who she declined to mention. A source told the Times that Scozzafava and her husband, who swi ... More >>

Times: Carolyn Maloney Won't Run Against Gillibrand

It looks like Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney isn't going to run against Kirsten Gillibrand after all. Though she seemed hot to challenge the appointed senator in 2011 from the left, various forces conspired against her: President Obama began leaning on potential Gillibrand challengers, dissuadin ... More >>

Carolyn Maloney Will Challenge Gillibrand in 2011

Despite a White House campaign that convinced Steve Israel, Carolyn McCarthy, and other Democrats not to challenge Kirsten Gillibrand's Senate seat in 2011 -- yes, they're being that cautious that early -- Carolyn Maloney has stubbornly refused to rule out a run against Gillibrand, whom she consider ... More >>

Barrett: Schumer Protects Gillibrand from a Primary Challenge Citing His Record On Such Matters -- So We Checked That Record

Image from Howie Klein's "Down With Tyranny" blog (downwithtyranny.blogspot.com)As my colleague Tom Robbins explained last month, Chuck Schumer has been flexing his  considerable muscle to make sure that no elected Democrat challenges Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, the accidental incumbent, in a 2 ... More >>

After White House Presses Maloney, McCarthy Backs Off Race Against Gillibrand

Yesterday some people were saying Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (pictured) was about to confirm a run against Kirsten Glllibrand for the Democratic Senatorial nomination in 2010. Maloney's response: "Where did you get that from? It's not true." Today a story went around about how Maloney either got ... More >>

Obama the Political Fixer Works New York's Senate Primary

The president gets a hand in the back room

Gillibrand Grabs More Way-Early Endorsements, Scares Off Stringer and Suozzi

We guess it's a new trend, at least for Democratic officeholders whom Obama wants left alone: Since NARAL delivered their endorsement to Kirsten Gillibrand -- who isn't even running until 2010 -- she's been getting more early expression of support. Local Congresspeople Yvette Clark and Michael McMah ... More >>

Obama Speaks -- and Steve Israel Quits Race Against Gillibrand

It all happened so fast. Earlier we told you that House members from New York Carolyn McCarthy, Carolyn Maloney and Steve Israel were threatening to take down Kirsten Gillibrand in 2010. A day later, NARAL gave Kirsten Gillibrand its endorsement -- about a year early. Today Politico carries a stat ... More >>

She's Better on Guns, But NY House Dems Hassle Gillibrand Anyway

In a weirdly non-collegial display among New York legislators of the same party, House members Carolyn McCarthy, Carolyn Maloney and Steve Israel took time out of their presentation to reporters of their "No Fly, No Buy" bill to hassle new Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. "I don't know what she stands fo ... More >>

Bloomberg Maneuvers to Crown a Kennedy

Who's Caroline's daddy?

Hillary Replacement Series Drags On

With the Caroline Kennedy boomlet faltering, also-runs are coming into the spotlight. The Times has noted the suspiciously campaign-like activity of Representatives Steve Israel and Carolyn Maloney, and today says Andrew Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco has been obliquely bad-mouthing Kennedy to union lead ... More >>

Happy holidays: Madoffs shop, Gov. Paterson gallivants

Paterson's Possible Picks: The Short List

Pols Feasting on Pork

A roundup of earmarks in the latest Defense bill

Mama Warbucks

Hillary Clinton brings home the dollars for New York's defense contractors

A Guide to Key Congressional Races

The Rich, the Mighty, and the Hopeful