City’s biggest municipal union makes endorsements
Posted by Ivan Pereira in Assembly, Congress, District 10, District 10, District 11, District 14, District 15, District 16, District 23, District 24, District 26, District 28, District 30, District 35, District 37, District 38, District 39, District 6, District 9, State Senate, U.S. House on September 3, 2010 | No Comments
Representatives from DC 37, which represents 125,000 New York workers in various sectors and 5,000 retirees, released an incumbent-heavy list of endorsements of political candidates running for office in Queens and throughout the city, but also withheld its endorsement in several contested races.
Stavisky raises more funds than Dem rivals
Posted by Connor Adams Sheets in District 16, State Senate on September 2, 2010 | No Comments
Incumbent state Sen. Toby Stavisky (D-Whitestone) has solidified a strong fund-raising lead over her two Democratic primary challengers, but her lone Conservative opponent has not filed the most recent required financial disclosure form with the state Board of Elections.
Stavisky stands by her record during forums
Posted by Connor Adams Sheets in District 16, State Senate on September 2, 2010 | 1 Comment
For the first couple months of the campaign, state Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky, Oakland Gardens attorney John Messer and New York Lottery winner and former chemistry professor Isaac Sasson of Flushing largely avoided appearing at events together, but they verbally sparred Aug. 24 at a MinKwon Center-sponsored event, then again at the Aug. 25 Queensboro Hill Civic Association meeting.
Freelancers Union releases full slate of endorsements
Posted by Connor Adams Sheets in Assembly, Attorney General, District 11, District 15, District 16, District 25, District 26, District 28, District 35, District 36, District 39, Governor, State Comptroller, Statewide Offices on August 13, 2010 | No Comments
Freelancers Union announced this week the Queens candidates it is endorsing in this year’s primary and general election campaigns, siding with politicians it believes “share their commitment to modernizing labor laws to meet the needs of the growing and evolving independent workforce.”
Forest Hills pols want landmarking study for West Side Tennis Club stadium
Posted by Anna Gustafson in Assembly, City Council, City Offices, Congress, District 16, District 28, District 29, District 9, State Senate, U.S. House on August 12, 2010 | 1 Comment
“We love that the tennis club is our neighbor,” Weiner said. “In the midst of rural Queens, a stone’s throw from the Long Island Expressway, we have grass tennis courts. We have a place that has history that goes back generations. As there are conversations about how to deal with the stadium, the community needs to have a voice.”
Anonymously run Web site devoted to anti-Stavisky rants
Posted by Connor Adams Sheets in District 16, State Senate on August 12, 2010 | No Comments
State Sen. Toby Stavisky (D-Whitestone) may have a Captain Ahab on her trail. A mysterious website, The Stavisky Report, has been slamming the longtime legislator for several months with a slew of insults and allegations.
Queens pols continue talks over SUNY bill
Posted by Connor Adams Sheets in Assembly, District 11, District 16, State Senate on August 12, 2010 | No Comments
One of the final sticking points keeping the new state budget from passing in the final days of negotiations was a set of higher education proposals which were left out of the final document. Negotiations continue, however, according to Sen. Toby Stavisky (D-Whitestone), chairwoman of the Senate Higher Education Committee, and a set of workable solutions to some of the most significant problems facing the state’s higher education system may work its way into law when the state Legislature reconvenes in mid-September.
Stavisky vows re-election bid will be ‘hands-on’
Posted by Connor Adams Sheets in District 16, State Senate on August 5, 2010 | No Comments
When she won election in 1999, Toby Stavisky (D-Whitestone) became the first woman from Queens to be elected to the state Senate. Eleven years later, she is still in her post, where she says she hopes to continue fighting to keep college affordable for New Yorkers as chairwoman of the Senate Higher Education Committee, to protect seniors through her work on the Senate Aging Committee and to help constituents through her district office work.
Padavan outpacing Avella in money race
Posted by Nathan Duke and Connor Adams Sheets in District 11, District 16, State Senate on July 23, 2010 | No Comments
Frank Padavan, who was first elected to the Senate in 1972, is facing off against Tony Avella, a 2009 mayoral candidate who was elected to the Council in 2001, in a hotly contested race that could prove to be one of the fall’s most acrimonious.
Queens officials and candidates pledge reform in Albany
Posted by Anna Gustafson in Assembly, Congress, District 10, District 11, District 13, District 14, District 15, District 16, District 22, District 23, District 24, District 26, District 28, District 36, District 38, U.S. House on July 22, 2010 | No Comments
Senators, Assembly and Congress members and those running for those positions have signed pledges on Wednesday by New York Uprising, a non-partisan, independent group formed by Koch that has a mission to “end corruption in Albany and reinstate the public’s faith in government by offering real, honest and sensible solutions that legislators and candidates can implement, adhere to and be held accountable for executing once elected or re-elected to office.”
Addabbo raises $126G for Senate re-election
Posted by Rebecca Henely, Howard Koplowitz and Connor Adams Sheets in District 13, District 15, District 16, State Senate on July 22, 2010 | No Comments
While nobody knows for certain who will win the 2010 elections, the western Queens races for state Senate are marked by clear leads of the incumbents over their challengers when it comes to raising and spending money.
Sasson vows to best Stavisky
Posted by Connor Adams Sheets in District 16, State Senate on July 7, 2010 | 12 Comments
Philanthropist, community activist and Democratic candidate Isaac Sasson is like the old New York Lottery slogan in it to win it this time in the race for state Sen. Toby Stavisky’s (D-Whitestone) seat.
