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• Old Habits Die Hard

  
  The Daily Politics - NY Daily News Blogs — Authority: 654
  When the 2010 legislative session gets underway next month, a host of lawmakers will engage in the time-honored tradition of holding political fundraisers to mark the occasion. And so, apparently, will former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno. Two Bruno loyalists, Albany real estate developer John Nigro and ...
  1 week ago

• From: The Daily Politics

  
  NY Daily News — Authority: 885
  Heres the ever-quotable Prof. Doug Muzzio expounding at City Hall on the wherefores and whys of Rudy Giulianis decision to take a pass on 2010 and e
  2 weeks ago

• Give Em Hell Paterson?

  
  The Daily Politics - NY Daily News Blogs — Authority: 654
  Gov. David Paterson today fired back at the Senate Democrats new top political aide, Josh Cherwin, who told me the governors low poll numbers are a "major concern" as he gears up to try to retain the majority in 2010. "Theyll never win without me because I gave them $3 million three years ago," Paterson told ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bruno Sentencing Bumped Up

  
  The Daily Politics - NY Daily News Blogs — Authority: 654
  Former Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno won’t have to wait as long as originally thought to learn whether he’s headed to prison, the DNs Glenn Blain reports. Citing an unspecified "conflict" in the courts calendar, U.S. District Judge Gary Sharpe has moved Bruno’s scheduling from Wednesday, March 31st to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bernie Kerik Buffs Up

  
  The Awl — Authority: 759
  Look! Bernie Kerik is totally pumped for his prison stint! “[Keriks] been working out a lot,” said a source close to the ex-lawman, who added that Kerik’s been hitting the weights to pass the time while under home confinement. Kerik — a former jail warden and city correction commissioner who pleaded guilty ...
  2 weeks ago

• Valeksy: Just Talking About Reform Is Reform

  
  The Daily Politics - NY Daily News Blogs — Authority: 654
  It is a little unclear at this point whether the bipartisan committee-sharing idea floated by the Senate Democrats is actually going to bear fruit. Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos and Sen. John Bonacic appeared to throw cold water on the concept , insisting in separate statements that letting a few minority ...
  2 weeks ago

• Frank Sinatras Birthday

  
  Knickerbocker Village — Authority: 136
  None but Brave He would have been 94 on December 12th. My cousin Melissas birthday was on the 13th along with nice guy actor and Brooklyns own Steve Buscemi. Patsys had a Sinatra celebration. Foodies and die-hard New Yorkers love to get into verbal scuffles over ...
  3 weeks ago

• New Yorkers Divided On Senate Division, Favor More Disclosure

  
  The Daily Politics - NY Daily News Blogs — Authority: 654
  The latest (and last in 2009) poll from Siena finds 36 percent of New Yorkers actually like seeing the state Senate so closely divided. The same number say they would prefer to see the Democrats grow their razor-thin, 32-member majority next fall, while only 23 percent want the GOP to improve their numbers. Voters ...
  3 weeks ago

• On Ethics Reform Failure, Paterson Points At The Legislature

  
  The Daily Politics - NY Daily News Blogs — Authority: 654
  When all else fails, blame the Legislature. Gov. David Paterson, who appears to have staked his political resurrection on running against the Senate and Assembly, rejected claims by good government advocates that he is failing to provide leadership on ethics reform in scandal-scarred Albany, laying blame - where ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ravitch: Fiscal Crisis Should Trump Ethics Crisis In Albany

  
  The Daily Politics - NY Daily News Blogs — Authority: 654
  Prior to Gov. David Patersons speech on the economy at the Museum of American Finance today, LG Richard Ravitch groused that the conviction of former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno on corruption charges has received more media coverage than the states fiscal troubles and the governors efforts to address them. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Servant of Two Masters

  
  The Daily Gotham - grassroots news and activism for new yorkers — Authority: 120
  Joe Brunos recent conviction points up the need for serious change in the laws covering our legislators behavior. Three years ago I wrote the following piece; it turns out to have been ahead of its time. Read on ... but first, if you want to make a difference, go to ReBootNY and make a contribution. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Filling The Bruno Gap

  
  The Daily Politics - NY Daily News Blogs — Authority: 654
  Hoping to capitalize on the call for ethics reform that followed the guilty verdict in ex-Senate Majority Leader Joe Brunos trial, Sens. Dan Squadron and Eric Schneiderman are circulating a new bill to close what Squadron dubbed the "Bruno gap". The bill, which comes on top of a comprehensive reform package ...
  4 weeks ago

• Bruno Fallout Continues

  
  The Wonkster — Authority: 437
  Former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno resigned his post as CEO of CMA Consulting Services today. Bruno took over the job last year after resigning from the Senate. CMA has many lucrative contracts with the state and the Times Union reports that those contracts could have been in jeopardy because of Bruno’s ...
  4 weeks ago

• Bruno Resigns CMA

  
  The Daily Politics - NY Daily News Blogs — Authority: 654
  Former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno is now jobless. In the wake of his guilty verdict on federal corruption charges, Bruno announced today (via press release) that he has resigned his post as CEO of CMA Consulting Services in Latham - the technology firm he joined after retiring from his elected post last ...
  4 weeks ago

• Bloomberg On Bruno Verdict: Very Sad

  
  The Daily Politics - NY Daily News Blogs — Authority: 654
  Mayor Bloomberg, who was the single largest individual contributor to the Senate Republicans while Joe Bruno led the conference, called yesterdays guilty verdict against his old political friend and ally is "very sad." "Joe Bruno is really somebody that has helped this city," Bloomberg said during his Q&A; with ...
  4 weeks ago

• Running Against Bruno

  
  The Daily Politics - NY Daily News Blogs — Authority: 654
  It took less than four hours after a jury deemed Joe Bruno guilty on two of eight federal corruption charges for a Democratic challenger to one of his former Republican colleagues to make the disgraced ex-majority leader a campaign issue. Regina Calceterra , a Democratic consultant and corporate fraud lawyer who is ...
  4 weeks ago

• There But For The Grace of God...

  
  The Daily Politics - NY Daily News Blogs — Authority: 654
  As DN Capitol Bureau Chief Ken Lovett wrote this morning , former Senate Majority Leader Joe Brunos guilty verdict should send "a chill down the spine of pols in anything-goes Albany." Although the cynics among us familiar with the collective short-term memory loss often suffered by state lawmakers when it comes to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Albany Pol Found Guilty Of Being Albany Pol

  
  The Awl — Authority: 759
  Highly indictable former New York State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno was found guilty on two counts in his corruption trial yesterday. Bruno, who went six-for-eight on the charges, faces up to 20 years in prison and $250,000 in fines for each of the felony counts upon he was convicted, but it is unlikely that ...
  4 weeks ago

• Joe Bruno indicted: List of corruption in Albany…

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 446
  A story at Elizabeth Benjamin’s Daily News blog showed that Former State Senator Joseph Bruno was convicted of 2 of 8 counts.-Kenneth Lovett of the Daily News did an interesting recap on disgraced elected officials in Albany:(excerpt from) The Daily NewsJoe Bruno, Eliot Spitzer and Alan Hevesi all part of club of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Brown, Collins & Bruno: A three-ring circus

  
  Outrages & Insights — Authority: 122
  Lets catch up with what our fearless leaders are up to. First up, Mayor Byron Brown, who has decided he wants to take back the parks, but is being coy about his intentions for the Olmsted system. It seems strange, even by City Hall standards, that the mayor would want to mess with what appears to be the unqualified ...
  4 weeks ago

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