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Speaker Silver and Civil Rights Groups Defend Schneiderman’s Prerogative
PolitickerNY Albany While Andrew Cuomo left open the possibility this afternoon that someone besides the Attorney General might defend last year's law to count prisoners in their home districts against a Republican legal challenge, Assembly Speaker
Read More »In prison suit, should Schneiderman recuse himself? (updated)
Times Union Albany Should Attorney General Eric Schneiderman recuse himself from defending the state Department of Corrections and the Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment in a lawsuit brought by a nine GOP state
Read More »Skelos Defends Prison Count Lawsuit; Schneiderman To Defend The State (Updated)
Politics on the Hudson Albany Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, R-Nassau County, predicted that his Senate Republican colleagues would be successful in their lawsuit to block a state law that would count prisoners in legislative redistricting
Read More »NY’s Attorney General Schneiderman: ‘This Is Our Moment’
The Nation As a longtime supporter of Eric Schneiderman, it was solace for the political soul, on a grim election night, to mark his victory as New York State's attorney general. His win is one
Read More »Primary Choices
Times Union Albany Some folks have asked so here are my choices for tomorrow’s Democratic primary in Albany. No surprise–I support Neil Breslin for State Senate. Have written about it before and been pilloried for a. doing
Read More »Schneiderman Gets An Endorsement On Rice’s Home Turf
The New York Observer Long Island Eric Schneiderman is out today with an endorsement from Ricardo Montano, a Suffolk County legislator and former assistant attorney general. The endorsement is significant because Rice is going to need a
Read More »Eric Schneiderman’s Base does not include Andrew Cuomo
Capital New York Albany He's a former board member of the left-leaning Citizen Action, as he reminded the three dozen liberal activists and elected officials who have bucked the county's political machine to back him, and
Read More »Eric Schneiderman Supporters Campaign In Kathleen Rice Country
NY Daily News Long Island A day after Nassau County DA and attorney general hopeful Kathleen Rice bashed rival Eric Schneiderman as soft on crime -- and the two camps got into it over a law
Read More »In Syracuse, Schneiderman To Collect Endorsement From Local SEIU Chapter
City Hall Syracuse Eric Schneiderman will continue building his upstate beachhead beyond Western New York for his attorney general campaign on Tuesday with an endorsement by Local 200 United, the Syracuse chapter of the Service Employees
Read More »Dinkins and Western New York for Schneiderman
LoHud Blog (Gannett) Hudson Valley, NY By Nick Reisman They come from opposite ends of the state, but they agree on making Sen. Eric Schneiderman attorney general. Former New York City Mayor David Dinkins is backing Schneiderman for
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