Topic: Bob Straniere
With Democratic leaders settling on City Councilman Michael McMahon as their candidate and Republicans having an exasperating time recruiting a nominee (one candidate they settled on suddenly died), the consensus was that the last district in New York City to send a ...
The House defeated the bailout bill. [A.P.] The debate they had, however, was almost a real one, writes Eve Fairbanks, and addressed questions like, "Do voters send congressmen to the House to enact things, or to stand athwart very imperfect progress ...
The chair of the Staten Island Conservative Party is reportedly going to back the Republican nominee for Congress, Bob Straniere. [Staten Island Advance] A columnist in Queens wonders in Michael Bloomberg is facing another big defeat with the Willets Point redevelopment plan ...
There's been yet another bizarre turn in the GOP's eternal quest to find a candidate for the key House seat in New York's 13th district, which is expected to be one of this fall's most hotly-contested races.The ...
Former Republican Assemblyman Bob Straniere - who was unseated in a primary back in 2004 - tonight was selected to become the Republicans candidate to run for the congressional seat vacated by Vito Fossella.The Staten Island Advance has the story.The party originally ...
The Washington Post reports that Charlie Rangel is soliciting donations for an academic institution (named after himself) from companies that have business before the House Ways and Means Committee, which Rangel chairs. Rangel decided to stop using one of his four rent-stabilized ...