2012
Speaking for Obama and Romney, Hickenlooper and Walker won't touch gun control, either
On Sunday morning, David Gregory tried to coax two governors, acting as surrogates for the respective presidential campaigns, to touch the most conspicuous third rail of the 2012 campaign.
"It has struck me that there is not a more robust debate in this campaign about gun violence in America and what to do about that," he said to Govs. John Hickenlooper of Colorado and Scott Walker of Wisconsin. More
Soon-to-be congressman Hakeem Jeffries is giving all his money away
Hakeem Jeffries isn't a congressman yet, but he's already making lots of friends in Washington.
The Brooklyn assemblyman has raised more than $1.3 million for his congressional race to date, but he's not hoarding much it for future challenges.
With just over a week until Election Day, when he's expected to win handily in an overwhelmingly Democratic district, Jeffries has spent his cash on hand down to just $55,000, according to his most recent filing this week with the Federal Election Commission. More
The surrogates: Schumer to Florida, Quinn to Philadelphia, Grimm to Staten Island
Andrew Cuomo is reportedly headed down to Florida tomorrow, weather permitting, to campaign for President Obama. Cuomo's is the most closely watched surrogacy in New York, but other elected officials are making travel plans too. Senator Chuck Schumer will be traveling to Florida later this month, at the request of the Obama campaign. More
Bill Clinton rallies for his former aide, against Hayworth
Bill Clinton will headline a rally for congressional challenger Sean Patrick Maloney in Westchester this weekend.
Clinton has been active this cycle, as a top surrogate to President Obama, and in House races across the country. Last week, he held a joint rally for incumbent Reps. Kathy Hochul and Louise Slaughter in Rochester. More
Polls: Obama helps with the House, at least in New York
President Obama's October slide is hurting Democratic candidates across the country and dimming the party's hopes of re-taking the House, according to pollsters and operatives who talked to Politico.
But in New York, the president's coattails seem to be getting longer. More
Cuomo does the Democratic thing
Governor Andrew Cuomo is doing the partisan thing today, campaigning for congressional Democratic candidates on Long Island and upstate. More
Cuomo prepares for Florida, Baldeo responds to critics
"Bloomberg also confessed to not knowing the difference between a blog and a newspaper when bemoaning the declining quality of journalism." [Christopher Robbins]
"Pretty much every reporter who's ever covered City Hall pounding heads into desks over Atlantic article, it appears." [Ben Smith]
1199 SEIU did an independent expenditure to help Council candidate Andy King in the Bronx. [NYCCFB]
(1)Schumer and Gillibrand dole out big money to the DSCC
Chuck Schumer isn't raising all that money for nothing.
Schumer collected $402,000 in the third quarter, despite not having another election until 2016, but he also gave away a whopping $1 million donation to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
His junior colleague, Kirsten Gillibrand, gave $250,000 to the committee, making them two of the more generous donors to the Democratic effort to protect the party's majority in the Senate. More
Cuomo, on 'standby' for Obama, will stump for some congressional Democrats
Governor Andrew Cuomo said this morning that the Obama campaign has yet to decide where to deploy him on behalf of the president's re-election, and that he'll be campaigning for congressional candidates in the meantime.
"I'm going to go where they need me," Cuomo said in one of his regular appearances on Fred Dicker's radio show. "They haven't given me a definitive schedule. They're talking about Ohio, they're talking about Virginia." More
Bloomberg: Romney has no values, Obama has no bin Laden cred
Mayor Michael Bloomberg thinks Mitt Romney has no values and President Obama shouldn't get credit for killing Osama bin Laden.
Romney "walked away from everything he did," Bloomberg told the Atlantic.
'Sound familiar?' Bill Clinton's straight-to-camera ad for Obama
Bill Clinton has cut a new ad for President Obama's re-election campaign titled "He's Got It Right."
In the straight-to-camera spot, Clinton cheerfully tells viewers how Obama's economic plans mirror the ones he successfully employed in the 1990s.
"The stuff some folks are saying about President Obama sounds kind of familiar," Clinton says. More
(1)Bloomberg PAC won't be helping Scott Brown
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's new super PAC won't be helping Scott Brown in Massachusetts.
"We will not be spending in that race," Howard Wolfson, the former Democratic operative who is managing the mayor's last-minute spending blitz on behalf of moderate candidates, told me this morning. More
(1)Bloomberg super PAC's first recipients: Dan Maffei and Val Demings
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's new super PAC made its first expenditures late yesterday, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission.
The Independence USA PAC spent a total of $94,000 on two House candidates: Val Demings in Florida, and New York's own Dan Maffei. More
Polls: In Indiana, Mourdock gives the GOP another Senate headache
Democrats were feeling pretty good about their chances in Indiana's Senate race, even before last night's debate between Tea Party candidate Richard Mourdock and Democratic Rep. Joe Donnelly.
A Global Strategy Group poll released yesterday showed Donnelly leading by two points, thanks mostly to independents who were skeptical of Mourdock's proudly uncompromising approach to governing. More
Conservative Party spends on Wendy Long robocalls
New York's Conservative Party is doing what it can to help out its candidate for U.S. Senate, Wendy Long.
The group reported spending $24,000 today on robocalls to benefit Long, who overwhelmingly won the party's endorsement earlier this year. More
