Eleanor Randolph
Cuomo, tired of 'living with' a campaign finance system he mastered, calls for an end to it
His office has said, "The only events we have done this cycle are high-donor events." More
(1)'Ridiculous': Rangel trashes 'Times' endorsements of his rivals, then and now
After an endorsement event at City Hall this afternoon, Representative Charlie Rangel said it was "ridiculous" that the New York Times endorsed his opponents in two consecutive races, and described confronting Eleanor Randolph, a member of the paper's editorial board, to describe the "formula" that could lead to such a conclusion.
(2)Andrew Cuomo, the press and the war on partisan redistricting
There were lots of things for lots of people to be unhappy about in this budget, but it was an inarguably great political feat for Cuomo to have finished on time, roughly according to the specs he's been laying out all along, and with the tersely smiling accession of the legislature to his Pax Cuomo. For the governor's next trick, maybe he'll pick a fight that ends differently, without any joint appearance with "Dean" and "Shelly" whereby he can force them to laugh about how he just rolled them. More
