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Immigrants Key In Union Election Effort
For many immigrants in the union, working on political campaigns is sometimes the first time in their lives they’ve been engaged in the democratic process.
Contest for Congress: New Jersey's 10th District
Democratic Congressman Donald Payne has been representing the 10th Congressional District since 1988. He has one of the most liberal voting records of the state's delegation and is recognized by both parties as the top expert on Africa in Congress. The 76 year-old former high school teacher and coach made ...
Six Degrees of Andrew Cuomo and Carl Paladino
Below you'll see the political networks of each of the major New York gubernatorial candidates. These network maps illustrate confirmed political ties between each of the candidates and their allies. These ties include professional relationships and reported campaign contributors--but they also include the harder-to-track social ties and informal advisory roles ...
Contest for Congress: New Jersey's 2nd District
New Jersey's 2nd Congressional District at the most southern extreme of the Garden State has been represented by Republican Frank LoBiondo for eight terms. This sprawling district that includes Cape May, Atlantic, Cumberland, Salem and portions of Gloucester went for Bush in 2004, but flippped for Obama in 2008.
Lobiondo ...
Contest for Congress: New Jersey's 1st District
The Almanac of American Politics describes Congressman Rob Andrews from New Jersey 1st District as the most prolific member of the House when it comes to drafting legisation. Andrews, a Democrat from Hadden Heights, has held the south Jersey seat since 1990 and has been a reliable ally for labor. ...
Contest for Congress: New Jersey's 13th District
The 13th has been represented by Cuban-born Democrat Albio Sires since a special election in 2006. Before coming to Congress, he served as the speaker of the NJ Assembly. Sires has a liberal voting record, but like so many Hudson County Cuban Americans, he takes a hard line against Castro's ...
Contest for Congress: New Jersey's 11th District
New Jersey's 11th District includes the entirety of the very Republican Morris County and portions of Sussex, Passaic, Essex, and Somerset Counties. Congressman Rodney Frelinghuysen, whose family has been serving in Congress since 1793, has himself been in office since 1995. He is a fiscal conservative who initially voted against ...
Contest for Congress: New Jersey's 7th District
For Republican Rep. Leonard Lance, who represent New Jersey's 7th District, winning the primary back in June meant surviving a crowded field of Tea Party inspired fellow Republicans.
The Clinton Township resident is a survivor. In 2008 Lance beat the better funded Democratic Assemblywoman Linda Stender even though Pres. Obama ...
Contest for Congress: New Jersey's 4th District
Republican Congressman Christopher Smith has been in office for 15 terms, making him the longest-serving member of New Jersey's delegation. Smith opposes the death penalty and is anti-abortion. He frequently uses the platform of his office to advance the cause of international human rights and religious freedom in China. Smith ...
Contest for Congress: New Jersey's 9th District
Democratic Congressman Steve Rothman has represented the 9th District since 1997, when he succeeded Robert Torricelli when he moved on to the U.S. Senate. Rothman was one of just a handful of Democratic insiders who recognized then-Sen. Barack Obama's ability to go all the way, and he bucked the conventional ...
Contest for Congress: New Jersey's 8th District
New Jersey's 8th Congressional district is represented by Democrat William Pascrell, 73, who also served in the State Assembly and as the Mayor of Paterson. Pascrell was first elected to the House in 1996. From his powerful post of the House Ways and Means Committee, Pascrell gave voice to trade ...
Contest for Congress: New Jersey's 5th District
The 5th District has voted to send Republican Congressman Scott Garrett to Washington four times. Garret is pro-life and is one of the most conservative members of the House. He voted against extending unemployment benefits and strongly opposes the Obama Administration's health care overhaul. Garrett, who lives in Wantage, has ...
Politics and Entertainment: New Yorkers Say Stewart's Rally Struck the Right Tone
Thousands of New Yorkers attended Saturday's so-called 'Rally for Sanity' in Washington, DC organized by late night comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
New Yorkers Head to Washington for Stewart and Colbert Rallies
Two hundred buses organized by Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington were scheduled to take 10,000 people from New York to Washington, DC on Saturday for a rally on the Mall organized by comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
What's So Special about Cuba?
For five decades the rules governing Cuban migration have been dictated by foreign policy concerns. This led officials to define them as refugees, i. e., individuals who had to escape their homeland because of a well-founded fear of persecution. Today, the social and political conditions Cubans face are not obviously ...
Broken Ballots
The power of the November 2nd ballot measure and the voters' ability to opine on issues like term limits and transparency will be dramatically reduced by the fact that they will have to know to flip over the ballot to cast their vote. The questions will be in small print ...
Obama's brand has changed so much and he has lost so much altitude with so many of the key constiuencies that he was so strong with in 2008.
How will we know if they succeed? Will we all wake up Sunday morning feeling just a little bit more sane?
Tea Party Troubadours
As if the Tea Party’s rallies didn’t irk liberals enough already, this week WNYC’s Studio 360 learned that the movement is cornering another market traditionally held by the left: protest songs.
The real question is do we want to have this marijuana operate in a black market where there's simply no control over it whatsoever, which is where the criminal syndicates and gangs organizations take over that control and thrive.
