Frank Padavan
Gennaro's Campaign Has Much More Cash on Hand Than Padavan's
More from Bharat Ayyar, who looked into the race between Republican State Senator Frank Padavan and Democratic challenger Jim Gennaro.
As of the July filing, here's how much money they have on hand:
Padavan - $116,642.20
Gennaro - $406,965.01
It's surprising that Gennaro is raising so much more money than Padavan, since people don't see Padavan as being as vulnerable to a Democratic challenger as some of his Republican colleagues in the State Senate, like Serf Maltese, Caesar Trunzo, and Joe Robach. And even thought the Republican State Senate Campaign Committee has a lot more money than their Democratic counterpart, having to pour money into Padavan's race would just be one more drain on their resources. read more »
Cuomo, Lentol and Padavan Fight Movie Pirating and Maybe Terrorists
Andrew Cuomo just announced he’s creating a new position in his office to fight intellectual property theft like pirating movies,which Cuomo called the “new high-tech form of organized crime in the State of New York.”
At a press conference in his Broadway office just now, Cuomo said, “It is theft of a work product. It is widespread. It is growing. It is organized. It costs New Yorkers jobs and money.” Cuomo said the problem costs the state $2 billion and 140,000 jobs per year. read more »
Rangel Becomes a Negative Ad in Queens G.O.P. Fight
You know things have gotten weird in a small local primary when Republicans start putting images of Charlie Rangel on their literature.
This piece, which I heard is circulating in Queens, is linking the Queens County Republican Chairman, Phil Ragusa, to Rangel, who thinks Dick Cheney has mental problems.
The mail piece references a 2002 donation of $1000 that Ragusa made to Rangel’s committee and notes that Rangel help engineer the Democratic takeover of congress in last year’s election.
Ragusa, a CPA, is running this year for a male-designated state Republican committee post in the 26th Assembly District. The only other candidate for that slot is Peter Boudouvas, an aide to Republican state Senator Frank Padavan.
The mail may not derail’s Ragusa’s election to that position tomorrow, but it’s certain to fuel the seemingly endless fight for control of the Queens G.O.P. county organization, which has been going on for years and involves technical election law stuff I don't entirely understand. (Critics like John and Bart Haggerty--with the help of Democratic election lawyer Martin Connor--say the way the county counts votes is screwy.)
Credit for kicking off this latest skirmish goes to former congressional candidate-turned-blogger Jun Policarpio, who wrote about the Rangel donation about a week ago. read more »
A Conservative Strategy on Marijuana
Here's a pro-medicinal marijuana ad that appeared in a local Brooklyn paper this week, targeting Conservative-Republican state Senator Marty Golden, and featuring Joel Peacock, a member of the state’s Conservative Party.
The ad says that Peacock suffers from “chronic, severe pain“ from a 2001 car accident and that medicinal marijuana offers him effective and cheap relief.
The ad targeting Golden is one of eight ads aimed at Republican state Senators across New York, which also feature polling information that supporters say proves the bill is more popular among voters than lawmakers think.
The other state senators are Carl Marcellino Kemp Hannon, Dean Skelos, all from Long Island, Frank Padavan and Serph Maltese of Queens, Thomas Morahan of Rockland County and Dale Volker from upstate.
More on the campaign after the jump. read more »
The Padavan and Wright Show
Here's a photo of WNBC's Jay DeDapper interviewing state Senator Frank Padavan and Assemblyman Keith Wright about congestion pricing and all the wheeling and dealing up in Albany.
Which should be fun to hear about since Padavan, as a Republican, won't have had much nice to say about the Eliot Spitzer's handling of things, and Wright has begun trashing the governor too.
The interview was taped earlier today and will air on Sunday.
Weiner Guards Giuliani's Border Tradition
Yesterday, one of the quirkiest traditions returned to a major Memorial Day Parade that starts a few blocks inside Nassau County before winding its way through the Little Neck-Douglaston section of Queens.
“I refused to march on the Nassau side,” Weiner told me. He stood on the border, next to the 'Welcome to Nassau' sign and waited for the parade to get into New York City territory before joining in. A person who has been marching in that parade for a couple of years told me that the most notable politician to do that in the past was Rudy Giuliani.
Also attending the parade were regular marchers Mike Bloomberg Frank Padavan, Chuck Schumer, Christine Quinn, Bill Thompson, Adolfo Carrion, Eric Gioia, Melinda Katz, David and Mark Weprin, and Peter Vallone, Sr.
Bruno Flacks Up in the City
Bruno Flacks Up in the City
Human Trafficking
The resulting exchange between the two legislators last year went something like this:
Sabini:Padavan:So I offer this amendment not in a sense that Senator Padavan's bill is bad -- no, it's good, and I intend to vote for it -- but rather to go to the victim's side of the equation and to get the state to step up to the plate and say we have to do something for these folks. And the amendment is offered in the spirit of helping those victims, Madam President.
-- Azi PaybarahNow, we have a difference of opinion. I think our Division of Criminal Justice Services, the Attorney General's office, our police departments, the federal agencies with whom they are to cooperate under this statute, are sufficient to do the job if we give them the law and the tools to do it with. We need not set up a new entity to supersede what is already in place in terms of structure and assets. That's where we differ.
