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Tue Aug 12, 2008 at 11:14:46 AM EDT
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(Lots of info in this post. This smells pretty bad. - promoted by phillip anderson)
Dan Janison at the Newsday Spin Cycle posted this:
Ruling that Sen. Craig Johnson's campaign violated proper petitioning practices, State Supreme Court Justice Karen V. Murphy has thrown the Nassau Democrat off the Working Families Party's November ballot line. If the ruling stands, it will be the second time this election season that Johnson lost a minor-party endorsement that he'd appeared to have secured. The first occurred when the GOP-aligned state Independence Party recently changed its bylaws as a prelude to overruling its county committee to nominate the Republican challenger, Barbara Donno.
Now all this seems like normal petition stuff, until you realize who the judge is in this case. Karen V. Murphy was before ascending to the bench, the Republican County Clerk in Nassau. More to the point, the current County Clerk, Maureen O'Connell, was Judge Murphy's close political ally and her hand picked successor to the Clerk's office. If the name Maureen O'Connell rings a bell, she is the same Maureen O'Connell who lost the special election to Craig Johnson in SD 7.
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Tue Aug 05, 2008 at 01:21:57 AM EDT
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Well, The Newsday Spincycle had this sad story from SD 7.
Nassau GOP Senate candidate's son accused of DWI
The son of Barbara Donno, the Republican candidate running against Sen. Craig Johnson, was arrested for DWI and pot possession. His photo is on our DWI "wall of shame." Some of the early details are here.
IF this charge holds up in court: Relevance to the race? Impact? Should there be? Your take requested, since we have our doubts. But of course, it's in the news stream now...He appears in her campaign ad and has been active in the campaign.
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Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 20:36:04 PM EST
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(Important stuff from the field. Be sure to check out Nassau Voter Protection tomorrow for info on what's happening at the polling places and to report anything dodgy you may see. Also, I'll be blogging from the district all day tomorrow. I'll have interviews, pics, video, vicious rumors and as much about potential dirty tricks as I can muster. - promoted by lipris)
Over the weekend, Republican State Chair Joe Mondello tipped his hand and publicly promised to engage in a campaign of voter intimidation in the SD7 special election tomorrow with blanket requests for voter identification.
In response, the County Attorney's office instructed the Board of Elections to tell poll workers the special circumstances under the law where poll workers were to request identification:
"I am requesting that you immediately notify all special election poll workers and inspectors that they must not request identification of any person seeking to vote, unless there is an "ID" notification next to the bar code for the voter name on the registration poll ledger prepared by the Nassau County Board of Elections."
The Republican response to these instructions was to ignore the County Attorney's directive.
Now a Nassau County Supreme Court Judge is ordering Republicans to comply with election law and not intimidate voters in tomorrow's special election. The Nassau County police will deliver notice of the court order to every polling place in the Seventh State Senate district when the polls open at 6am on Tuesday.
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Sun Feb 04, 2007 at 10:34:50 AM EST
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(Super Sunday indeed. - promoted by lipris)
Craig Johnson (D-WFP) is setting a blistering campaign pace leading up to Election Day on Feb 6 as he campaigns for an open State Senate seat in New York's Seventh District on Long Island.
Starting this morning, Craig launched the "Moving New York Forward - 33 Stops in 33 Hours" tour. He's campaigning in every one of the 33 villages in the Seventh District from this morning until the election starts, leaving no stone unturned to Get Out the Vote. The tour will take Craig to morning bagel stops, religious services, Super Bowl parties, and popular lunch hour spots.
Governor Eliot Spitzer and U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer will campaign with Craig Johnson at different stops during the day.
Come out and meet Craig and help the campaign Get Out The Vote!
The Sunday schedule is after the jump.
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Tue Jan 30, 2007 at 20:54:26 PM EST
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The New York Professional Nurses Union (NYPNU) has endorsed Craig Johnson over Maureen O'Connell, an ex-nurse, in the Feb 6 special election for an open State Senate seat in northwestern Nassau County. O'Connell has been playing up her record as an ex-nurse in her run for office. This rebuttal comes as O'Connell is refusing to release an audit of her office, raising questions about her record as Nassau County Clerk.
Press release after the jump.
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Mon Jan 29, 2007 at 10:26:00 AM EST
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(Typical. Had enough? - promoted by lipris)
More questions are coming out about Maureen O'Connell's fundraising. From today's New York Times under "Supporters in Insuance":
Speaking of that Long Island Senate race, the Republican candidate, Maureen O'Connell, below, appears to be in good standing with the insurer WellCare.
According to campaign finance filings released Friday evening, the health insurer appears to have donated more than the $5,000 corporate limit to Ms. O'Connell's campaign by using a common tactic: also donating through three of its divisions. All told, the company and its divisions, all listing the same post office box in Tampa, Fla., gave $20,000 to Ms. O'Connell's campaign, which had no comment. Many corporate interests see Senate Republicans as important allies to play against the Spitzer administration and the Democrats who control the Assembly. WellCare did not return a call for comment.
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Sat Jan 27, 2007 at 11:48:26 AM EST
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Craig Johnson has the momentum in the Feb 6 special election for an open New York State Senate seat in the Seventh Senate District in northwestern Nassau County. Adding to his momentum, the New York Times has just endorsed Craig for State Senate:
The New York Times
Sunday, January 28, 2007
A State Senate Endorsement
The sudden vacancy in the 7th State Senate District has caused both parties to leap in with guns blazing. When the Republican incumbent, Michael Balboni, quit to join the Spitzer administration as chief of homeland security, the race to succeed him became instantly negative and hugely expensive.
That's because so much is at stake beyond just control of a single seat in northwest Nassau County - control of the Senate, for instance, where the Republican majority has been nearing the vanishing point, as well as the reform agenda of Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who broke with a tradition of gubernatorial nonaggression in such races to appear in an ad hailing the Democratic candidate, Craig Johnson, as an ally in the crusade to fix Albany.
Mr. Johnson, who was elected to the Nassau Legislature in 2000 after the death of the incumbent - his mother, Barbara - is challenging Maureen O'Connell, who became the Nassau County clerk a little over a year ago and now wants to return to Albany, where she served as an assemblywoman since 1998. With very little time to campaign - the special election in Feb 6 - both sides are running at a frantic pace.
Their ads are studies in negativity, with Mr. Johnson's campaign accusing Ms. O'Connell of being as anti-choice extremist on reproductive issues, and Ms. O'Connell running a preposterous spot showing a woman tied to railroad tracks about to mowed down by a train. The train represents taxes, taxes, taxes, specifically the 19-percent increase that County Executive Thomas Suozzi pushed through the Legislature in his first term as part of his utterly sensible - and successful - effort to rescue Nassau's finances from decades of Republican misrule.
Of the charges being burled back and forth over the airwaves, we find Mr. Johnson's the more persuasive. Ms. O'Connell does have a troubling record on choice, having taken stands in Albany - like voting against as emergency contraception bill when it was in committee - that infringed on women's reproductive rights.
Ms. O'Connell's claims that Mr. Johnson's taxing madman are, by contrast, unfounded. The Suozzi tax plan he voted for was a prudent and responsible response to a fiscal mess. He has also assembled a credible record on other issues, including open space preservation.
The race is, though, about something larger - which is the reason the eyes of the whole state are on it. Governor Spitzer will need the cooperation of the Republican-dominated State Senate if he is going to make progress on the ambitious reform agenda that he has laid out. Mr. Johnson has vowed to be his ally in the coming battles, while Ms. O'Connell is likely to give reinforcement to the Albany status quo.
For voters who have hopes that Mr. Spitzer will succeed in fixing Albany, as we do, Mr. Johnson is the obvious choice. We enthusiastically endorse him. We can't let up. You can help.
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The WFP is running the door-to-door and election day GOTV operation for the Johnson campaign. Make a donation to help pay for the GOTV program.
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Thu Jan 25, 2007 at 18:44:59 PM EST
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Craig Johnson came in to talk to the Working Families Party canvass yesterday before heading out to knock on doors and talk to voters. Here's a report from our Canvass Staff Director Mike Boland:
57 of our Canvassers plus a few Directors came out this afternoon to meet Craig who did a really good job answering questions and pumping them up. He was really frank, and that was appreciated. He didn't give a politician type answer on questions, instead he explained clearly how the process worked and what was and wasn't within the power of a State Senator.
People tend to know when someone is talking down to them, and no one felt that way today. It might not sound like much, but in today's sound bite driven, 30 second discourse, it was a breath of fresh air for a bunch of canvassers who are trained to go out and actually get people to talk to them and listen, rather than just talk at them. Several different folks came up to me indvidually and told me as much.
After the speech and Q&A, Craig went out and canvassed with one of our Field Managers, Will Urkhart. Will said it went great and told me Craig was a really good canvasser and very personable with people. So, if he ever gets fed up with Albany, Craig's got a job waiting here with us. The Assembly pays more, but you get to work on some exciting races. Sign up now to talk to voters with us.
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Wed Jan 24, 2007 at 20:05:08 PM EST
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(From the diaries. Johnson has got all the mo right now. Now let's get out there and seal the deal. - promoted by lipris)
The Craig Johnson for State Senate campaign has gotten a slew of new endorsements in the last few days. Adding to the efforts of groups like CWA are the Nassau County Police Benevolent Association, which has over 2,000 members and is the largest law enforcement union on Long Island, and SEIU Local 32BJ, which has 60,000 members in New York and is the largest private sector union in New York and the largest property service workers union in the United States.
Here's why 32BJ endorsed Craig:
"By helping to pass a minimum wage bill in Nassau County, Craig Johnson has shown himself to be a strong supporter of Long Island's working families" said Mike Fishman, Local 32BJ President. "We look forward to working with him in Albany to raise standards for all New York's working families."
Last year, the Nassau County Legislature passed a living wage law that will raise minimum wages for workers contracted by the county to $9.50 an hour beginning in 2007. The minimum hourly pay rate will increase to $10.50 an hour in 2008, and again in 2010 to $12.50 an hour.
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