Category: Elections
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Staten Island Mansion Money Fix
Eric Bischoff welcomed Staten Island’s political establishment to the privately owned Kreischer Mansion wearing a Victorian tuxedo while elected officials from both parties celebrated $475,000 in announced or allocated public…
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Mamdani’s Enemies-List Distraction
Zohran Mamdani’s million-name pied-à-terre tax rollout has produced exactly the spectacle New York’s political class understands: wealthy targets, celebrity addresses, socialist rhetoric and screaming tabloid headlines. Critics call it an…
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Common Sense Democrats? More Like Crime Scene Democrats
Brian Laline wanted to explain Kamala Harris’s 2024 faceplant and sell Democrats a fantasy comeback under the label “Common Sense Democrats.” Richard Luthmann says the autopsy is already finished. Democrats…
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I’m William Peck – A Bobby Zahn Tribute
Robert J. “Bobby” Zahn, Jr. was not a polished political insider. He was better than that. He was a Staten Island original: a 9/11 responder, Tea Party warrior, proto-MAGA organizer,…
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Tonawanda Time Bomb
Former Erie County DA John Flynn wants the Tonawanda power chair. His jailed cousin Ryan Flynn says not so fast. Ryan claims the comeback is not public service, but political…
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Staten Island Spelling Bee Bloodbath
Staten Island’s Republican Party isn’t just fractured—it’s at war. What began as a routine Assembly primary challenge has detonated into a full-scale political brawl between insurgent John A. Tabacco and…
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Staten Island Amateur Hour?
Staten Island Republicans are no longer whispering—they’re warring. What started as a routine Assembly primary challenge has detonated into a full-scale MAGA insurgency against the borough’s GOP establishment. Cable news…
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Sign of the Times: Blakeman Plants Flag in MAGA Stronghold
A single yard sign on Staten Island’s South Shore just turned into a political flare shot. On Hylan Boulevard, in the heart of New York City’s most pro-Trump territory, Bruce…
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SCOTUS Saves NY-11 Seat
The United States Supreme Court just saved Staten Island from political dismemberment. In a 6–3 emergency stay, the Court halted a Manhattan judge’s order that would have redrawn New York’s…
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Luthmann Op-Ed: Laline’s Blame Trump Farce Amid NY-11 Power Grab
Staten Island is under siege — not from Trump, but from Democrats using race-based lawfare to dismantle NY-11. In his latest column, Brian Laline tells readers to “blame Trump” for…
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The Lawyers Blew It in NY-11 Redistricting
Let’s be blunt: Nicole Malliotakis’ election lawyers got outplayed by Marc Elias, and Staten Island is now facing the fallout. The NY-11 redistricting case was a straightforward federal matter involving…
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Dominion or Doom
The question wasn’t shouted. It didn’t need to be. In the White House briefing room Tuesday, Cara Castronuova asked President Donald Trump whether he would speak directly to Nicolás Maduro…









