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When you work on a campaign, you have to remember there are cameras everywhere, as John Degnan learned this week.

Marcela Rojas reports: “A Republican committee supporting incumbent state Assemblyman Greg Ball, R-Patterson, is calling on his opponent, John Degnan to apologize [...]

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The group New Yorkers for Growth has endorsed Larchmont Mayor Liz Feld’s GOP bid to unseat Democratic state Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer. The group’s founders include John Faso, a GOP candidate for governor in 2006, and Ed Cox, who ran for U.S. Senate. [...]

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As promised, we have widget-ized our RSS feed of Lohud.com’s politics and government news and installed it over to the right in the blog sidebar. You can grab that widget and install it on your own blog or web page—just click on the tab at the [...]

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Hispanic registered voters support Democrat Barack Obama for president over Republican John McCain by 66 percent to 23 percent, according to a new nationwide survey of 2,015 Latinos conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center.

The center [...]

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So we’re launching a few new bells and whistles with Politics on the Hudson. One is the little “listen now” button you’ll see at the top of the posts. If you click on the button a computerized voice will read you the text. [...]

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Dad Rudy wanted to be the leader of the free world. Son Andrew Giuliani wants to be a golf pro, which is why the Duke senior is suing to be reinstated to the university golf team, according to published reports.

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Three former Pataki administration employees have formed a corporation to try to raise money to establish a Peekskill museum named after the former governor, The Buffalo News is reporting.

Here’s the top of their story:

ALBANY — A corporation will raise [...]

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Yonkers councilman John Murtagh, a Republican candidate for state Senate, plans to propose “shaking up Albany with ‘People Power’” at a news conference today.

Murtagh “will call upon the State Legislature to change the fundamental way it does business by passing a constitutional [...]

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Larchmont Mayor Liz Feld, a Republican candidate for state Senate, plans to hold a series of outdoor town hall forums around the district beginning in August “to discuss the growing property tax burden on Westchester families, senior citizens and small businesses, as [...]

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Michelle Obama will be coming to the area next week but it won’t be one of those packed-stadium affairs.

Instead, folks with $1,000 to spend can meet her in a private reception Monday at the home of Mary Ann Koenig and Rick [...]