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State Assemblyman Greg Ball, R-Patterson, wants his colleagues to stay in Albany until the state Legislature and the governor enact a cap on property taxes. That was the gist of a press conference Ball held this morning, where he laid out several suggestions for [...]

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So I wandered over to the paper’s other politics blog, Albany Watch, and found an Assemblyman Greg Ball-related post concerning a debate about “canned shoots” and decorum toward a fellow lawmaker.

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You never know who you will bump into when you’re getting coffee. For my colleague, Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, it was Bill Clinton. Swapna spied the former president this morning in Chappaqua.

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Anyone familiar with state Assemblyman Greg Ball knows one of his main issues is ending illegal immigration. In his run for a second term, Ball, R-Patterson, is facing a challenge from Republican John Degnan, a former Brewster mayor. A recent mailer sent out by Ball [...]

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Democratic committees in the Westchester portion of the 99th Assembly District announced their support this morning for John Degnan, a Republican, in his bid to unseat state Assemblyman Greg Ball, R-Patterson.

Degnan, a former Brewster mayor and trustee, was endorsed last week [...]

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Westchester Legislator George Oros sent a letter to his supporters over the weekend, letting them know he was dropping out of the race for Congress. In February, Oros, R-Cortlandt, announced his intent to take on Rep. John Hall, D-Dover Plains.

Last week, GOP committee [...]

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The Westchester Republican Committee last night endorsed state Assemblyman Greg Ball, R-Patterson, in his bid for a second term. John Degnan, former Brewster mayor and trustee, who is challenging Ball for the GOP line, apparently couldn’t get his nomination seconded [...]

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Assemblyman Greg Ball’s campaign today touted the assemblyman’s endorsement by the NRA. You can read the press release after the break.

This comes about a week after Ball, R-Patterson, showed up uninvited at a Democratic-led demonstration on microstamping, a measure that would require [...]

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Rep. John Hall, D- Dover Plains, Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano and others will be on hand this afternoon when a nationwide bus tour to rally support for making fighting cancer a top political priority stops in Yorktown.

The Fight Back [...]

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State Assemblyman Greg Ball apparently made his feelings known today on a piece of legislation that would require every semi-automatic weapon manufactured in the state capable of stamping a unique code onto the cartridge case of fired ammuntion. The information, proponents say, can [...]