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The Modern Political MachineSome things have changed, some have not as Vito Lopez, Dennis Rivera, Jerry Nadler and Dan Cantor quickly gain on Tom Manton in power race
The political machine is dead, long live machine politics.
Decades after Tammany Hall, decades after the reform era, and with ever more of the city’s roughly 168 elected positions in Democratic hands, certain of the party’s men and women (though mostly men) have taken charge.
Staten Island for Democrats?
Registration says yes, but Marchi race raises doubts
Sweeping up Albany,” the campaign slogan for this year’s Democratic effort to win back the State Senate, evokes a Democratic fantasy, with visions of brooms pushing voters to the polls. That might now be more realistic than ever: Democrats in control of every statewide office and both chambers of the Legislature.
To take control of the Senate, they need to pick up just four seats. But in Staten Island, Democrats have fumbled a rare opportunity to win a seat that has been in Republican hands for 50 years – the very kind of opportunity that, if missed, could erode any chance of a Democratic takeover.
Paula Gavin
Amy Stuart Wells
Robert Jackson
Peter Murphy