Kirsten Gillibrand

by Michael Muskal Neophyte Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York is running far ahead of any possible challenger, a bright spot for Democrats trying to prevent Republicans from seizing control of Congress in the midterm election year. According to a......

Democratic labor activist Jonathan Tasini, who ran in a primary against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2006, plans Thursday to announce a challenge to Clinton???s successor, Kirsten Gillibrand. ???I believe in primaries,??? Tasini, 53, said yesterday...

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-Mineola), who has been a driving force behind finding a Democrat to challenge appointed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in New York's 2010 Democratic primary, has ruled out a run for the Senate, her press aide Raymond Zaccaro......

Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan), who is weighing a challenge to appointed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in New York's 2010 Democratic primary, received a telephone call from Vice President Joe Biden this week. But a source close to Maloney said Biden did.......

After a pep-rally and news conference on a bill to provide a month of family and medical leave to the 2.7 million federal workers that the House is voting on today, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan) declined to answer any questions......

The first Democrat to jump in against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in next year???s special election, Jonathan Tasini, who ran the underdog challenge to Sen. Hillary Clinton in 2006, is defining himself early. ???We???re at this incredibly pivotal moment in......

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer has been arguing that there should be no primary for appointed colleague Kirsten Gillibrand because Democrats must retain the seat to keep Republicans from obstructing the policies of progressivism, Obama, etc. In this week's...

Which was the most fevered lunge for self- promotion? 1. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, running for Senate, expressing dismay Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand introduced her bill on Sept. 11 worker health. 2. Nassau Conservative chairman Roger Bogsted slamming Nassau GOP...

Cesar Perales was seated early, before the Senate hearing room filled up. He stayed, just a couple of rows back from Judge Sonia Sotomayor and her relatives, all the way through the hours of speech making that consumed the......

Much of Latino political New York seems to have expressed enthusiasm for the selection by President Obama of Sonia Sotomayor for the U.S. Supreme Court. So how would Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who as an upstate Congresswoman took positions on......

And so, U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney becomes the second Democratic primary candidate in the race to replace appointed U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, the first being Jonathan Tasini, who announced last month. Her advantage may be her having been in......

When Gov. David A. Paterson recently replaced June O'Neill as Democratic state chairman with Nassau Chairman Jay Jacobs, you could have guessed that AG Andrew Cuomo wasn't going to be crazy about the pick -- if you assume the template......