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Antonio Delgado railed against capitalism, rapped about porn, masturbating The Democratic congressional candidate for New York's 19th district, Antonio Delgado, rhymed about watching porn, masturbating, and attacked capitalism in his past life as a "social justice" rapper. Delgado, who is challenging Rep. John Faso (R., N.Y.), released an album under the record label "CD Baby" in 2007. Delgado, whom the New York Times considers "much less progressive" than other Democratic House candidates like socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, once tried to pursue a rap career to advance "radical social change" in the United States.

So much has been said recently about the rivalry between the House Freedom Caucus and a group called “The Tuesday Group,” a group of largely unnamed so-called “moderates” in the House. The leadership of the Tuesday Group is named, and some members willingly speak to reporters about their agenda. The group boasts of a membership of somewhere between 40 and 50 members, but only a few have outed themselves as part of the secretive backroom group. The most vocal member is one of the co-chairs named Charlie Dent, a Pennsylvanian Republican whose liberty score reveals that he votes liberal 72%...

What a bunch of sellouts! We knew that Rupert Murdock was hosting Hillary Clinton but for their usually reliable editorial board to completely sell out is trully irresponsible and a disservice to its mostly conservative readership. The Post states that "Spitzer is a Democrat, and a resolutely liberal Democrat at that". No kidding: the guy will push for gay marriage and is an ardent supporter of partial birth abortion. They also state that John Faso, his Republican opponent for governor "is a man of principle who values lower taxes - would that Spitzer had half of Faso's commitment to tax...

Alan Hevesi, the current State Controller, has been exposed as the crook that we knew he was, what with his using state funds to pay for his wife's limo driver/keeper. Carol Hevesi may be ill, but surely Alan could have come up with the funds from his own pocket. Now that he is being investigated by an Ethics Panel in Albany and by the local district attorney, there is talk of having him "replaced" if he wins election over little known Republican candidate Christopher Callaghan. John Faso, who is running against Eliot Spitzer, has not been able to raise the...

Republican candidate for governor John Faso tells News 8 Democratic State Comptoller Alan Hevesi is a criminal and he should resign. Faso made those comments in an interview here at Channel 8 Friday. He says Hevesi is getting away with a crime and his Democratic opponent for governor, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, is doing nothing about it. Earlier this week Hevesi agreed to reimburse the state $82,000 after is was revealed he used a state employee as his wife's chauffeur for the last three years. "And I'm appalled the comptroller of the state of New York has admitted now he...

The Powers that Be wisely decided to dump William Weld, the former liberal governor of Massachusetts, in favor of John Faso, conservative Republican. Now they have turned their backs on him giving a pass to Eliot Spitzer, who wants to run for president one day.

Showing their fund-raising prowess, the Democrats Eliot Spitzer and Hillary Rodham Clinton have collected millions of dollars in recent months, many times more than their Republican opponents running for governor and United States senator. Mrs. Clinton, who is seeking her second term in the Senate, has about $22 million cash on hand, 100 times the amount for either of her Republican rivals, John Spencer, a former mayor of Yonkers, and Kathleen Troia McFarland, a Reagan-era Pentagon official, according to numbers provided by their campaigns yesterday. Mr. Spitzer, the attorney general, who began raising money for his campaign for governor nearly...

ALBANY -- The state's small Libertarian Party, abandoned by first choice Bill Weld, has backed a U.S. Navy submarine veteran for governor. The party chose John Clifton for its governor candidate and Donald Silberger, a professor, for lieutenant governor, said party spokesman Richard Cooper. Weld, a Republican candidate for governor, dropped the Libertarian line after he ended his Republican campaign earlier this month. Weld had lost a nominating vote at the state Republican convention to John Faso, now the party's designee for governor. Clifton is a Navy veteran and the party bills him as "a social worker against the welfare...

The Republican Party in this state has a big decision to make: Is it Republican or is it Democrat? The party faces this crossroads up and down the ballot, and all across the state - but an anecdote from the battle for the gubernatorial nomination between former Assembly Minority leader John Faso and onetime Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld really brings it home. Earlier this month, Bill DeProspo, a Weld supporter and the GOP chairman of Orange County, sent a long letter attacking Faso for once voting against a comparable-worth bill - and complaining that this (along with other votes) shows...

May 29, 2006 -- TOP backers of former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld's bid for the Republican nomination for governor are increasingly pessimistic about his chances of defeating John Faso, The Post has learned. One prominent Weld backer conceded yesterday that the once-front-running candidate has yet to line up the 51 percent of the vote he'll need to emerge from this week's GOP convention as the party's official choice for governor.

ALBANY BUREAU CHIEF ALBANY - Republican William Weld accused GOP gubernatorial rival John Faso of having an "Irish problem" - resurrecting a 10-year-old case in which Faso was against having public schools teach about Ireland's 1845-49 potato famine. During a 1996 debate, Faso, then an assemblyman, said incorporating it into the statewide curriculum was "silly," arguing, "I suppose if we had a large Cambodian population, we could expect a law mandating lessons about the horrors of Pol Pot." Weld went after Faso on the issue, saying, "Teaching about genocide and other human rights violations, including the Holocaust during World War...

The Republican race for governor of New York is set for a shake-up on Monday with one of the three candidates, Randy A. Daniels, planning to drop out and throw his conservative and upstate political coalition to a rival, John Faso, both men said today.

The Republican race for governor of New York is set for a shake-up on Monday with one of the three candidates, Randy A. Daniels, planning to drop out and throw his conservative and upstate political coalition to a rival, John Faso, both men said today. Mr. Daniels, a former New York secretary of state, said that he will endorse Mr. Faso at a campaign event in Albany on Monday morning, and that he expected at least some of his allies to attend and switch sides to Mr. Faso as well. Both men said in separate interviews that no deals were...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld on Monday won a nonbinding straw poll of GOP candidates for New York's governor that was weighted toward counties with strong Republican turnouts. But John Faso's bid, framed as a more socially conservative alternative, attracted an equal number of county party bosses. Each campaign claimed victory in the vote that revealed a tangible split in the Republican ranks over who will run for governor in 2006. One goal of Monday's meeting of Republican leaders was to find a consensus candidate to raise money and take on Eliot Spitzer, the current attorney general...