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Source: blog.washingtonpost.com --- 26 days ago
Down-and-out Rep. Vito Fossella (R-N.Y.) has hired two private detectives to help him beat his drunk driving charge, which he plans to fight in court in Alexandria, Va., on June 27. As first reported in the New York Daily News today, Fossella has hired the very same gumshoes who once worked for the likes of O.J. Simpson, Patty Hearst and mafia boss John Gotti. The... ... Source: www.nydailynews.com --- 16 days ago
Frank Powers, the Republican favorite to run for the seat of scandal-scarred Rep. Vito Fossella this fall, suffered a fatal heart attack early Sunday, further complicating an already bizarre race. ... Source: www.startribune.com --- 16 days ago
... Source: wonkette.com --- 15 days ago
Vito Fossella, Staten Island’s beloved congressman, won America’s heart with his drunk driving, mistress-having, love-child-fathering ways. Of course, such a free spirit could not stay in Congress so he planned not to run for re-election. The Staten Island Republican Party searched and searched for somebody to run for Fossella’s spot, and all these people said, [...] ... Source: www.tblog.com --- 36 days ago
Republicans - Pride before the fall Is it just me or does it seem like every week another Illustrious Leader is caught doing something wr... more from commontater... ... Source: congressratings.com --- 24 days ago
Image via Wikipedia Vito John Fossella, Jr. (born March 9, 1965), is a Republican politician from the state of New York who has represented the state's 13th Congressional district ( map ) in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1997. The district includes Staten Island and the Bay… ... Source: news.yahoo.com --- 6 days ago
CQPolitics.com - With the defending Republicans facing twists and turns confirming that truth can be stranger than fiction, the Democrats now appear to hold a solid edge in the battle for the seat New York Republican Rep. Vito J. Fossella left open -- after the married father of three admitted in May that he has a daughter from an ongoing extramarital relationship. ...
Source: news.aol.com --- 16 days ago
NEW YORK (AP) - The millionaire endorsed by Republican leaders as their candidate for the New York congressional seat being vacated by Rep. Vito Fossella has died. ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 16 days ago
Frank Powers, the most likely Republican candidate set to run for the New York City seat of Congressman Vito Fossella, died of a heart attack Sunday morning at the age of 67. ... Source: cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com --- 7 days ago
Interest has emerged in Carmine Morano, a businessman and a member of the Independence Party, as a possible Republican candidate to run for the seat that Representative Vito J. Fossella will vacate. ... Source: blog.washingtonpost.com --- 6 days ago
It's been six weeks since scandal-plagued Rep. Vito Fossella announced that he would not run for reelection in the only congressional district Republicans hold in New York City, and a week since the GOP's chosen candidate to replace him, Frank Powers, died of a heart attack. The situation hasn't gotten any less muddled since that shocking development, as Staten Island Republicans appear to be fighting amongst themselves over the next step while Democrats coalesce with...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry. ... Source: www.foxnews.com --- 16 days ago
The man picked to replace disgraced New York Rep. Vito Fossella died in his sleep Sunday, The Staten Island Advance reported. ... Source: www.nypost.com --- 8 days ago
WASHINGTON - All but two Congress members from the New York metropolitan area have refused to disclose how much money they're seeking for local pork projects. Only two representatives, Republican Reps. Peter King of Long Island and Vito Fossella... ...
Source: www.nydailynews.com --- 15 hours ago
Staten Island GOP Chairman John Friscia is working the phones this morning in an attempt to get all interested parties together to agree on a 13th CD candidate by June 10th. "I have no name for you just yet," said Friscia, whose plans are to file the roughly 1,550 signatures gathered for Frank Powers before he died last month. Asked whether his organization might support former Assemblyman Robert Straniere, who is circulating petitions on his own, Friscia replied: "I'm not saying that we are, and I'm not saying we're not going to." Friscia also seemed unconcerned about former Staten Island Borough President Guy Molinari's anger over what he sees as a lack of leadership in trying to settle on a candidate to replace Rep. Vito Fossella and Molinari's subsequent threat to challenge Friscia for the chairmanship next year. "We had a conversation last Thursday," Friscia said. "He had a very strong opinion about the things I should be doing, and I advised him he and I would differ on his opinion." "...Let me put it this way," Friscia continued. "I don't want to insult him by saying I'm not concerned. People are frustrated. People are upset. People say things in the heat of the moment...I'd like to think once we have a candidate he will be supportive of that candidate." The Staten Island Advance's Tom Wrobleski reports Brooklyn Republicans are collecting names for Conservative Paul Atanasio, whom the borough GOP organization endorsed first ... Source: www.nydailynews.com --- 9 hours ago
Democrat Dan Maffei, who is making his second attempt at winning the 25th CD seat, is up on the air with his first TV ad - a spot his campaign says is also the first of any 2008 House Democratic candidate. (Not having paid all that much attention to races outside of New York, I'm going to have to take their word on that one). A Syracuse native and former aide to Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Bill Bradley, Maffei lost to GOP Rep. Jim Walsh in 2006 by just under 4,000 votes. This time around, Walsh isn't seeking re-election (he's one of three incumbent New York House Republicans retiring this year, along with Vito Fossella and Tom Reynolds). After Walsh announced he wouldn't run again, there was a brief flurry of activity during which it was unclear whether some other Democrat, (most likely Syracuse Mayor Matt Driscoll) might challenge Maffei. But Driscoll decided not to run, and the party is backing Maffei, who will face former GOP Onondaga County Legislator Dale Sweetland (who also emerged from a field of possible primary challengers) in the general election. Maffei's campaign also outlined its fund-raising totals to date: $1.3 million through June 30, some $470,000 from April 1 to the end of last month, and roughly $950,000 cash on hand. ... Source: corner.nationalreview.com --- 16 days ago
Francis H. Powers, running for Vito Fossella's seat, died this morning. ... Source: talkingpointsmemo.com --- 16 days ago
Francis H. Powers, the leading GOP candidate for retiring Rep. Vito Fossella's Staten Island seat, died Sunday of natural causes at the age of 67. ... Find more search results for Vito Fossella on RSSMicro.com |
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NY1 Staten Island GOP Candidate Dies New York Times - 57 minutes ago By JONATHAN P. HICKS and JOHN SULLIVAN The candidate endorsed by Republican leaders to run for a Congressional seat being vacated by Representative Vito J. Fossella died on Sunday morning at his home in Staten Island, party leaders said. Top candidate to replace Vito Fossella dies of heart attack New York Daily News Candidate Tapped to Replace Fossella Dies Suddenly FOXNews amNewYork - myfoxny.com - WNBC - Staten Island Advance - SILive.com all 11 news articles ...
Might David Vitter belong to that rare breed of politicians who survive the type of scandal that sink most others (see Spitzer, Eliot , and Fossella, Vito )? Chances are we won't know for sure until 2010, when the Republican senator from Louisiana is up for re-election. But based on a new poll by the Baton Rouge-based Southern Media & Opinion Research firm, Vitter has reason for optimism that he will keep his job. When we last left Vitter -- almost exactly a year ago -- he was confessing, vaguely, to a "very serious sin" that involved his association with a D.C.-based prostitution ring. Then a New Orleans-based prostitute alleged that she and the senator had once been especially good friends (a connection Vitter denied). Perhaps the best-remembered moment stemming from the scandal occurred when Vitter held a news conference in Metairie, La., to try to put it behind him (fat chance) and was joined at the podium by his wife, Wendy -- whose pained expression said it all (he didn't look especially happy, either). In Washington, Vitter has kept a mostly low profile since then. But he's kept going about his senatorial business and, in Louisiana, his standing appears about the same as it was before the commotion erupted. The new survey of the state's voters found that 55% view him favorably, 38% unfavorably. In April of 2007, a poll by Southern Media put his numbers at 52% favorable, 32% unfavorable. One of the firm's pollsters, Bernie P ...