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Charles Barron Intends To Challenge Andrew Cuomo's 'All-White Slate' For Governorship
Associated Press WriterNew York City Councilman Charles Barron, angered by Democrat Andrew Cuomo's selection of a white, male running mate and the overall lack of diversity among Democrats running for statewide office, said Monday he would launch his own protest bid for...Tags: Executive Branch, New York, Parties and Movements, Government, New York City
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Ellyn Marks
Ellyn Marks is a general assignment reporter for PIX News at Ten. In addition, she is the producer of PIX News Closeup, a weekly newsmaker talk program featuring lively discussion and debate on both local and national issues.
Ellyn was named WPIX-TV's...Tags: New York, Career and Workplace, Employees, Documentary (genre), Television
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NJ Politician Fesses Up To Watching Child Porn
TRENTON, N.J. (WPIX) -- He once rallied for bills aimed at fighting child pornography, now it's child porn that may end his career. Former state assemblyman Neil Cohen pleaded not guilty Tuesday to child porn and official misconduct charges Cohen's...Tags: New Jersey, Lawyers, Hospitals and Clinics, Crime, Law and Justice, Health
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Fmr. Manhattan Borough Pres. Percy Sutton Dies
Percy Sutton, the pioneering civil rights attorney who represented Malcolm X before launching successful careers as a political power broker and media mogul, has died. He was 89.
Marissa Shorenstein, a spokeswoman for Gov. David Paterson, confirmed...Tags: National or Ethnic Minorities, Radio Industry, Lawyers, Texas, Primaries
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PIX Exclusive: Cuomo Waiting to be Drafted by Party
The Cuomo camp has denied that the Attorney General is holding off any announcement of his gubernatorial intentions until the state Democratic Convention at the end of May.
Political insiders told PIX News that Cuomo is not expected to announce whether...Tags: Long Island, Executive Branch, Regional Authority, State Budgets, Suffolk County (New York)
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Blumenthal Calls Vietnam Serviced Comments Misplaced Words
Staff reporterDemocratic Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal on Tuesday conceded he had "misspoken" in claiming repeatedly that he served in Vietnam, dismissing the furor as a matter of "a few misplaced words." At a news conference backed by veterans, the popular...Tags: U.S. Senate, Richard Blumenthal, Armed Forces, Connecticut, Newspaper and Magazine
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Is The Cuomo-Duffy Gubernatorial Ticket Scandal-Proof?
wpix.comIn a state where a sex scandal resulted in a lieutenant governor becoming governor and then being mired in scandal himself, the person who current New York Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Cuomo selects as his running mate has special significance....Tags: Elections, Executive Branch, Local Elections, Regional Authority, Suffolk County (New York)
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Won't you please come to Chicago
They've come to protest war, or to protest the money spent on war, or to protest the cuts in social programs that they blame on the money spent on war. They want a tax on Wall Street, a moratorium on home foreclosures, an end to deportation of...Tags: Robin Hood, Democratic Convention (1968), Protest, Health, Europe
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Police, Secret Service tighten the Loop
Chicago police officers are used to flooding hot spots on the South and West sides to fight the street gang violence that drives most of the mayhem in the city, but this week they have begun to flood another side of the metropolis: the glittering...
Tags: NATO, Democratic Convention (1968), Garry McCarthy, Chicago Police Department, NATO Summit
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News briefs for Thursday, May 10
A long, slow contemplation, then a decisive turn, behind Obama's move to endorse gay marriage WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's evolution on gay marriage unfolded at a Darwinian pace, like that of the giant tortoise. For more than a year...
Tags: West Point, Health, Joe Biden, White House, Union (Tolland, Connecticut)
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Missouri Democrats to hold state convention June 9
The Missouri Democratic Party announced Thursday that it would hold the 2012 Democratic Party State Convention on Saturday, June 9, at the Lodge of the Four Seasons at Lake of the Ozarks. The convention, billed as the largest gathering of Democrats in...Tags: Elections, Parties and Movements, Politics, Democratic Party
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Should Democrats pull their convention out of North Carolina?
South Florida Sun-SentinelNorth Carolina voters passed one of the most restrictive anti-gay marriage amendments in the country this week. It will be interesting to see if the Democratic Party says they don’t want their convention there this summer. The Democratic...Tags: Elections, Bill Clinton, Parties and Movements, Gays and Lesbians, Politics
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