Former Senate Minority Leader Marty Connor, who is part of the team
of election attorneys handling the recount fight for the Democrats in the Thompson race, said the whole mess could take weeks — or maybe even months — which means there might be empty seats in the chamber when the Legislature returns to Albany in early January.
But she made a big push here in Niagara Falls and came to the DRC with some new operatives in tow:
Election attorney Henry Berger and consultant Frank Hoare, who used to be executive director of the state Democratic Party and knows all the county chairs well.
He worked as one of two
election attorneys for Assembly GOP Leader Brian Kolb in a hotly contested February 2000 special election that first sent Kolb to Albany.
A debate — featuring Cuomo's
election attorney Marty Connor — about whether the residency requirement for gubernatorial candidates still matter.
In a scathing seven - page letter to Sugarman sent on Sunday,
elections attorney Laurence Laufer accuses Sugarman of harboring «a shocking lack of understanding or a complete disregard for the most fundamental aspects of the state's election laws.»
Longtime
Republican elections attorneys John Ryan, who represents Friends of Ed Mangano, and Peter Bee, representing the Nassau Republican Committee, on Thursday confirmed receipt of identically worded subpoenas from Schneiderman.
Four days later, Ortega and Ortiz - Thompson formally retained
leading election attorney and former state Senate Minority Leader Marty Connor to block their opponents from getting on the ballot.
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Chicago election attorney Burt Odelson has appealed a Cook County judge's ruling that former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel meets the residency requirement necessary to run for Chicago mayor.
That gave me the chance to greet her and announce that our team of New
York election attorneys (via the New York Democratic Lawyers Council) would be coordinating with her lawyers to protect the vote in MA on election day.
«I haven't done the research, but the plain text appears to present a thorny legal issue,» said Jerry Goldfeder, a
Democratic election attorney.
Election Attorney Jerry Goldfeder discusses the state's byzantine election laws, and talks about Governor Cuomo's proposed bill to change the state's special elections.
Of course, just hitting 15,000 isn't really sufficient, as
any election attorney worth his or her salt will tell you.
Also,
an election attorney noted that made a contribution of $ 25,000 to the party on Oct. 11, which would push him over the $ 102,300 (not $ 150,000) individual contribution limit.
• Campaign announcement strategy; • Recruiting volunteers; • Fundraising, communication and endorsement support; • Help to hire staff; • Guidance through the petitioning process; and • Access to
an election attorney.
The GOP has accused the Democrats of trying to drag out the recounts in hopes of using them as a fundraising tool to help settle the more than $ 2 million debt they accumulated during the campaign (not to mention whatever it's costing them to pay all
those election attorneys).
De Blasio also reiterated that he had cleared all his activities with
his election attorneys, and with the city's Conflict of Interest Board.
The Chicago Tribune reports that Vallas's
election attorney, Burt Odelson, is planning to file paperwork next week to set up a «Paul Vallas for Chicago» campaign committee.