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May 1, 2008

Endorsement for Harrison

By Tom Wrobleski  
Staten Island Advance

Democratic congressional hopeful Steve Harrison has picked up the support of the Democratic Advancement PAC (DAPAC), a group that looks to elect "progressive" Democrats to office.

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April 25, 2008

In Council Campaigns, Relatives on the Payroll

By Ray Rivera, Russ Buettner and William K. Rashbaum
New York Times

"A review by The New York Times found that more than a dozen of the 51 current members have used campaign funds to pay family members -- or themselves -- at election time..

..In Brooklyn, Domenic M. Recchia Jr. paid his wife $6,600 in rent in 2005 for the use of part of their family home as a campaign headquarters."

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Remember Dick Cheney

Editorial
The Brooklyn Paper

Rep. Vito Fossella -- the city's lone Republican congressman -- spent considerable time in his 2006 re-election campaign running away from the policies of an unpopular President Bush.

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April 24, 2008

Fossella, King Seek to Force Vote on FISA Bill

Empire State News

Congressmen Vito Fossella (R-NY13) and Peter King (R-NY3) began circulating a discharge petition Wednesday to force a vote on the bipartisan Senate FISA modernization bill.

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GOP Makes FISA Bid

By Jennifer Yachnin
Roll Call

In their latest effort to force federal wiretapping legislation favored by the Bush administration onto the House floor, Republicans are pressing conservative Democratic lawmakers to sign onto a discharge petition.

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Bay Ridge's 'Green Spa' Grand Opening

By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Eagle

It's getting easier being "green" but it sure takes a lot of hard work. On Earth Day on Tuesday evening, over 100 Brooklyn business and civic leaders celebrated its "eco-pioneering" small business, The Spa and Wellness Center/Green Spa New York at 8804 Third Ave.

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Activists Protest Dick And Vito Fundraiser

By Thomas Good
Next Left Notes

Republican congressman Vito Fossella, long derided by progressives as 'Bush's rubber stamp' is running for re-election. According to watchdog group Truth 13 Fossella is low on funds and his campaign is vulnerable. On April 21 billionaire oil baron David H. Koch hosted a fundraiser to help Fossella's faltering campaign. The guest of honor at Koch's upper east side home was another unpopular republican - Vice President Dick Cheney.

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April 23, 2008

House Republicans Face Tough Sell On FISA Petition

By Daniel Reilly
The Politico

House Republicans introduced a discharge petition on controversial electronic surveillance legislation Wednesday, hoping to lure enough Democrats to the petition to force the House to take up a Senate-passed version of the bill.

Republican Rep. Vito Fossella of New York and others began circulating the petition, hoping to get the 218 signatures necessary to force the House to take up the bill. Fossella's bill is virtually identical to the Senate version of an update to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

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