politics generally

TRYING TO SAVE THEIR SEATS

Lucas A. Ferrara
March 22, 2012 14:30

President Obama may not need his own TV ads. He could just replay the Republican debates, 30 seconds at a time.The Republicans would have left the U.S. auto industry to die, but demand tax breaks for oil companies. They support President Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy, but won't cut payroll...

THREE JUDGE PANEL FAVORS NEW YORK VOTERS

Lucas A. Ferrara
March 22, 2012 14:00

On March 2, 2012. we reported that Newman Ferrara attorneys Randolph McLaughlin and Jeffrey Norton intervened on behalf of New York African-American voters in the case Favors v. Cuomo.    After the 2010 Census, New York was obligated to draw new legislative districts to accurately...

IS THIS WHAT WOMEN ARE SAYING?

Lucas A. Ferrara
March 21, 2012 16:30

"If they're going to decide on women's reproductive issues, I'm not going to vote for any of them. Women's reproduction is our own business." -- Iowa voter, evangelical Christian, and former Mitt Romney supporter Mary Russell, quoted in the New York Times, March 10, 2012 Dear Lucas, Women like...

LIZ IS PISSED

Lucas A. Ferrara
March 21, 2012 15:30

Dear Lucas, I want to take the opportunity to tell you what happened in the middle of the night a few days ago how it only increases the importance of the No Bad Apples PAC.  Around midnight, on the morning of the Ides of March, my Senate Democratic colleagues and I refused to...

NO STIFLING STABENOW

Lucas A. Ferrara
March 21, 2012 14:30

Dear Lucas,The special interest groups have arrived in Michigan...and their target is Senator Stabenow.Just last week, a Tea Party-aligned front group financed by the big drug companies and Washington special interests called "60 Plus,"  spent almost $1,000,000 on TV ads trying to scare...