Rep. Randy Kuhl, R-Hammondsport, Steuben County, released a new ad this morning that takes Democratic opponent Eric Massa to task for backing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s tax plan, showing Massa and Pelosi arm and arm and saying the plan would take jobs away from upstate New York.

The ad counters Massa’s ad earlier this week that [...]

Republican incumbent Sens. James Alesi and Dale Volker of western New York hold huge leads against their Democratic opponents, while Democratic Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer maintains a major lead against her Republican foe, a Siena College poll released this morning found.

You can read the poll here.

The poll, however, found that a major upset may be in [...]

Gov. Paterson has quietly launched his new campaign website, which he mentioned to the Huffington Post yesterday as he told them he plans to run in 2010.

There’s a series of videos, including one where a commentator says “He just didn’t take over that day (on his inauguration), he took charge.”

And if the one on the [...]

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said today that voters would be remiss if they voted for the McCain-Palin ticket because they like having a woman on the ticket.

She said she’s held more than 40 events for the Obama campaign to spread his message of change.

“I make the case as strongly as I can that our country [...]

Tom Golisano is delivering messages directly to the camera in a latest round of ads supporting
Senate candidates endorsed by his Responsible New York campaign.

Here are two that are running in support of Rochester-area Democratic candidates Richard Dollinger and David Nachbar.

They carry the same theme: The incumbents are entrenched and haven’t done enough to help the [...]

Republican Senate candidate Liz Feld, mayor of Larchmont, launched a new ad today contending that students in the district of her opponent, Democratic Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer, get less state education aid than children in any state in America — even though Westchester pays the highest property taxes in the nation.

The ad is airing on public [...]

Sen. Joseph Robach, R-Greece, Monroe County, takes the gloves off in a new ad against his Democratic opponent Richard Dollinger.

The ad says Dollinger is a “hypocrite” and spent 10 years in the Senate without proposing one bill to help the upstate economy.

With two women talking in a kitchen, the ad starts by them turning off [...]

Democratic congressional candidate Eric Massa is hitting Rep. Randy Kuhl, R-Hammondsport, Steuben County, over his change of heart on the federal bailout package approved last week.

Kuhl said after modifications to the bill he voted in favor of the $700 billion bailout, after voting against the original version a week earlier.

Here’s Massa’s new ad.

Some additional campaign finance reports showed up today.

Sen. Jeff Klein, D-Bronx, has $755,985 on hand, the most of any Senate Democrat. That’s not much of a surprise, considering he is leading the Democrats bid to control the Senate.

But Klein is also helping the Working Families Party, who is working for a Democratic Senate takeover, the [...]

Sen. George Winner, R-Elmira, confirmed today that Senate Republicans are expected to drop their subpoenas that sought records that showed former Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s attempts to smear political foe, former Republican Senate leader Joseph Bruno.

Winner, head of the Senate Investigations Committee, told Gannett News Service that a settlement is being discussed between Senate Republicans and [...]