New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has repeatedly declared he doesn’t want to run for president — but that hasn’t stopped supporters from putting up a Web site urging him to run.
“I love Sarah Palin, but the media despises her and many voters find her unacceptable as a presidential candidate,” wrote Donald Sico, of DraftChristie- 2012.com.
Last weekend, Christie topped Palin — and other conservative boldface names like Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich and Jim DeMint — in a Virginia Tea Party Patriots straw poll.
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Gov. Paterson finally had some news that might make New Yorkers rest easy — the hopelessly ham-fisted state Legislature isn’t in session.
“The state is safe. Nobody’s there so no damage can be done,” Paterson joked yesterday on WOR radio when host John Gambling asked what was doing in Albany.
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After weeks of name calling, US Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and the Republican challenger vying for her seat — former Rep. Joe DioGuardi — are scheduled for their first debate today at 2 p.m. in the studios of WABC/Channel 7. It will be streamed live at 7online.com and air on Channel 7 Sunday.
Also, Jay Townsend — the Republican vying for Sen. Charles Schumer’s seat — can stop carrying around his cardboard cutout of Chuck, who has agreed to an NY1-sponsored debate a week from Sunday.
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This might have turned into the biggest landslide in history.
Thanks to a typographical error, voters in some predominantly African-American Chicago neighborhoods almost had the option of selecting a Green Party candidate whose name mistakenly popped up on electronic machines as “Rich Whitey.”
But the local election board decided yesterday to spend the time and money to reprogram the machines to display, properly, “Richard Whitney.”