County Committee News

A long list of candidates are interested in representing Harlem in the state Senate.

Last year, the Bronx Democratic County Committee timed its nomination of a city council member to a judgeship so that his position would be vacated before the end of his term, thus triggering a special election to fill his city council seat for the rest of the term — nine months.

Since 1995, election records indicate that more than half of Supreme Court judgeships – 28 of 55 – have been essentially decided by party leaders with no choice presented to

Michael McCormick a party chairman from Allegany County who thinks the governor should stay right where he is.

Judicial delegates of the Queens County Democratic Party will meet next week to nominate potential judges for New York State Supreme Court.

Come November’s general election in New Scotland, Republican Erik Grissell’s name will appear on the Conservative line for supervisor after beating current Democratic Supervisor Douglas LaGrange in the party’s primary on Tuesday. In the Conservative primary for town board, Republicans Charissa Mayer…

From party chairs to district leaders to canceled elections.

New Yorkers (photo: John McCarten/City Council) As Governor Andrew Cuomo continues to face a barrage of scandals, from sexual harassment accusations to his catastrophic mishandling of the state’s nursing homes during the darkest days of the pandemic, many New Yorkers rightly wonder how the governo…

The city’s June 22 primary elections are coming up fast, and in a city as overwhelmingly Democratic as New York,...

The chairman of Chautauqua County’s Democratic Party is firing back against criticism leveled by the Chautauqua County Legislature’s five Democrat members. Chuck Nazzaro, D-Jamestown and legislature Democratic minority leader, said in a letter sent to The Post-Journal and other media outlets late Tu…

Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte-Hermelyn chalked up the cutting of ties with the Brooklyn Young Democrats to a paperwork snafu.

GLOVERSVILLE -- Political newcomer and Black Lives Matter activist Lashawn Hawkins has been shut out of the June 22 Democratic Party Primary because she’s not a registered Democrat, but she could still run on the Democratic Party line in November for city council-person-at-large, if no other Democra

Volunteers petitioning (photo: @INDBrooklyn) Today — Tuesday, March 2, 2021 — thousands of people are taking to the streets across the five boroughs. Armed with facemasks, gloves, hand sanitizer, more pens than you can imagine, and stacks of inconveniently-long papers, these determined New Yorkers…

The county organization nominated for judicial candidates and endorsed a slate of city council candidates.

For employees of New York City’s Board of Elections, donations to party bosses are often the key to professional advancement.

The Brooklyn Democratic Party leader who came under fire for making offensive remarks about Chinese people resigned Thursday night, paving the way for at least one mayoral candidate to rejoin a party-sponsored debate this weekend.

District Leader Lori Maslow resigned from office Thursday evening following a four-day boycott of the Brooklyn Democratic Party’s upcoming 2021 elections forum.

Local politicos are boycotting the Democratic Party’s upcoming elections forum, reiterating demands for District Leader Lori Maslow to resign.

Independent-minded judge transferred as Brooklyn Democratic Party machine looks for help from the the courts to ward off challenge from progressive reformers.