Topic: James Tedisco

Democrat Scott Murphy wins NY's 20th Congressional District after Republican Tedisco concedesAlmost a month after a special election in a heavily Republican congressional district, the Democratic candidate claimed victory Friday when his GOP opponent conceded in a race that focused attention on ...

Democrat Leads by 273 Votes in Upstate N.Y. Election Battle

Susan Davis reports on politics.. The three week battle between Republican Jim Tedisco and Democrat Scott Murphy over a New York congressional district is heading to court today. With all but the contested ballots counted, Murphy holds a 273-vote lead over Tedisco ...

Republican Takes Lead in NY-20 House Race

Susan Davis reports on politics.. New York Republican Assemblyman Jim Tedisco is now leading by 12 votes in a special election for a U.S. House seat against Democrat Scott Murphy. A re-canvassing of the district voter machines added 37 votes to Tedisco's ...

New York congressional race tests Obama

Polls open Tuesday in upstate New York for a Congressional by-election putting President Barack Obama's economic recovery policies to their first electoral test.The candidates battling in the 20th Congressional District in the mostly rural north of the state are almost neck and ...

Tedisco Versus Murphy: A Deeply Negative Affair

ALBANYScott Murphy is a rich carpetbagger, out-of-touch with the needs of the average voters in the 20th Congressional District he hopes to represent because he actually grew up in Missouri. he cheats on his taxesjust like all those other Democrats, who have ...

Tedisco's First Ad

ALBANYHere's Jim Tedisco's first television ad in his race for Congress.It starts by introducing Tedisco as " the son of a foundry worker" and concludes by saying, "He fights for us because he's one of us. "It's just as warm and fuzzy ...

Source: Paterson to Call Special Election for March 31

ALBANYThe special election for the 20th Congressional District will be held on March 31, a source close to the process just called to say.David Paterson said, earlier today, that tomorrow he will announce a spring date for the election. The candidates for ...
ALBANYRepublican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said yesterday that the race in the 20th Congressional District is " "Appearing in the brick townhouse on Capitol Hill that houses the Republican State Committee beneath a portrait of the state party's last colossus, Steele ...

A Woman to Oppose Tedisco?

ALBANYNow that one early candidate to gain the Democratic nod to run for Kirsten Gillibrand's House seat - Saratoga County Democratic Chair Larry Bulman - is out of the running, the various Democratic chairmen will begin interviewing other prospective candidates this afternoon.Given ...

Tedisco's Booby Prize?

ALBANYAssembly Minority Leader Jim Tedisco will be the Republican candidate to succeed Kirsten Gillibrand in Congress, he announced this afternoon. He would also get more staff and more resources - even as a minority member - in Congress than in the Assembly. ...
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