A newly assembled state Republican Strategic Planning Commission gathered Thursday in a conference room of a Cheektowaga hotel to hold its first round-table strategy session, designed to attract top talent for public office and grow the party’s appeal with voters.
Cleaning off the desk after the most compelling election of our time:
• Score one for Erie County Republican Chairman Jim Domagalski and his sponsorship of suspended Buffalo detective Dennis Delano for the State Senate. It was a long-shot from the get-go, but actually offered 58th District voters ...
Five Erie County lawmakers now are willing to downsize their Legislature. The three Republican members called a news conference Friday to say they back a recent suggestion to drop the Legislature from 15 lawmakers to nine, since it conforms with a proposal they made last year.
It was "Fun With Numbers Day" on Wednesday for the candidates vying to succeed Thomas M. Reynolds in Congress, as some spun campaign treasury reports to underscore their financial strength heading into the primary and general elections.
On the day after campaign finance reports were due in Washingt...
Dennis A. Delano, one of the Buffalo Police Department’s best-known officers, acknowledges he knows little about the ways of Albany.
But as he officially announced his Republican candidacy for the State Senate on Tuesday in the lobby of Statler Towers, the veteran Cold Case Squad detective said 30...
Christopher J. Lee not only officially announced his Republican congressional candidacy Wednesday, but also latched on to an increasingly popular campaign theme around these parts.
“I am not a career politician,” he told about 50 supporters outside Amherst Town Hall. “I am a local businessman with...