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LOVETT: Donald Trump is Democrats’ new weapon in battle for control of New York Senate August 29, 2016 ALBANY — In the fight for control of the state Senate, Democrats have begun aggressively using Donald Trump as their bogeyman to help raise money for their candidates in crucial Long Island races. The new fund-raising emails and digital ad campaigns seek to tie Nassau County's Republican Senate candidates to... \| read more ››	Make the Road Action endorses Democratic candidates on LI August 29, 2016 A political advocacy group representing Long Island’s Latino communities has endorsed Democrats in a range of competitive local congressional and state legislative races. Make the Road Action, the political action arm of the 19,000-member Make the Road New York organization, said in a statement that it will back incumbent Rep.... \| read more ››
Marcellino files for ballot line, but Dems say he fell short August 28, 2016 Republican state Sen. Carl Marcellino, embroiled in a heated re-election fight, has filed petitions to get an extra ballot line, dubbed the Tax Revolt Party, for the fall election. But backers of his Democratic opponent James Gaughran said the Syosset lawmaker filed only 1,218 signatures, nearly 2,000 short of the... \| read more ››	Democratic Senate candidate targets Marcellino over education issues August 26, 2016 ALBANY- Democrat Jim Gaughran is working to make education policy a key issue in his State Senate campaign against Republican Carl Marcellino, who chairs the Senate Education Committee. Gaughran, the Suffolk County Water Authority chairman, is hosting listening tours on community education concerns and is calling out Marcellino, who has... \| read more ››
What Trump means for the NY down-ballot races August 15, 2016 Hillary Clinton’s strong lead in the Siena College poll of New York voters released Monday has many down-ballot Republicans worried that their voters will stay home in November. She’s leading Donald Trump among registered voters 57 percent to 27 percent — the biggest Empire State gap since the two emerged... \| read more ››	Senate candidates both focus on education August 12, 2016 While walking from house to house campaigning, Jim Gaughran kept hearing the same thing. “It seemed as if I kept meeting either a parent or a teacher, many times they were both, and they all wanted to know why our politicians didn’t seem to care about education,” he said. Gaughran,... \| read more ››

LOVETT: Donald Trump is Democrats’ new weapon in battle for control of New York Senate August 29, 2016 ALBANY — In the fight for control of the state Senate, Democrats have begun aggressively using Donald Trump as their bogeyman to help raise money for their candidates in crucial Long Island races. The new fund-raising emails and digital ad campaigns seek to tie Nassau County's Republican Senate candidates to... \| read more ››	Make the Road Action endorses Democratic candidates on LI August 29, 2016 A political advocacy group representing Long Island’s Latino communities has endorsed Democrats in a range of competitive local congressional and state legislative races. Make the Road Action, the political action arm of the 19,000-member Make the Road New York organization, said in a statement that it will back incumbent Rep.... \| read more ››
Marcellino files for ballot line, but Dems say he fell short August 28, 2016 Republican state Sen. Carl Marcellino, embroiled in a heated re-election fight, has filed petitions to get an extra ballot line, dubbed the Tax Revolt Party, for the fall election. But backers of his Democratic opponent James Gaughran said the Syosset lawmaker filed only 1,218 signatures, nearly 2,000 short of the... \| read more ››	Democratic Senate candidate targets Marcellino over education issues August 26, 2016 ALBANY- Democrat Jim Gaughran is working to make education policy a key issue in his State Senate campaign against Republican Carl Marcellino, who chairs the Senate Education Committee. Gaughran, the Suffolk County Water Authority chairman, is hosting listening tours on community education concerns and is calling out Marcellino, who has... \| read more ››
What Trump means for the NY down-ballot races August 15, 2016 Hillary Clinton’s strong lead in the Siena College poll of New York voters released Monday has many down-ballot Republicans worried that their voters will stay home in November. She’s leading Donald Trump among registered voters 57 percent to 27 percent — the biggest Empire State gap since the two emerged... \| read more ››	Senate candidates both focus on education August 12, 2016 While walking from house to house campaigning, Jim Gaughran kept hearing the same thing. “It seemed as if I kept meeting either a parent or a teacher, many times they were both, and they all wanted to know why our politicians didn’t seem to care about education,” he said. Gaughran,... \| read more ››