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Join me @SquarePegDem and other panelists for the Noncitizen Voting Forum which will be at Hostos College in the Bronx on 11/13 @6:30 PM. Event Page here http://t.co/wEzr2JggXn Michael Benjamin is a consultant, a freelance op-ed...

You Can’t Touch This [Sen John Sampson breaks out his MC Hammer dance moves]! Federal Judge Dora Irrizary dismissed two "charges [having] to do with Mr. Sampson’s role as a court-appointed overseer for two foreclosed...

Late last month, the NY Times reported that defense lawyers for State Senator John Sampson argued that although "guilty" of embezzlement (for purposes of their legal motion), Sampson cannot be prosecuted because the...

Earlier in September, the Manhattan Institute’s Stephen Eide wrote an op-ed critical of public campaign financing as a cure for political corruption. He also took a critical shot at the exemption afforded labor union PACs....