Frances Martel

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio loves public events, and some are worrying that it is getting in the way of his governing. He started off the week by dropping Punxsutawney Phil. Then he went on The Daily Show and joked

Despite Wendy Davis’s national name recognition, it appears the weeks of bad publicity are finally catching up to her campaign. Likely Republican opponent and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott raised three times the amount of money as Davis did in

In the midst of several overlapping scandals, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie took to the airwaves of New Jersey 101.5 to answer audience questions and once again denied involvement in the plot to close down the George Washington Bridge. Christie emphasized

While the wheels of the Wendy Davis campaign continue to spin in place, her likely Republican opponent, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, unveiled his new anti-crime program targeting sexual predators, child pornographers, and those who engage in human trafficking. The “Securing

The author of the now infamous “time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee” email refuses to testify or hand over documents to the New Jersey Legislature about last year’s politically motivated closing of lanes on the George Washington Bridge.

Wendy Davis has built her campaign around a provably false story of poverty and struggle as a single mother. Adding to the growing sense that she is not who she is selling herself to voters as, a report by the

Some Democrats are so concerned that the end of the Obama era means a return to Clinton party rule that they are going on the record attacking Hillary Clinton’s nascent presidential campaign. A number of veterans from Obama’s 2008 campaign told

With a deadline that many of those subpoenaed attempted to avoid looming, the New Jersey Legislature received its first round of documents related to its investigation of the bridge scandal threatening to engulf the Chris Christie administration. The legislative committee

“This is either an unfortunate coincidence or a cruel joke,” Daniel Garza writes in the San Antonio Express-News on the topic of Obamacare. Between its reliance on the young insured, an unintelligible Spanish website, and significant limits on doctor choice, the

For a candidate who owes her name recognition to a friendly media, Wendy Davis is having trouble not riling up the local press. Dave Mann of the Texas Observer writes that the extent to which her team is botching media

The documents requested from eighteen of twenty individuals and groups by the New Jersey Legislature tied to the investigation of Chris Christie’s bridge scandal are due today, but despite the official nature of the subpoenas, the Legislature is expecting to

A senior aide to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie subpoenaed in the ongoing investigations of lane closings on the George Washington Bridge has resigned. Christina Genovese Renna, who reported directly to former Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Kelly, said in

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s office sent a long, sharply worded email to supporters on Saturday attempting to refute Bridgegate mastermind David Wildstein’s claim that Christie knew of the lane closings before they happened.  After the administration’s initially tepid public

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been one of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s most vocal supporters since the bridge scandal broke last month. On Sunday morning’s Face the Nation, Giuliani continued to defend Christie against new allegations

“We hate traffic! We hate traffic!” yelled outraged rally-goers at a Super Bowl ceremony in New York City today as New Jersey Governor Chris Christie took the stage. The once popular governor had to hear boos for a second time

With officials all over the state objecting that victims of Hurricane Sandy have not received adequate funding to return to their homes, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is under fire yet again for another suspicious project paid for by Sandy funds.

It’s going to take more than Wendy Davis’s pink-shoed filibuster to entice more women into running for office. A New York Times report Friday highlights the lack of change in the number of female candidates and the decades-long struggle to correct

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani blasted publications claiming he said there was a “fifty-fifty” chance New Jersey Governor Chris Christie wasn’t directly involved in Bridgegate, saying he was only referring to what a New York Times article suggested. Speaking

The Christie for Governor campaign is looking to build up its coffers yet again but not to keep Christie in the governor’s mansion. The campaign, subpoenaed by the New Jersey State Legislature in its ongoing investigation of closures at the

Former Port Authority official David Wildstein promised he would talk when the time is right, and now The New York Times is reporting that the man who personally oversaw the closures on the George Washington Bridge last September claims Christie knew

Wendy Davis has plenty of scandal on her plate: the biographical lies, the ethics investigation, the seemingly years-long loyalty to the Republican Party. Last week, she suddenly revealed that she was campaigning on a pro-gun rights platform, but her photo-op