April 2008 Archives

The Atlantic  By Matthew Yglesias  April 30, 2008  Paul Newell is challenging Sheldon Silver in a NY State Assembly primary. That sounds a bit like a parochial local concern, but Silver is the super-powerful Speaker of the assembly and actually...

StreetsBlog  April 30, 2008  This is the second installment of Streetsblog's interview with Paul Newell, candidate for State Assembly in the 64th District, who's challenging Speaker Sheldon Silver in the Democratic primary this September. In this segment, Newell addresses...

StreetsBlog  April 29, 2008  Last week Streetsblog caught up with Paul Newell, who's mounting the first primary challenge to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver in 22 years. Discussing his candidacy, Newell made it clear that he is in it to...

Open Left  by Chris Bowers  April 25, 2008  Today, BlogPac is thrilled to announce our first endorsement in the Blue to Bluer campaign: Paul Newell for New York State Assembly. Newell is running against New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon...

For Immediate Release - April 28, 2008 -  Challenge to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver Receives Major Netroots Backing NEW YORK, NY - April 28, 2008 - Paul Newell, the first Democratic challenger to Sheldon Silver in 22 years, has received...

StreetsBlog  April 25, 2008  In what may be a political first, Paul Newell, who is challenging Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver in the 64th District, mentions "livable streets" as one of his three major planks in this campaign clip.  ...  The...

For Immediate Release - April 7, 2008 - NEW YORK, NY - Today, Paul Newell criticized Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's backroom dealings to deny accountable government to 19 million New Yorkers, saying, "Sheldon Silver's failure to even schedule a vote...

The New York Sun  April 25, 2008  ...  The group seeking to organize the debate is Democracy For New York City, a nonprofit political action committee affiliated with Democracy for America, which was founded by Dr. Dean after his run...

For Immediate Release - March 25, 2008 - NEW YORK, NY - Paul Newell today called for Sheldon Silver to stop pandering to special interests and stand up for the children in his own district by stopping his equivocating on...

Village Voice  March 7, 2008  In the spirit of reform, it's time for Sheldon Silver to fully disclose his outside income, so says a young upstart who's a big long-shot to unseat the state's most powerful Democrat. ..."Nothing dispels suspicion...

For Immediate Release - March 5, 2008 - NEW YORK, NY - Paul Newell, the insurgent Democratic candidate for NY Assembly challenging Speaker Sheldon Silver in Lower Manhattan, released his income tax returns today and urgently called on Silver to...

The New York Sun  April 9, 2008  ...  Mr. Newell is running on two issues: accountability and "affordable" housing, both of which, he said, Mr. Silver is against. He accuses the speaker of "blocking development of 'affordable' housing in downtown...

The Villager  December 27, 2007  Paul Newell, of Division St., has lived Downtown his whole life and told the crowd that not all of the neighborhood's changes are bad. "But when development comes and takes away access to affordable food,...

The Albany Project  April 8, 2008  Challenger Paul Newell is calling out Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver for his punt on congestion pricing. The fact is that no district in all of New York would have benefited more from congestion pricing...

The Albany Project  January 28, 2008  ...  Here's a message to us from Paul, who is an active member of the Albany Project community, introducing himself. I'm running for State Assembly to change the way Albany works.  For over...

The New York Observer  March 25, 2008  Last month, a market-research firm called my Lower East Side apartment to gauge my support for Paul Newell. I admitted that I had never heard Newell's name before, and the caller quickly...

Daily Kos  April 8, 2008   Paul Newell is a progressive voice for New York City: Paul Newell has fought for over a decade for progressive values. Whether working to elect progressive leaders, preserve Yiddish culture or bring needed services to...

"Rarely does one man (Sheldon Silver) have a chance to do so much harm to so many."  - NY Times Editorial, 4/8/2008    For decades, Sheldon Silver's Culture of Failure in Albany has failed New Yorkers and failed Lower Manhattanites. ...

No issue weighs more heavily on the minds of New Yorkers than affordable housing. The average rent of a two-bedroom apartment on the Lower East Side is now over $3,000.  NYC has a rental vacancy rate of 0.4% (as...

As a graduate of New York City Public Schools, Paul Newell knows the promises and challenges of America's largest education system intimately.   Quality Public Schools have long been the most important rung in the ladder to the middle class.  Paul...

The Rockefeller Drug Laws have destroyed thousands of Lower Manhattan families, skewed our law enforcement priorities, cost billions of dollars and utterly failed to address the crisis of drug use in our communities.   Thousands of children in this...

In America, equal access to civil rights should be sacrosanct.  Yet hundreds of thousands of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) New Yorkers are denied those rights every day.  It is high time that we commit to fully embracing...

TRANSPORTATION SOLUTIONS FOR OUR COMMUNITY, CITY & REGION While 2.3% of Lower Manhattanites drive to work, the vast majority of Downtowners use public transportation.  Silver's backroom deal on congestion pricing cost Lower Manhattanites too many urgently needed transportation improvements: ·        ...

Lower Manhattan has been the gateway to America for millions of immigrants.  For 200 years we have been enriched by welcoming people from around the world to our neighborhood. That history continues today, and the state government needs to...