George Pataki

  • Money trails lead to Bush judges

    A four-month investigation reveals that dozens of federal judges gave contributions to President Bush and top Republicans who helped place them on the bench. A Salon/CIR exclusive.
  • "I am not an appendage"

    District attorney Jeanine Pirro, who's opposing Hillary Clinton in New York, hopes to separate herself from her husband's sleazy business dealings. Good luck.
  • A green revolt against Bush

    In an embarrassing rebuke to the White House, a group of Republican and Democratic governors is embracing the Kyoto accords on global warming.
  • New York takes back 9/11

    The city comes alive with art and music and sadness, as New Yorkers rescue the anniversary from kitsch and voyeurism and political opportunism.
  • Andrew Cuomo's attitude problem

    He was supposed to be the Democrats' best chance to defeat New York Gov. George Pataki in November, except for one small problem -- people just didn't like him.
  • Noelle Bush gets rehab, the poor and black get hard time

    Fed up with draconian drug penalties, a coalition led by angry mothers is threatening to overturn some of the country's harshest laws.
  • Politics in a post-Sept. 11 world

    "Andrew," a Cuomo aide tells the Democratic challenger to New York Governor George Pataki, "what you have to understand is that they're going to run commercials with images of Pataki pulling out bodies."
  • Homeboy in the 'hood

    In the Democratic bastion of Harlem, George W. Bush further outlines his education plan while taking a swipe at the GOP.
  • He vs. she, part 1

    Even new resident Monica can't handle this one, as Rudy and Hillary prepare to take their fearsome domestic quarrel to upstate New York.
  • From red-line to renaissance

    Things are looking up in Harlem, but some poor black families are being driven out by the neighborhood renewal.
  • "Primary Colors" II

    Hillary Clinton builds a New York Senate campaign staff on a foundation of 1992 Clinton loyalists, as Rudy Giuliani fumes.
  • New York stakes

    The GOP is putting out a line that Hillary Clinton's entry into the Senate race would hurt Al Gore's presidential bid, but the opposite is true.
  • Where does Elizabeth Dole really stand on abortion?

    The question won't go away.
  • Where does Elizabeth Dole really stand on abortion?

    She's dodged it for 20 years -- but the question won't go away.
  • Senator Strongarm

    How Al D'Amato threatened African AIDS funding to help a big campaign contributor.
  • Senator Strongarm

    New York Sen. Alfonse D'Amato threatened to cut Zimbabwe's AIDS funding to protect the interests of a big corporate contributor.

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