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	<title>Artvoice Daily &#187; Steve Pigeon</title>
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		<title>Reunited</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/25/reunited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like Mayor Byron Brown and Steve Pigeon are together again, again. Their on again, off again political relationship appeared to be down for the count just two months prior to the September 15 Democratic primary, in the fallout of the NYS Senate coup that stalled Albany this summer. At the time, the Buffalo News [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Pigeon Helping Arlen Specter</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/18/steve-pigeon-helping-arlen-specter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arlen Specter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Menendez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katz Watson Group]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=3666</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to liberal blog Daily Kos, former Republican, now Democratic Senator Arlen Spector from Pennsylvania will be the benefactor of a reception next Tuesday at the Regency Hotel on Park Avenue, Manhattan, NY. Steve Pigeon, fresh off his NYS senate coup, is on the committee for the event. The event chair is New Jersey senator [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOP Takes Control of NYS Senate</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/08/gop-takes-control-of-nys-senate/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/08/gop-takes-control-of-nys-senate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Albany Times Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dean Skelos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiram Monserrate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York State Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pedro Espada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Pigeon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Golisano]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=3519</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A power shift has taken place in Albany today, according to this story from the Albany Times Union. Dean Skelos is the new majority leader after Senators Hiram Monserrate, D-Queens, and Pedro Espada, D-Bronx switched their allegiance. Thus ends Malcolm Smith&#8217;s tenure as majority leader.
Meanwhile, the Web site for biweekly political paper City Hall says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dirty Politics</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/02/05/dirty-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/02/05/dirty-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Illuzzi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mothers and fathers Demanding Answers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Responsible New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sam Hoyt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Pigeon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syaed Ali]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=1748</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
WNYMedia&#8217;s Chris Smith has posted some of the anonymous emails that gave birth to the Syaed Ali affair last summer:
These emails surfaced shortly after a shadowy political organization loosely affiliated with Steve Pigeon and Responsible New York called Mothers and Fathers Demanding Answers launched a scandalous and anonymous campaign targeting one of Pigeon’s longtime adversaries, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paint the Town</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/11/14/paint-the-town/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/11/14/paint-the-town/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Gioia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Collins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erie County Democrats]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[La Nova]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray Light]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Bridge Authority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Gioia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Wilmers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seneca Gaming Corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Pigeon]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=1314</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Late last night, at the tail end of one of the few weeks in the past year in which we did not publish anything snarky about anybody, someone threw two gallons of paint on our front doors. Seems a waste; we hadn&#8217;t even earned it. Nonetheless, we were cleaning up all morning.
Last week, sure, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That Pigeon Won&#8217;t Fly</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/11/06/that-pigeon-wont-fly/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/11/06/that-pigeon-wont-fly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Responsible New York]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=1257</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another example, this one two years old, of the way Steve Pigeon&#8217;s political committees are alleged to steer money to candidates illegally.
On September 15, 2006, the Pigeon-controlled PAC Citizens for Fiscal Integrity paid &#8220;RUR Strategy Group&#8221; $9,000 in consulting fees, according to CFI&#8217;s campaign finance disclosure forms.
That should be &#8220;RWR,&#8221; not &#8220;RUR,&#8221; and I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chasing Pigeon: The Bad Reporter</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/10/28/chasing-pigeon-the-bad-reporter/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/10/28/chasing-pigeon-the-bad-reporter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bruce Battaglia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Hudson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niagara Falls Reporter]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=1215</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In this week&#8217;s Niagara Falls Reporter, editor Mike Hudson writes:
Speaking of the Buffalo News, you may have noticed that Bob McCarthy &#8212; who seems to be assigned to the Tom Golisano beat &#8212; didn&#8217;t write a word about the Buffalo Sabres owner&#8217;s $10 million gift to Niagara University a couple of weeks ago.
It was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chasing Pigeon: The GOP Joins the Chase</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/10/24/chasing-pigeon-the-gop-joins-the-chase/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/10/24/chasing-pigeon-the-gop-joins-the-chase/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barbra Kavanaugh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citizens for Fiscal Integrity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeremy Toth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Mesi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Steve Pigeon]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=1173</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today Buffalo News politics reporter Bob McCarthy writes that GOP county election commissioner Ralph Mohr is asking DAs an three counties—Erie, Genesee, and Niagara—to investigate Steve Pigeon&#8217;s squirrelly campaign finance maneuvers. In doing so, he joins Sam Hoyt operative Jeremy Toth, who has asked the DAs in Erie, Monroe, and Albany counties to investigate Responsible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chasing Pigeon: Past Is Prologue</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/10/10/chasing-pigeon-past-is-prologue/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/10/10/chasing-pigeon-past-is-prologue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jermey Toth]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=1139</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In making his case that Responsible New York—the political committee endowed with five million of Tom Golisano&#8217;s dollars and operated by former Erie County Democratic Party chairman Steve Pigeon—coordinated illegally with the committees of the candidates it supported, Sam Hoyt supporter Jeremy Toth refers back to North District Common Councilmember Joe Golombek&#8217;s primary challenge to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chasing Pigeon</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/10/09/chasing-pigeon/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/10/09/chasing-pigeon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barbra Kavanaugh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Clark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack O'Donnell]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=1129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Throughout the Sam Hoyt-Barbra Kavanaugh campaign and after it, Hoyt supporter Jeremy Toth accused Responsible New York—the commitee funded by Paychex founder and Sabres owner Tom Golisano and managed by former Erie County Democratic Party chairman Steve Pigeon—of illegally coordinating its activities with Kavanaugh&#8217;s operation.
Unauthorized committees can spend as much as they&#8217;d like to support [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never Give Up the Fight</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/09/16/never-give-up-the-fight/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/09/16/never-give-up-the-fight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dennis Ward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erie County Democrats]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=863</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Democratic committee members, who meet on Saturday at Hearthstone Manor for the post-primary re-organization meeting, received a flier in the mail attacking current county chairman Len Lenihan and elections czar Dennis Ward. I posted it below.
Now those same committee members are receiving a new flier peddling the same message:

Still no word on who these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No, It Was Barzini All Along</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/09/11/no-it-was-barzini-all-along/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/09/11/no-it-was-barzini-all-along/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jeremy Toth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mike locurto]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Steve Casey]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=833</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know why I take local politics so seriously, when I&#8217;d be better off doing analysis First Amendment Club style (from today&#8217;s Buffalo Rocket):

Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli!
(The Godfather of Primary Seasons!)
This year, the Democratic Party was going about its family business when its capo, Sam Hoyt, decided to stop on Elmwood Avenue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clarification from Tom Golisano</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/09/05/clarification-from-tom-golisano/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/09/05/clarification-from-tom-golisano/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Responsible New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Pigeon]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=826</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Apropos this post and the one directly below:
Tom Golisano just called to say that I&#8217;m wrong to suggest Steve Pigeon is making any money administering the Responsible New York committee. He says Pigeon is a volunteer for Responsible New York, that he is receiving no consulting fees whatsoever.
Responsible New York&#8217;s filings with the New York [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Golisano&#8217;s Money</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/09/04/all-golisanos-money/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/09/04/all-golisanos-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=774</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Buck Quigley has been counting the campaign fliers that are pushed through his mail slot. But there&#8217;s more to follow on the money trail than glossy mailers.
In the last month, Responsible New York—the PAC created with $5 million of Tom Golisano&#8217;s money and operated by political hack Steve Pigeon—has issued $139,650 to Landen, LLP.
There&#8217;s no [...]]]></description>
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