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timesunion.com - 2/2/2009
Democrats tap new face in 20th District -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NY
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ALBANY — Political newcomer Scott Murphy of Warren County was selected by Democratic leaders Sunday to run for the congressional seat vacated by Kirsten Gillibrand. Murphy, 49, the director of a Glens Falls-based venture capital firm, emerged as the party's choice several hours after a ...
timesunion.com - 2/6/2009
State employee: I get $93,803 for no work -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NY
— timesunion.com — ALBANY -- As he tells it, Randall Hinton is paid $93,803 a year to do nothing. He... spends much of his workday at the State Insurance Fund donning headphones, listening to rock 'n' roll, blues or classical tunes and his superiors are cool with that. ... (more) State employee: I get $93,803 for no work -- Page 1 -- ...
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Battle of Saratoga: Groundhog Day Update
The Next Right — NY Democrats have chosen their candidate to try and replace Kirsten Gillibrand in the NY 20th District special election. The have have selected "political newcomer" Scott Murphy a venture capitalist from Glens Falls to take on Assembly Minority Leader Jim Tedisco. I'm not sure holding a nominating meeting at a diner on Super Bowl Sunday was the best way to drum up awareness of a candidate whom the Democrats admit was unknown, but I'll take Democrat bungles as well as Republican brilliance on this one. In picking Murphy, the Democrats passed over well known former news anchor Tracy Egan, so evidently they think ...

NY-20: Dems Pick Scott Murphy To Run For Gillibrand's Seat
Daily Kos — With Republicans having coalesced around State Assembly Minority Leader Jim Tedisco as their candidate to succeed now-Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in New York's 20th Congressional District, the Democrats have countered with a lesser-known, but similarly promising candidate; former political operative and venture capitalist Scott Murphy. Murphy, 38, is a graduate of Harvard College (where he served as president of the campus' progressive newspaper, the Perspective). He worked as a Democratic operative in Missouri, serving on the staffs of Governors Mel Carnahan and Roger Wilson. He has touted his experience as a fundraiser in Missouri ...

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