Check Out Sean's blog entry at The Albany Project

I could not have put it better. Sean laid out the case for reform in Albany and why this is the year to do it. Check it out at http://www.thealbanyproject.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3502. Pass it along. It's a great piece about this race, and the history behind this race. Paul Newell is a viable candidate and this race is not impossible.

Obamawitz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OBAMAWITZ

We have a new spin-off website at www.mypaulnewell.com .

It's the best thing since mybarackobama

The Capitol Article

Our campaign just got written up in The Capital, the article focused on the dynamic of the race and the difficulties that faces the challengers. Paul came off as cool and nerdy, which is exactly the kind of nerdy chic we want him to be(he's really more nerdy then chic). The ending of the article was great, Paul is too cool for school(not really, he's just too cool for Stuy).

Ross is out for the day due to whatever he ate while watching the Celtics Victory last night.
Evan is awaiting friends from out of town, ever the gracious host.


Cougar for Newell design is done, just need to find a t-shirt producer.

Thanks DailyPolitics

The Daily News' political blog just posted our entire M1-5 event invite for Paul Newell,on their website. Interesting that they picked it up because Arthur Leopold is one of our event hosts.

Kudos to the staff for coming up with creative names for ticket prices. It did take about half an hour to knock it out of all of us. What can i say, creativity from this bunch comes only at the last minute.

So the NY Sun Story about Luke Henry didn't pick up any traction and its been three days.

When is our big press day going to hit us??

Big Press Day #2

Why isn't anyone picking up the story!!???
Aronblue over at Daily Kos did a great summery of the news article, check it out here.

sorry about the lack of posting updates, but with our phenomenal petitioning effort, it's taking up all our waking hours. Stay tuned, I will be posting pics from house parties soon, and our big big big fundraiser at M1-5, with the Shivers!! if you want to come, drop me a email at Alex@newellnyc.org.

Big Press Day, But Not For Us.

The New York Sun just did a story on our race today, or more specifically on Luke Henry, another reformer running against Sheldon Silver. Two reactions. One, the story is completely unfair to Luke, b/c I think Luke is running for the right reasons. Two, OMIGOD, Luke Henry just got called a spoiler by the NY Sun. Obviously these are personal reactions. I hope the Henry camp are dealing with it well.

Here's the story:
http://www.nysun.com/opinion/stalking-horse-on-the-loose/80015/

In other news, California will be marrying same sex couples today, horray newlyweds!!!

position titles

We finally sent out the press release regarding the office and staff.

our go to guy on petitioning is Sean, but he wishes to be known as:
The Honorable Sean Herman III, Esq. and would like us to avert our eyes when addressing him.
Officially, Sean is our Petition Coordinator.

in other news, California's top court just opened that way for legalizing gay marriage in that state, so hopefully we won't be too far away. Go Cali!

HQ and Staff!

we've been in the office for a couple of days now, but we haven't officially press released it yet. but for those of you reading, you're getting the scope! we had new some volunteers coming today, so this place is up and running, all with the help of youth enthusiasm and the many many brews of coffee we make daily. we have a couple of events lined up, the 21st there's a meet and greet at the White Horse Tavern and the 22nd is our first official public fundraiser at Pianos (Tickets). Paul's birthday is the day before it, so it'll be double purposed event, birthday party!!

Stopping Shelly!

Hello readers, I think some introductions are in order, since you are reading this blog about me and what I'm doing. My name is Alex, I'm currently working for Paul Newell, Democrat for Assembly, as his deputy campaign manager. I'm keeping this blog to UNOFFICIALLY document our journey through this election process. It'll feature my comments and take on this whole election and maybe some daily tidbits that may or may not be newsworthy/interesting. Alternatively I was hoping this blog could provide you the world wide readers, and possible voters with a different look at local campaign that takes place in a world class city, NYC.

A little bit about my candidate, Paul Newell is a 32 year old community organizer, he's running against Speaker Sheldon Silver in the 64th district that covers the Lower Manhattan. Paul Newell is the first serious challenger Silver has faced in 22 years. We're hoping that by taking down the man who perpetuates the dysfunctional and broken system of "three man in the room", we can take back our government and make it work for the people again. http://newellnyc.org/

It is my second day at campaign HQ, and what a wonderful two days(for us political junkies). It might sound completely boring to some of you that I got ridiculously excited at the prospect of picking up voter registration forms(in Chinese and Spanish, you have to cover everyone!), but you have to realize that the more people we sign up, regardless of who they vote for, more democracy never hurts anybody. We're getting together lists, mailers, and whatever it takes to run a successful campaign, and I'm again ridiculously excited, so stay tuned people, because we're a sleepless campaign in a sleepless city. (b/c we just got a shipment of coffee, so that's keeping everyone up 24/7 esp. Evan, our campaign manager, the man answers his emails all the time! crazy...).

p.s. we're hosting our first public fundraiser at Pianos next Thursday the 22nd. it's Paul's birthday give or take a few hours, so we're all going to celebrate that along with all the other stuff. if you wanna drop by you can get tickets here : http://www.actblue.com/page/pianos

p.p.s. on a personal note, i just returned some book to the New York Public Library (i just got charge 28 dollars for overdue books, blahh), but i can't help feel that maybe Chinatown and Lower East Side could use more libraries, it was so crowded there!