Mitt "I'm The Only Sane One If You Discount Jon Huntsman" Romney is scheduled to visit Borough Park Brooklyn next month for a sit-down fundraiser with representatives from the Orthodox Jewish community. According to Gestetner Updates, Romney is due to pick up $100K from the visit, well shy of the $400K he earned from a September visit to Queens. Naturally, Bob Turner thinks that Romney is trying to pull a Bob Turner on a national level. "It’s an important recognition of what happened in my race. This is an awakening of a new political force," Turner tells the Post. "The Jewish community is a force to be reckoned with…They went to my side in a very large way.” more ›

Now that former New York City mayor and current bridge Ed Koch feels that he got what he wanted out of his support for winning GOP candidate Bob Turner in Anthony Weiner's former district, he's ready to be friends with Democrats again. "I believe the recent vote in the 9th Congressional District in New York affected in a positive way the policy of the U.S. on the Mideast," Koch wrote in an email blast to supporters. "I'm now on board the Obama Reelection Express." Yeah, doesn't it feel good to get off the "Backstabby Crybaby Bus?" more ›

So Bob Turner won the special election for Anthony Weiner's old seat and today was his first day on the job. How long did it take the former TV executive to make a gaffe? Oh, no time at all! Cue the C-SPAN! more ›

The special election to replace Anthony Weiner in Congress (for a year at least) is going on right now, which means the onslaught of robo-calls directed at potential Brooklyn and Queens voters in the ninth district is finally almost over. Soon enough we will find out if last minute automated messages from the likes of Andrew Cuomo and Bill Clinton will be enough to push Democratic Assemblyman David Weprin down to DC. In the last two polls Weprin was trailing Bob Turner, his nemesis in the GOP. Meanwhile, just in case you forgot about him, everybody's favorite bulging former representative with a Twitter habit, without whom none of this would be possible, is back in the news today! more ›

The special election for New York's ninth congressional district (a.k.a. Anthony Weiner's old seat) is tomorrow and children? It is shaping up to be a doozy. Because of the district's demographics—no Republican has ever been elected to the House in the largely Democratic stronghold that covers parts of Brooklyn and Queens—many thought this would be an easy victory for Democratic Assemblyman David Weprin. But with less than 24 hours till the polls open, Weprin is trailing Republican Bob Turner by six points in yet another poll. Luckily for Weprin, robo-Andrew Cuomo is ready to make some phone calls today! more ›

The race to replace Anthony Weiner in Congress is getting busy as a bee as it heads into the final stretch before Tuesday's special election. Just as polls show Republican Bob Turner taking the lead in the race [PDF], we've got The Donald stepping in to support him, an attack ad from Democrat David Weprin being pulled almost immediately because it used imagery of a plane flying over lower Manhattan (which was "as dumb as President Obama sending Air Force One over the Statue of Liberty for publicity shots," according to a Turner spokesman), yet more anti-Turner ads and one last, relatively unexciting, debate for good measure. In the end, David Weprin's only hope may very well be his wicked dance moves: more ›

The final battle for Anthony Weiner's vacated ninth district seat will come to a head next Tuesday—Democratic candidate David Weprin seemed to have the hometurf advantage, but Republican candidate Bob Turner has netted himself some big-name backers, including Ed Koch and The Mayor Of 9/11 Town. But none of that matters now, because Big Poppa Donald Trump has entered the building. more ›

The special election to take Anthony Weiner's seat in Congress is coming up fast (next Tuesday!) and the race is a tight one. Despite being in a heavily Democratic area the Republican nominee, Bob Turner, has picked up a strong string of endorsements (not just former mayors Ed Koch and Rudy Giuliani but also the editorial boards at the Post and the News) and is nipping at the heels of Democratic candidate David Weprin, who is fighting back with a quarter-million in television ads. But Dems are starting to get antsy that this race is way too close for comfort. "The idea that this race is so close is a humiliation for the Democratic Party," a New York Democratic official told the Post. Also? Jerry Springer is a relavent character in this whole thing! No, really. more ›

The race to fill Anthony Weiner's congressional seat just gets stranger. After last week's packed debate and knowledge-based gaffes on the parts of both candidates, today brings a new twist on the road to the September 13 special election. Citing the weather, Democrat David Weprin has dropped out of tonight's planned debate against Republican Bob Turner. Even though Bob Turner was the candidate who was forced to evacuate this weekend. more ›

The race to replace Anthony Weiner in New York's ninth congressional district has now moved into the "wait, really?" phase. While Republican candidate Bob Turner is really trying to make it all about Obama and the Democratic candidate David Weprin is working on getting some cross-party support (Republican Queens councilman Peter Koo just endorsed him) it appears that maybe both candidates probably ought to brush up on the district they are looking to represent before anything else? more ›

Bob Turner, the Republican candidate to fill Anthony Weiner's seat in Congress, continues to use 9/11 as a campaign tactic as if he were Rudy Giuliani (who, incidently, endorsed him). Turner's newest tactic? Complain about how the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act went too far. And he's still against the "Ground Zero Mosque." more ›

So, the Ninth District election in September could come down to gay marriage? The candidates in the increasingly tight special election for Anthony Weiner's likely-lame duck seat have been racking up unsurprising endorsements (Giuliani for Bob Turner! Schumer for David Weprin!), and that is all well and good. However it seems that the Orthodox Jews in the area are grinding their teeth over the logic Weprin used when he voted to support marriage equality in the state Assembly earlier this year. more ›

Republican Bob Turner, who got 40 percent of the vote in the last election, is making a second stab at Anthony Weiner's old seat. He will be representing the Republican party against democratic rival, Assemblyman David Weprin, in a special election on September 13. more ›

Since Anthony Weiner resigned there has been much murmuring about who would take his probably lame-duck Ninth District seat come the special election on September 13. And today we are a little closer to the answer. The Democratic nominee for the seat will be...Assemblyman David Weprin, brother of City Council Member Mark Weprin and son of the late former State Assembly Speaker Saul Weprin. more ›