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  • Statement of Jonathan Tasini, Democratic Candidate for U.S. Senate
    01/21/10

    (To be delivered today at a rally in front of Goldman Sachs in Manhattan)
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    We are here today to give voice to the millions of people who are shouldering the cost—financial and psychological—of the unpatriotic and un-American behavior of those who run Goldman Sachs and the other banks and financial institutions who destroyed our economy. And we are here today to say: never again. We will not let the robbery of the American people happen again.

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  • Jan 21st at Noon: Protest the Bank Bonuses!
    01/18/10

    While Goldman Sachs Reaps, America Weeps

    New Yorkers joined us on January 21st at noon in front of the Goldman Sachs building, to protest the massive bonuses handed out to the very bank tycoons who caused this economic meltdown.

    It's time for these modern-day robber barons - and their apologists in the media and Washington - to hear the voices of a people who demand economic recovery for everyone, not just those in the top 1%.

    This event was co-sponsored by Democracy For America, Progressive Democrats of America, Democrats.com, United Auto Workers Region 9A, and the Tasini campaign.

    Watch Jonathan's speech here:

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  • Tasini Demands Wright Delay Manhattan Democrats’ Senate Endorsement
    02/08/10

    By Edward-Isaac Dovere
    City Hall News

    Jonathan Tasini has added his voice to the complaints about timing for the Manhattan County Committee’s endorsement vote for Senate, scheduled for Thursday at the State Democratic Party’s offices on Park Avenue South.

    In a letter being sent to Manhattan Democratic chair Keith Wright, Tasini charges that “it is clear that the February 11th vote is being held for one purpose only: to undemocratically ram through and endorsement for my opponent.”

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  • Jonathan Tasini Takes a Second Shot at the U.S. Senate
    01/26/10

    By N. R. Kleinfield
    The New York Times

    The long shot ate breakfast with his mother. She asked for campaign buttons for her friends. He handed her a dozen. She got worried. That many? Weren’t they expensive? Calm down, Mom, he said, they’re cheap.

    How could she not worry? Most of the long shot’s time was spent drumming up money so he could be elected United States senator from New York.

    He recently took a leave from his job to campaign full-time for the Democratic nomination. When he worked, he made $110,000 a year. Now: zero.

    The long shot’s campaign chest was in the vicinity of $100,000.

    It is what it is. Jonathan Tasini knows that. Last time around, pitted against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he was the 17 percent man, gathering that percentage of the vote in the 2006 Democratic primary. He settled back into his day job as a consultant for labor unions.

    That was O.K. As he put it now, “There was not one day that I thought I would win.”

    Now it’s primary time again, and the long shot is back in business.

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