Paul Vallone
Vallone & Vallone & Vallone
Here's a nifty example of extra-campaign profile-boosting for a couple of local office-seekers, in the form of an ad for the family law firm Vallone & Vallone, from the Queens Gazette. read more »
Older Vallone Helps Younger Vallone Raise Money
A reader passed along this fund-raising email pitch sent out by former City Council Speaker Peter Vallone Sr., who is helping his son, Paul Vallone, raise money for a City Council race in Bayside Queens.
The older Vallone, now a major lobbyist, wrote: read more »
A Republican Will Run in Vallone Country
Welcome Republican operative Robert Hornak officially to the 2009 race for City Council.
Hornak, who has been raising money to run for the Astoria seat that Peter Vallone Jr. will be term-limited out of, is having a kick-off event on February 2 featuring: Niger Innis, Herb London, Queens G.O.P. leader Phil Ragusa, and the unmistakable Curtis Sliwa. read more »
The Vallone Empire Branches Out
Can the Vallone Dynasty expand to Bayside?
Paul Vallone confirmed he is planning to run for the City Council in the eastern Queens district that includes Bayside and parts of north Flushing. (He filed his paperwork with the city Campaign Finance Board about two weeks ago.)
“Yeah it is interesting,” Paul told me just now. “It’s going to be the first Vallone not in Astoria. It’s like a fish out of water.”
Paul, 40, a lawyer working in Astoria, added, “I’m not going to be the guy to open up an apartment someplace just so I can run here. My home is there now, so.”
More after the jump. read more »
