What can I say, this is one of the most disgusting attempts at gerrymandering a district since we were stuck with Louise Slaughter. Problem is for Grisanti is, they left him with Grand Island. He has done squat for the Island. Everything he does goes out to his facebook page like a poll. What about the Grand Island Tolls? What about West River Road and the Parkway? The river front over there looks like crap. No longer can you even see the water because of all the overgrowth. The state took this over and they do NOTHING to maintain it and even refuse to plow the Parkway. Grisanti has been useless here and in Niagara Falls, at least they removed him from there but now they are stuck with King George Maziarz.
ALBANY — Senate Republicans today unveiled what they hope will be a more politically friendly seat for freshman Sen. Mark Grisanti of Buffalo, whose new all-Erie County district will become less Democratic and with far fewer African Americans voters. Read the rest of this entry »
The image in this story tells it all. She is angry and for good reason. Maybe Sheriff Joe should have been there to say something to him too. Suing the state of Arizona and he expects to be treated like a king when he arrives. There is a thing called the 10th amendment that ALL of our federal officials seem to want to ignore.
OBAMA HAS HEATED ARGUMENT WITH AZ GOV
Wed Jan 25 2012 18:33:56 ET
I have a feeling that we will not see primaries this year. Redistricting fought in court then early primary date, all this is doing is dragging out the process then we will hear from them that there is no time for petitions, so their will be no chance of challenging them in a new early primary. They know that the senate is vulnerable this year and will try to block any and all challenges to their power. We will be blocked out of the process just like here in Erie County last year.
Judicial activism got a slap in the face Friday when the US Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a Texas federal court had exceeded its brief by drawing new election districts that ignored the state Legislature’s own plan — a finding with more than a little significance for New York. Read the rest of this entry »
A pay raise for our inept legislature? I don’t think so.
by Jul Thompson
The State of New York has the most dysfunctional Legislature of all the 50 states. One need not look any further for evidence of that beyond the fact that we have simultaneously, among the highest overall tax burdens and highest poverty rates of anywhere in the nation. With the egregious amount the average taxpayer pays, our streets should be lined with gold. Or flowers. But certainly not trash, and pockmarked with potholes you can drive a small truck into. Read the rest of this entry »
Grisanti’s seat is key??? No, Grisanti was promised that as long as he flipped on his vote for gay marriage and went along with the millionaires tax his seat would be protected, his district gerrymandered and support from Cuomo and others with money. The gerrymandering of districts is nothing unusual, it happens every ten years. All politicos agreed to a non partisan, independent redistricting committee but now have thrown that idea out the window. The senate is doing theirs, the assembly doing theirs and Cuomo alone is doing congressional districts. It’s a sickening and disgraceful practice that gets done every ten years.
Lets get ready folks, this is our first TEA Party meeting of the 2012 election season. Want to hear what I’m thinking? Come on out, what I have to say will surely raise the ire of the political class.. : )
Mickey Kearns has been officially and unanimously endorsed by the Erie County Republican Party, tonight Jan 19th, with no dissenting votes. The keys will be to get the Republicans out to vote in this March 20th election.
He should be able to split the democrat vote and maybe even carry it in S Buffalo, so the key is to get the Republicans and Tea Party out to vote and even run fliers and the like. This will be the only item on the ballot, so getting people out may be a challenge.
There is enough info and quotes in here that I really don’t even need to comment. As always money goes to political cronies and favorites. I am sure that this new influx of $$ will be the same old crap as always. Nothing changes, we are stuck on stupid, we reelect the same people over and over and wonder why nothing changes. This state really is the definition of insanity.
Four decades of subsidies and high taxes haven’t arrested the city’s decline, but here comes New York’s governor with another billion dollars.
Why do cities like Buffalo decline, and what role should government play in promoting recovery? Read the rest of this entry »
