Archive for July, 2006
Posted in July 20th, 2006
News - Battle Of Words Between Two WNY Politicians.
Democratic Assemblyman Sam Hoyt and Democratic Councilman Joe Golombek have a stormy political history. It erupted into a barrage of name calling outside the Board of Elections Wednesday.
Golombek said : “A 12-year incumbent who has a record of simply being a member of the status quo — […]
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Posted in July 20th, 2006
N.Y.’S CROOKED POLS: ROBBING THE PUBLIC BLIND
THE ISSUE: Charges of corruption against Assemblywoman Diane Gordon.
State Assemblywoman Diane Gordon should seek guidance from Assembly Speaker Sheldon “Slick” Silver (”One Public Servant’s Dream,” Editorial, July 12). He also feeds at the public trough, but he is smarter in the way he does so.
Silver makes his job produce […]
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Posted in July 20th, 2006
That line from Joe Golombeck today on channel 2 News has to be the election line of this season! Joe said that today about assemblyman Sam Hoyt when good old Sam crashed Joes Press Conference to expose Maria Whyte (Erie County legislature’s majority leader)
Seems Sam Hoyt has been moving his people into place in the […]
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Posted in July 19th, 2006
Legislature selling future for presents
The lack of fiscal restraint being displayed in Albany this year may bode well for incumbents seeking re-election in the fall, but elected officials in the state’s municipalities may be left to take the blame in 2007.
The Empire Center for New York Policy Tuesday said at least 36 bills to expand […]
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Posted in July 19th, 2006
INSIGHT
“The world is a dangerous place to live—not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” —Albert Einstein
“The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be.” —Socrates
“Right actions for […]
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Posted in July 19th, 2006
Budget post-mortem - Newsday.com
Albany went dangerously spending-crazy
July 18, 2006
“Drunken sailors” doesn’t capture it. What the State Legislature did, after an already bloated budget was supposedly set, defies any common metaphor. What lawmakers pulled off at the close of the legislative session, according to a recent report by State Comptroller Alan Hevesi, borders on white-collar crime.
The […]
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Posted in July 19th, 2006
Analysis shows Legislature driving up public worker pension costs
ALBANY, N.Y. — Lawmakers want to give unionized public employees _ who already get some of the best benefits in the country _ more sweeteners to pensions that are helping fuel New York’s high taxes, according to a study released Tuesday.
State lawmakers this year passed at least […]
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Posted in July 19th, 2006
Buffalo News - Blowing chance for change
Blowing chance for change
Erie County legislators prove roadblocks to taxpayers’ chance to decide on reforms
7/17/2006
The Erie County Legislature took the earnest work of unpaid volunteers trying to design a better county and smothered the effort in its crib.
Members appointed a commission to review the county’s charter to try to […]
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Posted in July 19th, 2006
HEADS UP - BREAKING NEWS - IRANIAN THREAT
REPORTS FROM IRAN STATE:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad has declared he will make an announcement on Wednseday July 19th, 2006 which:
“WILL LET THE MOSLEM WORLD AROUND THE GLOBE KNOW THAT AFTER THE ANNOUNCEMENT THEY WILL NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT ISRAEL’S NUCLEAR ARMS OR NUCLEAR CAPABILITY EVER AGAIN”
This […]
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Posted in July 18th, 2006
B’KLYN POL IS GOING ‘POSTAL’
July 17, 2006 — State Sen. Carl Andrews is raising eyebrows with a string of self-promoting voter mailings paid for by his Senate office in the midst of his campaign for a Brooklyn congressional seat.
Andrews, who’s in the Democratic primary for the 11th Congressional District - which overlaps with his […]
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