Sad day for the Republican controlled Senate.
Johnson the apparent winner - Newsday.com
Democrat Craig Johnson has beaten Republican Maureen O’Connell in the highly-funded, high-profile race for state Senate.
With 95.45 percent of the unofficial results tallied, Johnson led with 24,666 votes to O’Connell’s 22,345.
“The odds were not in our favor when we started,” O’Connell told subdued supporters […]

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Whew, sparks will be flying it appears when they all meet in a joint session. What’s with Silver taking away the gavel from LG David Paterson ?
Capitol confidential » 142-0 (Updated)
The Assembly voted unanimously in favor of a calling joint meeting of the Legislature tomorrow to fill the vacancy in the office of state […]

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Thanks to Capitol confidential for the link..

STATE OF NEW YORK FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER […]

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A question was asked and now part of the answer is given… Where’s the Proof Hank?
I wish I had written this myself, if I only had the time to do all the research and find the links.
Thank you goes to Dan Riehl at NewsBusters for his article..
To add to some research […]

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This time it is Iraq Veterans, last time it was Vietnam Veterans.. I don’t care how any people feel about the War in Iraq, these Men and Women are doing their duty and obeying orders. If the temptation arises to fell, spit or doing anything harmful to these Veterans, don’t point your anger at them, […]

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Here is yet another article about the corrupt Independent Party in Erie County… Completely aligned with the Erie County Democrat Party. No wonder why I never got their endorsement, I couldn’t Pay enough for it. All of their endorsements are bought and paid for by Len Lenihan….
These are very serious allegations against not just Party […]

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Here is more on Orsini and the Independence Party posted at a new blog called hamburgfirst I’ll have to create another catagory for this party….
Anthony Orsini vs. Hamburg Independence Party

Many people enrolled in the Independence Party in Hamburg this year decided to try and organise and help change how party business is done in their […]

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This article just reminds us as to why the comptroller has to be independent and away from corrupt political influences… The pension money alone, this same pensoion money cost the taxpayers of NY millions upon millions a few years back when the stock market went in the crapper. Our taxes went up to recoup the […]

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Sounds like a professional bureaucrat to me… What does a school building authority do and I wonder how much that authority adds to the cost of building and or repairing schools? Hmmm, raises the eyebrows. Massachusetts is full of the same authorities and beaucracies as NY is. They did get rid of their tolls though. […]

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In a city full of ego’s I guess we will have to see who has the biggest one and can follow through with it. This will not take words, reigning in Albany will take action and follow through with policy. With a veto proof majority in the Assembly, it’s a clash of the titans.
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