Michael Bloomberg joined the Republican Party to run for mayor of New York City and left the Republican Party to position himself as an independent presidential candidate. Now that he has abandoned his presidential bid, our "independent" mayor is "quietly" writing personal checks to help the Republican Party maintain its control of the State Senate (AND THEREBY BLOCK ENACTMENT OF A PROGRESSIVE AGENDA IN ALBANY). Once again, Michael Bloomberg's actions do not match his high-sounding rhetorical criticism of party politics. Quite simply, the mayor is a fraud who joins, leaves and supports political parties not out of philosophical conviction and agreement with party principles but to enhance his own political ambitions. When it comes to political parties, all Michael Bloomberg really cares about is what is best for HIM. Ironically, independent Bloomberg epitomizes what is wrong with our political parties. Scott

The Register-Star, January 13, 2008
Livingston, NY

Gillibrand backs tax reform, troop pullout

By John Mason
Hudson-Catskill Newspapers

U.S. Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand strongly criticized the use of property taxes to fund New York’s schools, and said she would like to see 80 percent of U.S. troops out of Iraq in 12 months, at a “Town Hall meeting” Saturday at Livingston Town Hall . The hall was packed with about 150 people.

The announced agenda was property taxes, and the congresswoman had brought along two state experts, Geoffrey Gloak, a spokesman for the Office of Real Property Services, and Shelly Willett, an education and communication specialist with the Internal Revenue Service. But many other issues affect property taxes, and Saturday’s discussion touched on several, including voting machines, the Iraq War, impeachment and tree preservation.

HARPER'S MAGAZINE PRESENTS
IS THERE A CASE FOR IMPEACHMENT?
A PUBLIC FORUM FEATURING:

Lewis H. Lapham, editor of Harper's Magazine
Rep. John Conyers (D., Mich.), ranking member, U.S. House Judiciary Committee
Michael Ratner, president, Center for Constitutional Rights
Elizabeth Holtzman, member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee during Watergate
John Dean, White House Counsel to President Nixon and author of Worse Than Watergate
Moderated by Sam Seder, host of "The Majority Report" on Air America Radio

Thursday, March 2, 8:00 p.m.
Town Hall
123 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10063

$1.5 Million bonanza by vendors.
Submitted by Vicky Perry on Mon, 01/30/2006 - 5:13pm.
THE Daily News reveals what voting machine lobbyists got recently. Follow the (bi-partisan) $$.
$1,469,402 total in NY state for four years
$491,713 in 2004.
$468,346 in 2005.
Sequoia spent over half $$Million since 2002.
ES&S spent $299,133.
Danaher Controls Inc. spent $162,500 in lobbying fees -> Parkside Group -> Queens Democrats.
Sequoia doled out $180,000 -> Buley Public Affairs LLC. which emplys a former counsel to Senate Majority Leader Bruno and Albert Pirro, the husband of former Westchester District Attorney Jeanine Pirro.

by Katrina vanden Heuvel
Published on Sunday, January 22, 2006 by The Nation
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0122-28.htm

Letter to CNN...

RE: http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/17/abramoff.whitehouse/index.html

THANK YOU! Abramoff did not give money to Democrats... some of the indian tribes who hired him did... big difference, eh? Also it would be worth investigating exactly where Abramoff got the $100,000 donated to Bush. Was he using "personal" contributions as a way to illegally launder corporate "soft" money into hard money? Given that he was a Young Republican from a generation of radical rule breakers, it's likely that Abramoff has been central to the Republican Party's fundraising advantage for the past decade.

RE: Congressional Spy Agency http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/analysis/toons/2005/12/29/lang/index.html

I would classify this as Changeling/Blinder/Insinuendo (see key http://www.pdanewyork.org/node/199)... Congrats! A three-for gets you a little gold star.

The changeling rating comes from using one thing to justify an unrelated other. The IRS isn't exactly secret and it isn't eavesdropping on people.

The blinder rating comes from leaving out the inconvenient fact that Bush broke a specific federal law, while the IRS was instituted under federal law. Besides, virtually every abuse of the IRS I know of originated in the Executive branch, not Congress.

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from the November 29, 2005 edition, Christian Science Monitor

Republican woes won't rescue Democrats from their confusion

By Dante Chinni
WASHINGTON – OK, so now what?

If after last year's election you asked a Democrat how they would like to see the next 12 months unfold for the Bush administration, it would have looked a lot like the way things actually went. Oh, they wouldn't have wished for a national disaster like hurricane Katrina or hoped for more deaths in Iraq, but Howard Dean probably had a few dreams of the wheels coming off this administration in the way that they have.

Bush's search for a new groove

However improbable the odds at this point or modest his short-term goals, aides say, Bush still subscribes to Rove's long-held dream that his will be the transformational presidency that lays the groundwork for a Republican majority that can endure, as Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal coalition did, for a half-century or more. Once he gets past the midterm elections, Bush plans to introduce a concept that, if anything, is even more ambitious than his failed Social Security plan: a grand overhaul that would include not only that program but Medicare and Medicaid as well.