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Exposing Michael Bloomberg

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:14:39 -0500

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

Gillibrand backs tax reform, troop pullout

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:01:38 -0500

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.

Mar 2 Harper's Public Forum: Is There a Case for Impeachment?

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:09:26 -0500

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

How much did you make this year advocating for paper ballots?

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 21:32:38 -0500

$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.

Sweet Victory: Progressive Caucuses Sweep the States

Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:18:17 -0500

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

Abramoff IS the Engine Behind Republican Power

Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:02:20 -0500

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.

A Letter to Bob Lang, cartoonist

Mon, 02 Jan 2006 21:49:53 -0500

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.

Candidate20CDNY

Mon, 02 Jan 2006 12:12:02 -0500

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Running in Upstate New York

December 2005

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Tuesday, December 20, 2005
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Republican Woes Won't Rescue Democrats From Their Confusion (Dante Chinni, Christian Science Monitor)

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 22:06:07 -0500

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.

another great quote.

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:45:25 -0500

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.

Apparently, the Iraqis want us out and blame us for the deteriorating situation.

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:38:41 -0500

Poll: What do Iraqis want? This poll was conducted for TIME, ABC News, the BBC, NHK and Der Spiegel by Oxford Research International

Fascism Then. Fascism Now? (Toronto Star article by Paul Bigioni)

Wed, 07 Dec 2005 13:22:16 -0500

Fascism Then. Fascism Now? [external]
Published on Monday, November 28, 2005 by the Toronto Star (Canada)
Fascism Then. Fascism Now?
When people think of fascism, they imagine Rows of goose-stepping storm troopers and puffy-chested dictators. What they don't see is the economic and political process that leads to the nightmare.

by Paul Bigioni

Observing political and economic discourse in North America since the 1970s leads to an inescapable conclusion: The vast bulk of legislative activity favors the interests of large commercial enterprises. Big business is very well off, and successive Canadian and U.S. governments, of whatever political stripe, have made this their primary objective for at least the past 25 years.

Why is Paris Burning: Urban Ghettos

Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:01:12 -0500

Why is Paris Burning: Urban Ghettos

Urban Ghettos are a universal problem of poverty and discrimination. The right wants repression, the left wants equality. The left can't achieve equality and of course oppression only works for a short time.

Only violence will end the inequality as the rulers will never give up without a fight. Racism is always used to oppress the weak.

http://direland.typepad.com/

Comment on article by Greg Palast

Sun, 13 Nov 2005 23:41:55 -0500

Economic Considerations of the Iraq War

http://www.gregpalast.com/printerfriendly.cfm?artid=471

OPEC AND THE ECONOMIC CONQUEST OF IRAQ

By Greg Palast

was a very sneaky article. In the guise of being "neutral" between the "neoCons and the State Department with Cheney as the traitor to the neo Cons he obviously tilted to the Neo Con anti OPEC position. However if you analyse who benfits from the different positions and the position of Likud which is to weaken and or destroy the Arab economies it becomes very clear why Palast sides with the Neo Cons.Obviously destroying OPEC will undermine the Arab governments and would particularly undermine Iraq. This would benefit Israel geopolitically. The major goal of the neocons.

PDA New York - External Articles

Exposing Michael Bloomberg

Gillibrand backs tax reform, troop pullout

Mar 2 Harper's Public Forum: Is There a Case for Impeachment?

How much did you make this year advocating for paper ballots?

Sweet Victory: Progressive Caucuses Sweep the States

Abramoff *IS* the Engine Behind Republican Power

A Letter to Bob Lang, cartoonist

Candidate20CDNY

Republican Woes Won't Rescue Democrats From Their Confusion (Dante Chinni, Christian Science Monitor)

another great quote.

Apparently, the Iraqis want us out and blame us for the deteriorating situation.

Fascism Then. Fascism Now? (Toronto Star article by Paul Bigioni)

Why is Paris Burning: Urban Ghettos

Comment on article by Greg Palast

Abramoff IS the Engine Behind Republican Power