Many have speculated that Governor Spitzer has learned some important lessons after his first year in office: he needs to be kinder and gentler to accomplish his political goals; he needs to avoid the temptation to send the state police after his political rivals; he needs to avoid situations where he might scream profanity and launch spittle [...]

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Media reports indicate that Rudy Giuliani is going to drop out of the Presidential race and endorse John McCain.  It really is sad.  Giuliani would make a great President.  Look at what he did for New York City. 
It’s easy to forget how bad things were in the Big Apple.  My husband and I lived downstate and [...]

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Monroerising.com recently heard from Brighton Supervisor Sandy Frankel, who took exception to a couple of posts we had last week — one on a dispute between Brighton and the state DOT regarding night contruction and the other on the lack of Democratic candidates running for the state senate.
Whether you agree with her or not, you [...]

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Sorry it took so long, inlaws in from out of town, sick kids and a demanding boss, but I finally finished my research on Richard Beebe’s campaign finance reporting violations.  Here is the text of what Monroerising sent to the State Board of Elections.
In reviewing the campaign disclosure reports of Monroe County Legislator Richard Beebe, it is [...]

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This is the second installment in a regular series (here’s the first installment) highlighting ridiculous legislation supported by Democrats in Albany.  The take-away message is that the Republicans better keep the Senate or this sort of nonsense will become law in our fine state.
This week, we’ll take a look at a piece of legislation proposed by Governor Steamroller himself: [...]

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Good news, Jim Walsh is retiring from Congress.  Liz Benjamin of the Daily News lists Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks as a possible candidate for his seat.
We at monroerising doubt Maggie would be leaving Monroe County, she’s much too important to the local Republicans. 
What about Stephanie Aldersley?  Don’t forget Walsh cleaned her clock in 2002 and [...]

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One of the bromides of politics is that serious candidates thinking of challenging incumbents start to show some type of activity after the first of the year. Take a look at the Congressional races, announced opponents for Walsh, Kuhl and Reynolds.
But what about the big names who are thinking about running for State Senate?  David Koon [...]

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Sadly, it’s Politics. 
What is going on with the local Democrats lately?  First we learned about Assemblyman David Gantt and his cronies aggressively pushing a female police officer; then we have newly elected County Legislator Dick Beebe ignoring NYS Election Law by not filing financial reports; and now Brighton Supervisor Sandy Frankel is basically telling her constituents and citizens throughout [...]

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Evidently our public outing of County Legislator Richard Beebe has paid off.  He finally filed those legally required financial disclosure forms we first told you about in the beginning of the week.  75 days late is better than never I guess.  I’ll be going over them next week and will have a post on it [...]

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Yesterday morning, I watched the video of the fracas at the County Legislature.  After my initial reactions (disbelief, shock, indigestion…no that last one was caused by the coffee at my office.  You’ll have to trust me, it’s horrible), I wondered aloud how the Democrat and Chronicle would cover the story.  I figured they would probably [...]

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