Sometimes a political candidate comes along whose platform and campaign statements are so outrageous, it makes you wonder if he/she is acting so odd on purpose in order to draw attention to themselves.  This year, we have one of those candidates – Dave Garretson, running for the NYS Assembly-134th Distrct.  Dave has definitely attracted my attention [...]

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The Buffalo News had a story on billionaire Tom Golisano’s political efforts (headed by notorious reformer Steve Pigeon) using a Democratic mailhouse (Atlas Direct) that sent out mailings that violated the league of woman voters fair campaign pledge earlier this year on behalf of RIChard Dollinger and David Nachbar.
Don’t get us wrong, we are not [...]

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The below is from an article from the Chicago Tribune
Violent crime continued to rise in Chicago after a deadly July 2008 in which 62 people were killed, according to unofficial numbers provided by a police source.
That’s more deaths than the number of Soldiers killed in Iraq since May of this year. I have to ask [...]

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Monroerising.com’s feelings about the Democrat and Chronicle’s editorial board are well documented, but now we feel the need to speak out on a dumb editorial in this week’s Messenger Post.  They are advising Governor Paterson to veto Senator Jim Alesi’s bill prohibiting “big oil” from zone pricing.
From the editorial:
One local lawmaker, state Sen. James Alesi, [...]

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