Friends, I know its been awhile since I last posted here on MR, but I felt it was important to log back on a share a few post election thoughts. On a national level, I cannot believe how badly the Republican party once again screwed up a New York Congressional Election.  On June 30th, I [...]

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What a night for the local GOP — they won just about everything.  And local Democrats were left wondering how could this have happened. It is very simple.  All across the county Democrats pointed to problems but offered no solutions.  Candidates for county legislature pointed out the budget problems but had no plan.  They talked about [...]

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In a recent campaign mailer, Democrat candidate Mike Condello justified not voting in the 2008 Presidential Election. However, he failed to justify not voting in 8 other elections. “We appreciate that Mike Condello missed voting in the 2008 election due to the birth of his daughter even though his wife, and mother of his child, [...]

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Democrat Legislature candidate Mark Coon has really been running a nasty campaign against Legislator Rick Antelli.  So much so that the Fair Campaign Practices Committee has found that Coon violated the fair campaign pledge no less that four times.  Coon’s mailings have included a fake quote from ” local residents” that don’t exist; a doctored [...]

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Unable to find real people to back up their charges, Monroe County Democrats actually sent out mailings using stock photos available on the internet and claimed they were real Monroe County Republicans fed up with the local GOP.  Guess what?  They were found unfair.  From the Democrat and Chronicle: The problem the committee had was [...]

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Due to the apparent interest of the Leaders of D&C Editorial Board to give democrats the advantage in this year’s County Legislature races, any Republican that received their endorsement is obviously head and shouldes above their Democrat opponents and are not only deserving of the endorsement, but more so, re-election on Tuesday. They deserve to be [...]

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John Maurer is the Republican candidate taking on Democrat Paul Haney for the the 23rd District in the Monroe County Legislature.  Haney is the incumbent who was the former Finance Director under Democrat County Executive “Taxin” Tom Frey.  Haney is also the Vice Chairman of the Issues Committee for the Monroe County Democrat Party. Paul Haney is [...]

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The County GOP has a new commercial out. It’s all about taxes.

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Wow, as if not endorsing Tony Lafountain and Mark Assini weren’t enough.  How about the endorsements for County Legislature? They endorsed Mike Condello and said this about John Howland: Howland also has passion and is independent-minded. But the legislature needs a new breed. They endorsed Paul Haney and this to say about him: But Haney, a [...]

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County Executive Maggie Brooks announced the 2010 budget yesterday.  It’s good news for County taxpayers, but bad news for Monroe County Democrats.  Fortunately for Democrats, Jill Terreri tried to do their bidding in the story, claiming Brooks “beat back criticism”  that there wasn’t any long term planning. This was one of my favorite parts of [...]

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