Friends, in a recent story regarding attendance of legislative sessions by members of the New York State Legislature, the New York Daily News exposed Assemblyman and City of Rochester Democratic Boss, David Gantt, as one of the members who decided that they didn’t have to do their job all that much.  Amongst members who represent Upstate New [...]

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Friends, something that has seemingly been forgotten about in this whole Senate leadership ordeal has been the issue of Gay Marriage coming to a vote in the upper chamber. Before the June 8th vote for leadership change and rules reform, Democratic leadership vowed not to let it come up for a straight up and down [...]

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Democrat & Chronicle Editors were right on the mark with an editorial yesterday that called on Albany lawmakers to undo a very bad provision state Democrats quietly snuck in at the 11th hour to prevent discussion and debate.   Acting a bit overzealous in their quest to protect the rights of drug dealers/offenders over those of parents, educators, daycare [...]

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Friends, in response to Fred Dicker’s article in yesterday’s NY Post, I would like to present a list of the winners and losers of 2008 in Rochester and Upstate Politics.  Please feel free to add any that I may fail to recognize.
WINNERS
Joe Robach, Jim Alesi: Both incumbent State Senators faced heavy opposition from the Monroe County Democratic [...]

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Philbrick at mustardstreet.blogspot.com had a post last night that is hard to believe — Senator Jim Alesi is considering flipping parties.  This could be part of the ongoing dirty tricks campaign — like Joe Robach was going to flip — Randy Kuhl wasn’t going to run for re-election.  But who knows?
Here is Philbrick’s post:
Alesi To [...]

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Does anyone know what’s going on with Senator Jim Alesi’s campaign? We at monroerising.com are big fans of the good Senator and it is well documented that we believe the state Senate staying Republican is critical for the well being of our state.
We’ve seen little evidence that Senator Alesi is putting forward much of a [...]

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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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Unfortunately, we expect to be writing a lot of these.  RICHard Dollinger and his New York City political smear machine lead by self proclaimed extortionist Senate Democrat Leader Malcolm Smith, have sent a number of negative attack mailers out claiming that school funding has been cut and redirected away from Rochester to be sent elsewhere.
Well, [...]

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Even though gas proces are coming down, I still get steamed everytime I fill my gas tank.  I found an interesting story on WETMTV.com about wholesale gas prices.  Evidently, the working families party must run big oil.
According to the story, if you live in what is considered a wealthy area, wholesalers will charge you more money for [...]

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I know it wasn’t his original article, but I have to credit to Ganett’s Jay Gallagher for picking up on this story.
The Capitol, a new publication that covers state politics ran a story about state elected officials and candidates that could possibly serve as president of the United States, seeing as Barack Obama has little [...]

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