Friends, I found this clip from an interview County Democrat Party Chair Joe Morelle did with City Newspaper in December last year.
Anyone you think would be a good candidate for the 2011 county exec race?
I think we have a number of potential candidates. The one who comes to mind the quickest is the mayor. I [...]

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Friends, I learned today that our Senior Senator for the State of New York disrespects women.  On a flight back to Washington from New York City, he called a female flight attendant a “bitch.”  To make matters worse, he said it to his seat mate…the Junior Senator for the State of New York, Kirsten Gillibrand.  [...]

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Friends, I noticed in yesterday’s Democrat & Chronicle that the non-profit organization Action for a Better Community has received $8 million in federal stimulus funds.  Here is the article:
Agency gets $8M grant
Action for Better Community announced Monday that the agency will receive more than $8 million in stimulus funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment [...]

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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 wrote [...]

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Friends, we’ve known for quite awhile the Madame Speaker Nancy Pelosi is crazy.  But I submit to our readership that she is losing touch with reality.  For the San Fran Nan, there has always been a casual relationship between herself and truth.  However, it seems as if shes about to go off the deep end.  Pelosi [...]

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Friends, while local Democrat party officials love to claim that they believe voters should have a choice in our local elections, it seems that they are only talking about having a choice when the incumbent is a Republican.  When it comes to local Democrat officials, well, they deserve a free pass.
The Democrat & Chronicle reports today [...]

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Friends, with news yesterday that the White House is trying to drop the “public option” provision of the Congressional Health Care Bill, the liberals are crying foul and rallying the troops around socialized medicine.  Across the liberal media, the squawkers have been tearing the President, the man they wished to hold a coronation for over [...]

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Friends, as I pointed out on Tuesday, Majority Leader Pedro Espada got his son, Pedro Espada Jr. hired as the Senate Deputy Director of Intergovernmental Affairs.  After officially taking his post on August 6th, Junior resigned early this morning…marking the one week anniversary of employment by the Senate Democrats.
The Albany Times Union has the scoop:
In [...]

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Friends, Pedro Espada Jr., a 35 year old former member of the NYS Assembly and NYC Councilman and son of Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada has been hired by the Senate Democrats to act in the newly created position of Deputy Director of Intergovernmental Relations.  Democratic spokesperson and Malcolm Smith confidant, Austin Shafran, stated that [...]

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Friends, in a speech recently to the Young Americans Foundation college conference, former House Speaker and most likely future Presidential candidate, Newt Gingrich laid out his new plan for America.  As the author of the famed “Contract for America,” Newt believes that his new “2+2=4″ plan is what America needs to get back on track. [...]

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