This is pretty sad, but I guess it shouldn’t come as a shock.  According to the Democrat and Chronicle, the chairmen from the rural counties are sticking with second tier candidate Tom Reed for the Congressional seat vacated by Eric Massa. Five of the seven party leaders cited Reed’s willingness to get in the race when [...]

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Former Rochester Mayor Bill Johnson doesn’t understand why Mayor Bob Duffy killed Ren Square.   Take a look at what he told Channel 10: Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy is being taken to task for his role scuttling the Renaissance Square project downtown and the criticism isn’t coming from county republicans; it’s coming form his predecessor, former [...]

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Maggie Brooks announced today reports of widespread fraud and abuse in the Democrat Governor Dave Patterson/Billionaire George Soros taxpayers funded buy-vote government handout program.  Businesses across Monroe County are reporting people using this money (supposedly intended for their children’s school supplies) for other basic necessities such as iPods, flatscreen tv’s, cell phones and video game [...]

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Rachel Barnhart is right onwith her take an Ren Square.  This makes me wonder why there isn’t objective reporting at channels 8 or 10. From the WHAM-TV reporters blog: In the end, the compromise was not a compromise at all. It was the mayor and his staff locking themselves in a room and hammering out a [...]

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Mayor Duffy and the Rochester City Council have chosen politics over progress and voted to change the plans for Ren Square.  According to the Democrat and Chronicle: City Council members this morning approved a redesigned Renaissance Square plan, one that project boosters say will spell the end of the project. Council members did not strongly endorse [...]

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I’ve never been a big fan of Ren Square.  But I have to give credit to County Executive Maggie Brooks for her vision on this project.  I think her support was well intentioned — revitalize a blighted area with a project that should help spur economic development. But Monroe County Democrats, Bob Duffy and City Council the [...]

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Wow, Harry Bronson needs to get someone new to write his stuff for him.  His piece in the D&C this morning was pointless garbage. Here’s the substance from Dirty Harry’s essay: Democrats support a collaborative style of leadership. We believe in working as partners to tackle fiscal matters, including coming up with ways to shift to [...]

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It’s time for Maggie Brooks to pull the plug on Ren Square.  Actually it’s past time.  We first suggested this a little over 1 year ago, after Joe Morelle used funds intended for Ren Square for other purposes. Today’s Democrat and Chronicle reports that Mayor Duffy is playing politics with the proposal. According to Mayor [...]

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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 [...]

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Boy, there’s so much in the paper today — I’m not sure where to start.  Let’s try the County budget. First, how about the headline in the D&C article?  No media bias there (a new entry for mustardstreet’s Tobin Challenge). Democratic “Leader” Harry Bronson had the same tired predictable response: “This administration has used the [...]

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