State Senate candidate David Mejias was arrested Wednesday, charged in a domestic incident, after police said he followed his ex-girlfriend in his car, forced her off the road in Matinecock , screamed at her and then chased her when she tried to get away.

The incident took place on Piping Rock Road at about noon Wednesday, and Mejias, 39, of Puritan Lane in Farmingdale , was charged with second-degree menacing, second-degree reckless endangerment and third-degree stalking, Nassau County police said.

Naturally, Democrat political bosses are trying to keep a lid on Mejias’s arrest. 

Mejias campaign spokesman Akeem Henry did not immediately return a phone call Wednesday night. But he sent an e-mail message to reporters canceling a scheduled news conference at which Mejias was to receive endorsements for his Senate campaign.

Nassau County and state Democratic chairman Jay Jacobs also declined to comment on the arrest…

A spokeswoman for Nassau District Attorney Kathleen Rice said Wednesday that prosecutors had yet to receive paperwork on the case.

Hopefully, Mejias’ girlfriend follows through with pressing charges and doesn’t recant what happened in order to protect him after his campaign team gets to her as was suggested during the Monserrate abuse scandal.  We know our local media has no problem reporting on GOP officials from all over the state and across the country who mess up but they seem to be less inclined to report on stories involving Democrats abusing power, or women.

But maybe that’s changed and we’ll hopefully see this story covered out this way.

The well-known pro-Democrat/Working Families Party blog The Albany Project interviewed Mejias and praised him as a candidate.  He also has many endorsements from many liberal, leftwing special interest groups.  It looks like they all forgot to ask him about his stance on domestic violence.  Maybe after hearing that he’s ok with running his ex-girlfriend off the road when he gets pissed off at her they would have reconsidered supporting him. 

Maybe… maybe not. 

C’mon NOW-NY and all you self-proclaimed pro-women groups!  Don’t wait so long to say this abuser is a bad guy like you did Monserrate.

I wonder which of these liberal special interests will yank their endorsements and which rats will support him no matter what he does.

Editor’s Note:  The following is a verbatim cross-post from the Associated Press.  Read it and decide for yourself if you think the President is lying about some things or simply stretching the truth a bit.

FACT CHECK: Is Iraq combat really over for US?

By CALVIN WOODWARD and ROBERT BURNS

WASHINGTON (AP) – Despite President Barack Obama’s declaration Tuesday of an end to the combat mission in Iraq, combat almost certainly lies ahead.

And in asserting the U.S. has met its responsibilities in Iraq, the president opened the door wide to a debate about the meaning of success in the muddle that most – but not all – American troops are leaving behind.

A look at some of the statements Obama made in his Oval Office speech and how they compare with the facts:

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OBAMA: “Tonight, I am announcing that the American combat mission in Iraq has ended.”

THE FACTS: Peril remains for the tens of thousands of U.S. troops still in Iraq, who are likely if not certain to engage violent foes. Counterterrorism is chief among their continuing missions, pitting them against a lethal enemy. Several thousand special operations forces, including Army Green Berets and Navy SEALs, will continue to hunt and attempt to kill al-Qaida and other terrorist fighters – working closely with Iraqi forces. Obama said, “Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission,” while stopping short of a full accounting of the hazards ahead for U.S. troops.

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OBAMA: “We have met our responsibility.”

THE FACTS: That depends entirely on how the U.S. responsibility is defined.

Sectarian division – the danger that Obama said as a presidential candidate had to be addressed before Iraq could succeed – continues to deprive the country of a fully functioning government. U.S. goals for reconstruction are unmet. And although the U.S. says Iraqi forces can handle the insurgency largely on their own, Iraq is expected to need U.S. air power and other military support for years to control its own air space and to deter a possible attack by a neighboring state.

It was the U.S. that invaded Iraq, overthrew its government, disbanded its security forces and failed in the early phases of the conflict to understand the depth of Iraq’s sectarian and ethnic divisions and its political paralysis. The U.S. in some minds is responsible for putting Iraq back together again, yet today Iraq has no permanent government and its security forces arguably are not fully prepared to defend the country’s skies and borders.

In inheriting a war he opposed from the start, Obama did not accept U.S. responsibilities so broadly.

It will take time to see if his more limited view of success bears out. In May, he said: “This is what success looks like: an Iraq that provides no haven to terrorists; a democratic Iraq that is sovereign and stable and self-reliant.”

Al-Qaida terrorists are “not gone” from Iraq, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday. But he hailed “an important victory against transnational terror” because “al-Qaida in Iraq has been largely cut from its masters abroad.”

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OBAMA: “Unfortunately, over the last decade, we have not done what is necessary to shore up the foundation of our own prosperity. We have spent over a trillion dollars at war, often financed by borrowing from overseas. This, in turn, has shortchanged investments in our own people, and contributed to record deficits.”

THE FACTS: This is partly true. For sure, the costly Iraq and Afghanistan wars have contributed to the nation’s budget deficit – but not by as much as Obama suggests. The current annual deficit is now an estimated $1.5 trillion. But as recently as 2007, the budget deficit was just $161.5 billion. And that was years after war expenses were in place for both the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts.

Most of the current deficit is due to the longest recession since the 1930s. It has seriously depressed tax revenues while increasing costs to the government – including social safety-net programs such as unemployment insurance and spending by both the outgoing Bush and incoming Obama administrations on stimulus programs and on bailouts of banks and automakers.

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OBAMA: “This was my pledge to the American people as a candidate for this office.”

THE FACTS: At one stage of the presidential campaign, Obama spoke of an earlier departure of troops than he ultimately achieved. “I have put forward a plan that will get our troops out by the end of 2009,” he said in a January 2008 Democratic candidates debate. But his pledge for most of the campaign was to withdraw combat troops within 16 months, a promise essentially kept.

THE FACTS: At one stage of the presidential campaign, Obama spoke of an earlier departure of troops than he ultimately achieved. “I have put forward a plan that will get our troops out by the end of 2009,” he said in a January 2008 Democratic candidates debate. But his pledge for most of the campaign was to withdraw combat troops within 16 months, a target missed just by a few months.

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OBAMA: “Our dedicated civilians – diplomats, aid workers, and advisers – are moving into the lead to support Iraq as it strengthens its government, resolves political disputes, resettles those displaced by war, and builds ties with the region and the world.”

THE FACTS: Although Obama said the U.S. commitment to Iraq’s future does not end with the combat mission, he made no mention of an emerging debate in Congress over paying for the diplomatic mission the State Department says is necessary. Plans for U.S. diplomatic posts in Iraq already are being scaled back as Congress sees the winding down of the war as a signal to invest elsewhere.

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OBAMA: “Within Afghanistan, I have ordered the deployment of additional troops who – under the command of Gen. David Petraeus – are fighting to break the Taliban’s momentum. As with the surge in Iraq, these forces will be in place for a limited time to provide space for the Afghans to build their capacity and secure their own future.”

THE FACTS: Obama is reciting almost the exact language of the Bush administration’s rationale for the Iraq surge: to buy time and space for the Iraqis to reach political accommodations and to strengthen their own security forces. That’s quite a change from Obama’s stand as a presidential candidate, when he criticized it. Obama seems to be embracing the troop surge logic now, even though it’s clear that the Iraqis have yet to achieve the necessary level of reconciliation to form an enduring government.

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Associated Press writer Tom Raum contributed to this report.

“I enthusiastically endorse Carl Paladino for Governor of the State of New York,” said Michael Krusen Chemung County Republican Chairman. “As a businessman and attorney, Carl knows how to make New York’s government work for the people again. Carl has the passion, knowledge and ability to make the tough decisions that so desperately need to be made in New York.”

“Chemung County Republicans need to vote for Carl Paladino on September 14th,” said Krusen.

“I am thankful to receive the endorsement of the Chemung County Republican Chairman Michael Krusen,” said Paladino. “This election is about changing the way Albany works and I will lower taxes, cut spending and reform the status quo. As Governor I will do what it takes to bring New York back as the Empire State,” Paladino said.

Krusen joins a growing list of Republican County Committee Chairs endorsing Carl Paladino, including Richard Siebert of Genesee County, Ed Morgan of Orleans County, Cherl Heary of Cayuga County, Michael Norris of Niagara County and Nick Langworthy of Erie County. More County GOP leaders are contacting the Paladino campaign every day and announcements are imminent of other endorsements.

It’s too bad that anyone had to waste their time verifying this, but we finally have “the world’s leading climate change body” admitting that the supporting scientific evidence for their key claim that the Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035 was actually pulled from a magazine interview with a little known Indian scientist who now states that his claim was pure speculation and is not backed up with any supportive research.  Read the entire article here.

From the piece:

A high-level inquiry into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found there was “little evidence” for its claims about global warming.

It also said the panel had emphasised the negative impacts of climate change and made “substantive findings” based on little proof.

Ooops!  It also seems that the IPCC has quite a history of getting it wrong:

Among the blunders in the 2007 report were claims that 55 per cent of the Netherlands was below sea level when the figure is 26 per cent.

It also claimed that water supplies for between 75 million and 250 million people in Africa will be at risk by 2020 due to climate change, but the real range is between 90 and 220 million.

The claim that glaciers would melt by 2035 was also rejected.

Professor Julian Dowdeswell of Cambridge University said: “The average glacier is 1,000ft thick so to melt one at 15ft a year would take 60 years. That is faster than anything we are seeing now so the idea of losing it all by 2035 is unrealistic.”

How is it possible that such major mistakes are made?  It looks like we do know WHY the mistakes were very well made…. someone is making a lot of money off these false claims.

The review also cast doubt on the future of IPCC chairman Dr Rajendra Pachauri.

Earlier this year, the Daily Express reported how he had no climate science qualifications but held a PhD in economics and was a former railway engineer.

Dr Pachauri has been accused of a conflict of interest, which he denies, after it emerged that he has business interests attracting millions of pounds in funding. One, the Energy Research Institute, is set to receive up to £10million in grants from taxpayers over the next five years.

That explains everything.  I wonder if Algore got a taste for serving as the world’s loudest dumbest Global Warming cheerleader?

Once again our President becomes annoyed with a simple observation from one of his allies in the media. He bristles when Williams throws out there that it could be his own failure to communicate effectively. The plastered on forehead response was juvenile. Obama is not up to this job, the famous orator is a poor communicator and thin skinned. I have never been too interested in the birth certificate issue, the solution for him was always easy; produce the birth certificate and move on. Just another issue he handled poorly.

Well, well, well.  It looks like political scandals aren’t just found in Washington, D.C., New York City and Albany these days.  We have one of our very own right here in Monroe County.  Big time kudos to Democrat & Chronicle reporter David Andreatta for exposing an attempted political hit against Republican County Executive Maggie Brooks.  We at Monroe Rising are completely shocked that Andreatta got this one passed the liberal, pro-Democrat D&C censors.

Here’s the setup;  the radical activist group Center for Disability Rights doesn’t have it’s contract with Monroe County renewed for what I’ll call widespread lapses of care and borderline client abuse.  A report is released that shows very damaging evidence against CDR.  CDR buses disabled clients downtown and has them sleeping on sidewalks for about a week to protest.  A judge follows through with the County’s request to extend time for clients to choose better service providers and things appear to calm down. 

Or simply becomes what we now know to be more clandestine.

We now know the chain of events that followed.  CDR Executive Chris Hilderbrant contacts Democrat Mayor/Lieutenant Governor candidate Bob Duffy staffer, Darryl Porter to get a reference for self-proclaimed P.I. Susan Stiles to dig up dirt on Brooks to use against her for not renewing CDR’s contract.  Hilderbrant planned to use this “research” to personally and politically harm Brooks.    I wonder if Porter, Duffy or anyone else at City Hall or in the local Democrat Party have used Stiles to go after other Republican officials or even Democrat opponents not supported by the party establishment?

Hilderbrant brings Bruce Darling, his boss at CDR, to a secret meeting to go over the details of what they want done.  Stiles is told she will be paid well for her “services” and is given an initial payment.  After delivering some information, Hilderbrant and Darling must either not find the intel dirty enough or are beginning to get nervous about the shady and underhanded game they are playing.  Stiles is not paid the remainder of her financing and Hilderbrant gets what he determines to be a threatening phone call from a friend of Stiles.  He get nervous but instead of calling the police directly, he calls another Duffy staffer/former local Democrat party Chairwoman/former Duffy campaign manager, Molly Clifford.  Clifford was recently appointed to a fire administrator city job that people claim she wasn’t qualified to do.

Clifford puts Hilderbrant in touch with City Police Chief David Moore.  Moore assigns an officer to investigate but determines Hilderbrant was misleading about the matter.  Hilderbrant doesn’t files charges, apparently recanting his story about feeling threatened.  Now we have City law enforcement getting caught up in this issue and having their precious time wasted.  On top of all this, City Police apparently had no intention of informing Brooks about any of this and only did so after she reached out to Chief Moore after hearing rumors about what was going on.

On a side note, a Google search of Hilderbrant lists him as a former political candidate for County Legislature who ran on the corrupt Working Families Party line.  He was also endorsed and praised by the D&C Editorial Board.  Both of these tidbits made me laugh out loud when I read them.  His fall from grace is not surprising at all.

Read all about this failed attempt of a well-orchestrated effort to malisciously malign Maggie Brooks.

The bottom line is this, you have a powerful liberal political activist group with ties to local Democrat officials trying to damage a Republican elected leader who wouldn’t allow millions of dollars to continue to be funnelled to them because they failed to protect disabled residents in our community from abuse.  The leaders of the group interact with Democrat City officials in the Duffy administration to initially select a “political hitman (woman)” to search for damaging material on the Republican elected official.  After the deal sours, the leaders of the liberal political activist group refuse to pay, claim they are threatened and get more help from Democrat City officials in the Duffy administration who elicit assistance from the City Police Chief and his police force.  The City Police Chief determines the liberal political activist group leader isn’t being honest but he (nor the Democrat officials from the Duffy administration) doesn’t inform the Republican elected official until she personally calls Chief Moore to find out what is going on and what he knows about all this.  The local media has to file requests for information in order to get details about the scandal.  Everyone from the liberal political activist group and the Duffy administration who are involved all seem to get amnesia and no one remembers any details of anyone’s conversations with anyone else.  Finally, a spokesman from the Duffy administration threatens to “forcefully responded on a variety of levels” to anyone trying to link the City to this issue/scandal… which just so happened to include named individuals from the City.  Sounds like someone is VERY nervous about what else might turn up in the scandal.

The D&C Editorial Board is widely known for their calls for investigations into politically connected scandelous activities.  I wonder if anyone from the D&C Editorial Board will demand further investigation, or if they’ll just let this scandal quietly go away with no further reporting?

The fact that Enright was a member of the group threw a monkey wrench into the whole story. The New York Times buried that fact in paragraph 28 of its article after having the requisite comments about hate crimes against Muslims. It looks like it may be that Enright set out to make it seem like somebody committed the crime to appear as a hate crime. If not for the fact that he was caught this is how it would have been portrayed in the liberal main stream media. It would have been wall to wall coverage instead of buried or non existent as it is.

In the intelligence business this is what is known as a false flag operation. This being an attempt to provoke the city. In my opinion the entire ground zero mosque is an attempt to provoke the city.  Mayor Bloomberg and other liberal politicians have been demagoging this issue to no end.  Referring to those who oppose it as Un American. Who is Bloomberg to refer to anyone as Un American? What he is doing is attempting to inflame feelings and draw attention away from the facts that the ground zero mosque people have implicated themselves, trying to exploit 9/11 for whatever reasons they want to build this mosque.

The ground zero mosque project has done a 180 degree opposite of its stated goal “bringing us together”. It has done nothing but separate us. With this undeniable fact it must be concluded the true goal of the mosque is to divide us for reasons known only by its planners.

Before running for Congress two years ago, Lee helped build a successful manufacturing business and created good jobs throughout Western New York. Since coming to Congress he has traveled extensively throughout Western New York meeting with manufacturing workers and identifying ways to support job creation and economic growth.

“We cannot have a strong economy that creates jobs without a strong manufacturing sector,” Congressman Lee said. “People are tired of politicians talking about bringing manufacturing back and then doing nothing. Our domestic manufacturers are fighting on an uneven playing field with their foreign competitors, whether that be paying higher tax rates or fighting against Chinese currency manipulation. My ‘Manufacturing for Tomorrow’ 5-point jobs plan will enable U.S. manufacturers and small businesses to compete against foreign competition and create good jobs here at home.”

Western New York has lost more than 73,000 manufacturing jobs in the last decade, and more than 272,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost across the entire state since 2000, according to the Public Policy Institute of New York State.Congressman Lee discussed how current economic policies have ham-strung domestic manufacturers and small businesses. For example, while America’s corporate tax rate for manufacturers remains the second-highest in the world at nearly 40 percent, the average rate for the top 30 major industrial countries has fallen over the last decade to 23.6 percent in 2009.

“We cannot expect to create jobs here at home when we tie our own hands behind our backs. Our foreign competitors plan for economic growth over the next generation. We plan year-to-year and election-to-election. We must look over the horizon if we are to create jobs for the long-term, and the ‘Manufacturing for Tomorrow’ 5-point jobs plan is a forward thinking agenda to strengthen our long-term economic outlook,” Lee said.

Congressman Lee’s “Manufacturing for Tomorrow” agenda takes a multi-pronged approach to solving America’s jobs crisis and strengthening manufacturing in Western New York. Putting our economy back on the right track will require an innovative, thoughtful and long-term approach to make America competitive again.

Congressman Lee’s 5-point jobs plan includes (1) a more competitive tax code, (2) improved education and training in engineering fields, (3) liability reform to curb job-killing lawsuit abuse, (4) ending customs red-tape and (5) creating U.S. jobs and expanding American-made exports through free and fair trade.

“As a local manufacturer, Buffalo Tungsten is very concerned about the state of the economy,” said Ralph Showalter, President at Buffalo Tungsten, Inc. “Chris Lee is one of those very few in Congress who actually understands manufacturing and what it takes to help small businesses like Buffalo Tungsten protect and create jobs. Chris Lee’s ‘Manufacturing for Tomorrow’ agenda contains real, concrete, and forward-looking measures that will help ensure the viability of manufacturing in this country.”

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Just before the four minute mark a person comes in to protest about how racist the people who do not want the Mosque are, then continues and shows his racist side himself. Amazing! This so-called group of peace lovers are some pretty nasty people.

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