Reform Skelos Style: Don't overspend your allotment like those irresponsible Democrats. Just increase it by an obscene amount and then stay within your budget. State Senate GOP Pumps Up Its Payroll www.nydailynews.com
Skelos Translated: A fair redistricting would better ensure that the Senate reflects the will of the voters, so we oppose it. Senate GOP Majority's Dean Skelos: Ed Koch Redistricting Plan Would Unfairly Favor Democrats www.nydailynews.com
54th AD Press Cluelessness Watch (Part 72):
Yesterday:
Celeste Katz: A source close to City Councilman Erik Martin Dilan tells our Glenn Blain that Dilan will run for district leader in the 54th Assembly District in Brooklyn. That move would indicate that Dilan won't be seeking the seat vacated by Assemblyman Darryl Towns.
Gate: But, Why would it indicate that? Seven Brooklyn Assemblymembers, including Towns, also serve as District Leaders.
Katz: ““We talk about it being a possible deal for the Towns and Lopez outfits to split power…”
Gate: ..there is no doubt that this is a lively possibility, but Dilan’s move to run for leader is not conclusive proof of that fact, and may actually be proof of the opposite, since in a full out war, the Dilan faction will seek to take every position.
Today: Behold: it was proof of the opposite! Towns Emails on Plans To Stand for District Leader, Setting off Pitched Brooklyn Battle | The New Yo www.observer.com
More Proof of the Opposite: Our Tangled Web of Bk Democratic Politics www.thebrooklynpolitics.com
54th AD Press Cluelessness Watch (Part 73): L Magazine views the 54th AD through a Lincoln Restler-Centric lens and roots for Ed Towns for District Leader.
Just to put things in a real world perspective; the person L called "Lopez's preferred candidate" against Restler works for Towns.Did Lincoln Restler Steal Steve Levin's Honda Civic? | The Measure www.thelmagazine.com
54th AD Press Cluelessness Watch (Part 74): Yesterday's Gatemouth piece has been revised to add one more example of a schmuck spreading idiotic misinformation about this race:
Me. The 54th AD is Among the State's Poorest, but is Surely the Most Poorly Reported (Or Why I Will Neve www.r8ny.com
City Hall News tweeted: "Gatemouth calls our piece on Darryl Towns' Assembly seat "best thing written" on the race, and then eviscerates it http://ow.ly/45Ifu"
What I actually said was that it was the best thing written on the race that was not authored by Gatemouth or Colin Campbell. And even that is no longer true. And, even if it was, it's faint praise at best.
Proving, it is not only hard cases, but incomplete quotations, which make for bad reporting.
The Gatemouth/Colin Campbell circle jerk continues. Stop me before I shoot. NYC Legislative Vacancy for Dummies www.thebrooklynpolitics.com
Yesterday I linked Bloomberg with approval; today I agree with Barron (Gotta love that "Yours in Struggle."). Tomorrow I voluntarily check into a sanitarium. Barron to de Blasio: 'Disrespect' 'Opportunism' 'Unprincipled' 'Shame on You' | The New York Observe www.observer.com
I'll send $100 to any Brownstone Brooklyn politician willing to publicly acknowledge that former Boerum Hill Association President Sarah Lee Whitson is a repugnant bag of slime. If this woman can be in charge of the Middle East for Human Rights Watch, maybe we can put Pol Pot's niece in charge of South East Asia. Giving Qaddafi the Benefit of the Doubt – Jeffrey Goldberg – International – The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com
Yes, I'm disgusted, but this still pales before his support for the Hitler Stalin Pact. Pete Seeger joins Palestinian boycott movement www.jpost.com
Assange say "The Guardian" is part of a "Jewish Conspiracy" against him.
In related news, Mel Gibson, John Galliano and Charlie Sheen were also named by Assange as co-conspirators WikiLeaks’s Assange Complains of Jewish Smear Campaign www.nytimes.com
The ACLU defends the free speech rights of Christians, begging the question: why does the right hate them so much? The ACLU Defends The Ten Commandments In School – The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
Bottom line: whatever their flaws (and there are many), strong public sector unions at least ensure pluralism The Fight for Unions in Wisconsin www.newyorker.com
Query: Why don't they change Hoboken's name to Boho-ken?