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Domestic Partner: Gatemouth, have you finished the speech about your dad yet? Please, please, please don’t tell me you are writing another column!
In writing a speech for my father’s 80th birthday party being held tonight in Asbury Park, I am reminded of the triumphant one I gave at his 60th which included a not only recitation from Bob Dylan’s “Forever Young,” but these stirring words:
Of course Obama is anti-Israel; his position is one held by some hateful anti-Zionists as Ehud Olmert, Ehud Barak, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin and Ariel Sharon.
Today, State Senator Marty Golden, the Bay Ridge bloviator, demonstrated both his own heartlessness, and his lack of concern for the US Constitution, by introducing a bill which would have New York State stop extending full faith and credit to fully legal out of state marriages involving couples of the same sex.
For all the reasons I previously cited, this was no surprise.
What was a surprise was the size of the margin, which probably has more to do with Towns' weaknesses than Lopez's strengths, but may have even more to do with other factors than with either of these men.
Yesterday, I saw a guy on line at "My Little Pizzeria" wearing a sandwich board announcing that the world was ending on Saturday.
I walked in and told him, "If I thought the world was ending that soon, I'd be getting lobster for lunch"
Last Friday at lunchtime, Downtown Brooklyn was swarmed by Chabadniks; when the third one in the course of fifteen minutes stopped me to ask if I was Jewish, I said "No, G-d gave me this face because he has a sense of humor."
The good news is that Ron Paul said he might consider supporting the 13th Amendment, provided the owners were duly compensated Paul says he would have opposed Civil Rights Act thehill.com
But, Paul does oppose slavery for white people (if one defines slavery as food and shelter).
Multiple sources say a resignation by indicted State Senator Carl Kruger may be imminent.
However, a source close to Kruger told me: “Carl is not going out until he is forced to by operation of law. Those options are losing a primary or general or a conviction. No truth to the rumor.”
That sounds more like the Kruger I know, but we shall see.
As readers already know, in 2008, when Hiram Monserrate was arrested, it took Marty Golden THREE DAYS to introduce a resolution asking him not to file his oath of office.
In this piece I’d like to tell the stories of two different Jewish men who served in the public life of the State of New York and what happened on the day they met.
One of the men is D’Amato/Pataki political hatchet man Jeff Wiesenfeld.
I’ve received more than a few comments on my Facebook threads and in my email complaining I’ve been too sympathetic to Wiesenfeld in his CUNY contretemps with playwright Tony Kushner.
On Wednesday night will come an event that I once saw as having the potential to be the opening gun in a new Brooklyn political war.
It may yet come to that, but I am having my doubts.
When Darryl Towns became the State’s Housing Commissioner, he resigned not only from his Assembly seat, but from the Male Democratic District Leader’s slot in his Assembly District.