MISSISSIPPI GOVERNOR HALEY BARBOUR (in a recent edition of “Human Events”): [T]he people who led the change of parties in the South … was my generation. My generation who went to integrated schools.
Category: News and Opinion
Dan Donovan’s Dodge
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The newest absurd controversy in New York politics has to do with the question of whether District Attorneys can endorse political candidates.
The Gateway (Last One Before Atonement and Boy Do I Need It Edition)
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This is going exactly as I predicted:
Warren Cohn: Here's the latest: Team Cohn just left the board of elections finished counting the emergency ballots…I know that my opponent has already declared victory, however I currently hold the LEAD by 41 votes and counting. I want to thank all of the hard workers at the board… of elections and thank you all for your continued support and love. Please keep me in your prayers!
For those of us who know and love the man Mark Green used to call "THE RALPH," this is very sad news:
Ralph Perfetto: "Tonight I congratulated Kevin Peter Carroll on his win. I want to thank all of my supporters for your help over the years.
Cuomo will never let Paladino do a “Lazio” on him
|I want to repeat one of my comments from earlier this week, "you could bet the house on it," Team Cuomo will not repeat the mistakes of Rick Lazio.
Lazio ignored. He didn’t engage Paladino. After all, Lazio thought, the public would see Paladino as out of touch, as a loose cannon forwarding racist emails about the President, somebody who might be a good businessman, but that’s about it. Well, say what you want. The world knows who won and who was sent packing with only the conservative line in his corner.
The Ministry of Truth
|GATEMOUTH (9/1010): As to the Post, it’s the Post.
The Post divines the conservative choice where it can, and otherwise complains about Obama. The implicit message is “it doesn’t matter, they’re all the same anyway.”
Can the NY Post really believe that Gustavo Rivera and Pedro Espada are moral equivalents requiring it to not endorse? Surely, if it could bring itself to endorse super-liberal Paul Newell against Shelly Silver, it could endorse dumping Espada.
The bad & the ugly (NY Post Editorial–September 12, 2010)
New York City’s icons of ethical impropriety — Rep. Charlie Rangel and state Sen. Pedro Espada — face primary voters come Tuesday. Alas, reform is unlikely.…
Beware of Dead Dogs
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I’ve always estimated The Dead Dog vote to be 24%.
If you are an unknown who puts your name on the ballot in a head to head primary against an incumbent and does nothing, and the incumbent does nothing, you are going to get 24%
Unknown Gail Goode, who shot her wad getting on the ballot, and whose campaign after that consisted mostly of hanging literature on light poles, got 24% in the Democratic primary for United States Senate.
A Dead Dog would get 24%. Hence the name.
But the Dead Dog vote is not a floor; one can blow even that.
It was 1996 and Brooklyn Democrats were engaged in one of the meaningless wars that gets them so animated (in contrast to, say, general elections for POTUS, which they regard as days off from political activity, unless they are sending troops out of town, or, like Dov Hikind, they are busy working for the Republicans).
Reposting Medicaid 2008 Spreadsheets
|Ever since my teenagers talked me into buying a new I-Mac when the old Dell died, I’ve run into compatibility issues. Today, I had trouble downloading the spreadsheets from my prior post at work to save a copy there. So I have re-saved them in an older version of Excel, and re-attached them here. Hope it works.
Kara’s Daddy
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The doctor came in stinking of gin
And proceeded to lie on the table
He said Rocky you met your match
And Rocky said, Doc it's only a scratch
And I'll be better I'll be better doc as soon as I am able.
Now Rocky Raccoon he fell back in his room
Only to find Gideon's bible
Gideon checked out and he left it no doubt
To help with good Rocky's revival.
Anyone who reads me knows my life was saved by Rock, and I do not mean Hackshaw.
Despite all the amputation, my life was saved by Rock and Roll.
Paladino pulled it off, Espada goes down, and Rangel cruises to Victory
|At least for the Governor Race, throw out those normal general election playbooks.
With Carl Paladino shocking the republican establishment with his outsider victory and tea party push, all bets are off.
The Gateway (Drank Too Much While Liveblogging Edition)
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First news of the night. Stachowski gone. One more vote for same sex marriage provided (1) Tim Kennedy wins in November and (2) he keeps his word.
Both highly doubtful.
Espada gone. Even with the WFP in Rivera's corner, one must consider this unequivocal good news.
With Espada gone, electing Tim Kennedy is now Steve Pigeon's only hope of keeping a job; but I'm still unlikely to endorse the Republican
Monserrate conceded. Diaz prohibitedly ahead; Stavisky looking safe. Bad nite for Amigos, but it couldda been worse. Well, at least the new one who won defeated an opponent of same sex marriage.