President Obama was in Albany, NY today to tour SUNY Albany’s nanotechnology center. Officially, he was to deliver “remarks on the economy.” In actuality, he delivered another partisan, sarcastic speech slamming Republicans. So this is just one more campaign speech paid for by we the taxpayers. Speaking at the University of Albany, Obama mapped...
Michael Kicinski is an electrical engineer who has been active with an Upstate New York Tea Party group for several years. He worked to elect Rep. Richard Hanna (RINO) in 2010, but is disappointed with Hanna’s record of voting to increase the debt limit, so he decided to challenge Hanna in a primary. Kicinski’s...
The nannies in New York City are at it again. The New York Post reported that they are now mulling the idea of banning happy hour. It’s not even a drunk driving issue, that wasn’t even mentioned. It’s all about protecting people from themselves. Happy hour in the city could end if Department of...
The Syracuse Post Standard has a long story today about the fiscal situation in cities and towns across the state of New York. It’s a real mess. Many municipalities are laying off police and fire personnel. Some are raising taxes, and almost all of them are turning to Albany to bail them out. Few...
Via The Other McCain, BuzzFeed received a “dossier” created by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s communications director on the “snark” directed at the guv by YNN’s Albany reporter Liz Benjamin. It’s laughable, except that New York taxpayers were paying the staffer’s salary while he compiled his snark list. A top aide to New York...
Former Rep. Dan Maffei wants his old job back, so he’s following President Obama’s lead and attacking his Republican opponent, Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle, with lies and misinformation. He wants to scare senior citizens into thinking Buerkle wants to end Medicare. He wrote an editorial that appeared in the Syracuse Post Standard and the...
To hear New York Governor Andrew Cuomo talk, you’d think he took some big stand against the unions and stood up for the taxpayers. Unfortunately, you’d be mistaken. It seems the unions still have New York lawmakers in a stranglehold. Cuomo’s latest “crackdown” on union pensions may be considered a small step in the...
If any of you have donated money to Rep. Richard Hanna (R-NY) you may want to ask for a refund. He’s out there telling women to donate to Democrats. Seriously. A Republican congressman disenchanted with his party’s stance on women’s issues urged attendees at a rally to give money to Democrats to send a...
Yesterday my local paper had a long, front-page article about the precarious state of the city of Syracuse’s finances. Of course, the biggest budget item is public employee benefits. With benefits like these, you can see why the city is broke: After 33 years of driving a snowplow, picking up garbage and working as...
New York’s state legislators from both parties had proposed ridiculous congressional redistricting maps. Nobody liked them, except for some protected incumbents. Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle‘s district would have included one of the most liberal cities in the state, (Ithaca) even though it made very little sense geographically or demographically. Not that Nancy Pelosi minded,...
New York has the distinction of having the highest gasoline taxes in all of the United States. Yet people still wonder why people are leaving the state in droves, and we lost two congressional districts. New York state has the highest taxes on gasoline and Alaska has the lowest, according to data compiled by...
The news that a Dewitt, NY cigarette shop is being sued by the state caught my eye because the store is close to where I live. The store allows customers to roll their own smokes using a machine and avoid the high taxes on cigarettes from the manufacturers. What struck me was the statement...
Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle won her last election thanks in large part to a group of volunteers known as the “Buerkle Brigade.” This group of Central New Yorkers worked tirelessly, and their efforts paid off when Buerkle won this Democrat-leaning district by a slim margin. Tonight some of those supporters had nothing but kind...
This is interesting. Rep. Bob Turner, the Long Island Republican who won the special election after former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s seat was vacated, has announced that he intends to run against Senator Kirsten Gillibrand this fall. Had I known this, maybe I would have made plans to go the the New York Republican convention....
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