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Police can to a man's home and arrested him for writting “The Jerk,” about three inches high, on a campaign poster for James P. Molinaro, the Staten Island borough president. Edward Kerry Sullivan had also letters to a newspaper and public officials, criticizing the borough president’s plans to develop part of the Staten Island waterfront. Annoying a Politician and Ending Up in Cuffs - NYTimes.com

NYT Editorial Rejects the Ethic Bill Pasted by Legislature
Daily News Also Calls Albany Hypocrits
"Senator Liz Krueger, a Democrat from Manhattan who voted for the bill, told her colleagues, “We need to not pat ourselves on the back that much because we have further to go.”

Actually, they should not congratulate themselves at all. Gov. David Paterson was right to threaten to veto the bill, and if the Legislature sends it to him, he should do just that." Governor Paterson’s Turn on Ethics

The NYT is going after what Albany always does when it come to ethics pass weak bills full of loop holes. In 2005 the the legislature and good government groups worked together with then senate majority leader Bruno to pass an ethic bill that allowed him to steal the state blind. What the NYT editorial did not explore was why the good government groups so blindly follow what the pols want. Perhaps they should look into who funds these groups as Paterson suggested.

The NYT wants Albany to: 1) limit the use of campaign money, 2) Give the attorney general authority to enforce campaign finance laws, 3) more disclosure about the private businesses of legislators, 4) The ethics bill should create a more independent overseer for all of Albany, 5) establish public financing of campaigns, as in New York City and 6) create a nonpartisan commission on redistricting before the election this fall. In the past Albany has ignored the NYT and all the newspaper editorial as True News has reported on before The Audacity of Bruno's Corruption: Editorial Board Outrage Over the Years Leads Nowhere It is a good sign that they are going after Manhattan reformers who have become enables of Albany corruption *** Slimeball ethics: Legislators turned ethics bill into just another cynical political ploy *The Governor the Legislature and Reform (Queens Tribune

Charter Hypocrisy H is for: Hypocrisy, one thing at which anti-charter school legislators excel " By killing a charter school expansion last week, the state Legislature blew New York's shot at $700 million in federal aid and denied thousands of parents the ability to choose better schools for their kids MORE H CHARGES Hiram Monserrate fires back against fellow Democrats, Sen. Eric Schneiderman calling them hypocrites

Sunday News Update Paterson tries to smoke out 'challenger' Cuomo
The Trouble with Barack (Newsweek) *** Starting Over: Can Obama Revive His Agenda? (Time Magazine) *** How Democrats Can Win Again - David Plouffe, Washington Post *** Source says Andrew Cuomo will announce plans to run for New York Governor in March *** Andrew Cuomo, eyeing up New York governor's chair, has built up credentials, connections *** Monserrate fires back, calls fellow Dems hypocrites *** Scott Brown: The Message is People First *** Pol's sins of the 'flash' Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz's SUV was seen last week zooming through red lights *** Bernanke's Got Backers *** Obama: I am Scott Brown *** Obama Administration's Christmas Day Negligence - Washington Post Sunday Shows TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads *Fox News Sunday Panel | This Week, MTP Roundtables** xelrod, DeMint On 'This Week' .. Jarrett, McConnell On 'Meet The Press' .. Gibbs, Cornyn On Fox *** President Obama's Top Political Adviser Said 'No Regrets' After President's First Year in Office (This Week) ***WATCH: Senators Menendez and DeMint on Massachusetts (This Week) ***WATCH: Roundtable: State-of-the-Union Reboot? (This Week)

Open Source Democracy Are bloggers the new legislative watchdogs?

Is There A 18 Minute Gap Also? Patrick J. Buchanan said the AIG notes should be burned SEC Mulled National Security Status For AIG Bailout Details

Opposition to Terror Trials in New York Building
The president has reacted to the Boston Tea Party vote by attacking Wall Street, the Supreme Court ruling on giving the corporations the right to spend what they want and having hamburgers with the guys. Obama Sharpens His Populist Tone

Perhaps he should also look at what some pollsters think Brown won the campaign on. His opposition on the presidents terrorism policies. During the campaign, Brown repeatedly railed against criminal trials for terrorism suspects, took out a television ad opposing giving “rights to terrorists who want to harm us” and declared that he did not view water-boarding as torture. In his nationally televised victory speech Tuesday night, the senator-elect seized on the issue again.“I believe that our Constitution and laws exist to protect this nation - they do not grant rights and privileges to enemies in wartime,” Brown said. “In dealing with terrorists, our tax dollars should pay for weapons to stop them, not lawyers to defend them.”Brown a 'game changer on terrorism? (Politico) * Obama targets New York Obama seems intent on destroying Wall Street -- and, with it, New York. Amazingly, the state's congressional delegation appears quite happy to let him.*** Try Devil's Island instead: Terror trial doesn't belong on Governors or Manhattan *The administration reacts to the Community Board 1 vote to more the trial off Manhattan island by spinning money for Anti-terror $$ for city * As Terror Trial Security Details Emerge, Push for Governors Is. Grows * Video: Chinatown Residents Furious Over 9/11 Terror Trials * Lower Manhattan Community Board Recommends Holding Terror Trials Far Away from *** Not in My Neighborhood! Lower Manhattan Residents Fuming Over Terror Trial NBC New York

Can New York Survive the Trials and Obama War on Wall Street? NYC's unemployment higher than country, state (Queens Crap) *** Wall Street faces pain from buyout cutback *** New York Governor Paterson defends Wall Street bonuses

Stuy Town: Which Family Controls the Pension Money The pols allow the developers to change Stuy Town from a housing development to aWall Street investment. Tishman's teetering Two Powerful New York real estate families are fighting over who will own and run Stuy Town * Stuy Town creditor seeks to fire Tishman as manager * Helmsley brokerage shut How the developers mugged a housing development as told by True News Stuy Town & Peter Cooper Village Wall Street Hijacks Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for Stuy Town. The investors in Stuy Town got $1.5 billion from Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac. Now we hear that the tax payers will pay for Fannie, Freddie Losses May Hit U.S. - Wall Steet Journal ($) Now the city is in the mortgage business to bail out good investors who have lost billions in investors and pension funds? Who decides who a good investor? City entering the mortgage business