The only thing saving the Democrats in NYS is the Republicans in NYS
NY's Schizo Voters - NYPOST.com Angry at Albany but set to back Dems
New Yorkers must be glut tons for punishment. They're unhappy with gov ernment — which is run these days by Democrats, both in Albany and Washington. Yet polls say voters here are planning to send most Dems back to power next month. Is it any wonder the state's ills are so . . . chronic? Nearly nine out of 10 New Yorkers are "angry" with state government, or at least "dissatisfied," Friday's Quinnipiac University poll reported. Seven in 10 feel likewise about Washington. Now, Democrats hold every top state office in New York. They control both houses of the Legislature. Plus, nearly all our House members and both our US senators are donkeys. Oh, and Dems also run the White House and Congress. Given their anger, shouldn't New Yorkers be champing at the bit to dump the Democrats, as other Americans are planning to do?
Election 2010 Monday Update
Paladino Attacks Gays in Brooklyn Speech (NYT) * In New York Governor Race, Two Italian Identities (NYT) * Paladino Criticizes Homosexuals(WSJ) * Lupica: Carl Paladino's anti-gay rant shows us his true colors (DN) * Andrew Cuomo, Rev. Al Sharpton engage in delicate dance with one another (DN)
* Paladino says kids shouldn't be 'brainwashed' into thinking homosexuality is OK (NYP * Paladino on 'Today' show says he doesn't discriminate against gays * Team Paladino eyes 'anti-Semite' smear (NYP) * As Republicans are grumbling about his spending (or lack thereof), Paladino is poised to re-launch his paid TV advertising for the first time since the GOP primary with a campaign that brands Cuomo an “Albany insider.” * Jim Odato parses the Cuomo-Farkas connection. * Paladino went out of his way to avoid answering reporters’ questions in Williamsburg. * Paladino’s business dealings have dogged him on the campaign trail.* Paladino Explains, On Morning Television * Paladino Stands By His Anti-Gay Remarks * The Paladino Meltdown: Not Deadly, Just A Waste of Precious Time (Thirteen) * Andrew Cuomo: Carl Paladino's Remarks On Gays Were Reckless, Divisive
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Rick Lazio: Gay Controversy An "Embarrassment" That's Distracting From Need To Address Job Growth * Jimmy Vielkind wonders if Paladino is being managed, and if so, by whom. *Political Flap Punctuates Columbus Day Parade (WCBS) * In an Alliance With a Rabbi, New Lessons for Paladino (NYT)
Before Bloomberg Runs for President Take Over the Washington Media
Bloomberg Attempting Coup of Washington's Subscription-Based News Game
Perhaps the media obsession of reelecting Bloomberg got in the way of the warning signs
On New York School Tests, Warning Signs Ignored (NYT)
Bloomberg Campaign
Bloomberg Campaign Attacks Thompson on His Record in Education (September 25, 2009, NYT)
Filtering the News
With New Tech Pols Become News Providers
News has always been filtered in New York. The media like to be close to elected officials in this city who control power. Bloombergs has gotten so used to having his press spins printed with editing that he has begun to freak out about the uncensored bloggers and Facebookers * Bloomberg says he doesn't get Facebook , Twitter * Bloomberg Tells Twitter Users to Get a Life
Frank Rich in the NYT today says the pols using the new media are cutting out the old media and even bloggers and becoming their own news providers. As the old media cuts back because of loss readership and advisers to the Internet the new social communication tech makes it easier for pols to control the news. How else can you explain how 98% of the incumbents were reelected in this past primary. Facebook Politicians Are Not Your FriendsThe Web, with its potential to hold politicians accountable, has also given partisans license to find only the “facts” that fit their prejudices. (Rich, NYT)
Another Reason the Pols are Gaining Power Over the Press and Public - Government Funded Political Machines
Daily News Discovers Government Funded Political Machines
Did the Daily News come up with these recycled stories today because that were responding to the rumors that the NYP had a big hit on Vito Lopez?
Lopez has secret army from his senior center Brooklyn boss Vito Lopez routinely uses employees from his nonprofit empire to run his political machine(DN)
The City Council Slush fund is the same thing. A government funded machine for the pols. Perhaps the Daily News should investigate why City Hall is covering up the slush fund investigation for two years.
NY's Watergate: Several Slush Fund Cover-up (True News)
What's the 'story,' Vito? Feds eye low-rise plan as Hasid favor The feds' interest comes after a state judge threatened to put the $50 million, 159-unit housing proposal on ice over questions as to whether the city's decision to build Hasidic-friendly housing was "preordained," despite the city's claim that it considered proposals for taller buildings. (NYP) * Assemblyman Vito Lopez's long reach is not nearly enough to save girl from death (DN) * Treasurer of Vito Lopez's Bushwick Senior Citizens board told, 'You don't have to do nothing' (DN)
Vito Lopez Uses Government Funds to Run His Machine (True News)
Sunday Update
Gay-bash gang left bro to die Robbed during torture (NYP) * Calls for Healing After Bronx Antigay Attacks (NYT) * She's pregnant at 15 and father is held in gay attack, where gang sodomized and tortured victims (DN) * Gang blames leaders for sadistic torture (DN) * Two Worlds Collide in a Gritty Bronx Neighborhood (NYT) * Police Search For Final Bronx Beating Suspect (WCBS) * Eight Arraigned In Anti-Gay Bronx Attacks; One Suspect Still At Large (NY1) * TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads (Hu7ff Post) * Prosecutor Won’t Appeal Barring of Witness in Terror Trial (NYT)
Election 2010
Bloomy backers are ballot slackers
Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson, Deputy Mayor Linda Gibbs, Fire Commissioner Sal Cassano and Alan Aviles, head of the municipal hospital system
St. Vincent's closing was a 'disaster,' says Bellevue chief Six months after St. Vincent's Hospital closed its doors, ERs at nearby hospitals are bursting with patients. (DN)
Happy Birthday John
John Lennon's Imagine (Video)
Lennon's New York Universe The Journal's music writer John Jurgensen takes a look at some of the lesser known landmarks from John Lennon's life as a New Yorker.(WSJ) * City Marks John Lennon's 70th Birthday (NY1) * John Lennon's 70th Celebrated in Central Park(WSJ)
Convicted Pensions
You can't Hev it! New Law could strip crook pols like Al Heveis of his 167,000 pension. In the end the courts would have to decide if Hevesi and the other convicted pols would receive their pension. The state Constitution clearly states that pension benefits for government workers are part of a "contractual relationship" that "shall not be diminished or impaired." (NYP) Get ready for court again former Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, Bronx Sen. Guy Velella, former Brooklyn Democratic leader and Assemblyman Clarence Norman and Queens Assemblymen Brian McLaughlin and Anthony Seminerio, among others.
Liu's Trip to Ireland
Critics Question Comptroller Liu's Ireland Trip City Comptroller John Liu's efforts to find city pension-fund investments in Ireland, which lately has drawn headlines for its economic woes, is raising questions about whether he's focused on investment or political returns. (WSJ)
Pay to Play Union TWU Local 100's No. 2 officer gets the boot for giving contracts to live-in lover (DN)
Terrorism In Bomb Case, Turmoil Over What Jurors Saw (NYT) * Don’t Try Terrorists, Lock Them Up (NYT Op Ed) * Bx. terror jury sees off-limits evidence; trial in peril (DN) * Conflict Over Evidence Brings Bombing Trial Deliberations To A Halt (NY1)
*** Sunday Update JetBlue JFK security scare (NYP) * Outraged, and Outrageous Pamela Geller has emerged as a lightning rod for anti-Islamic fervor through her blog, Atlas Shrugs. (NYT)
*** Monday Update No Appeal in Exclusion of Witness in Terror Trial * Feds expecting conviction in U.S. embassy bombings (DN) *The terror-trial difference (DN Ed) * Guantanamo Trial To Move Forward Without Key Witness (NY1) * Four Staten Island Teenagers Charged With a Hate Crime After Taunting Muslim Classmate - WPIX
Law and Order Gay-bash 'gang bangers' nailed (NYP) * Monster: It'll cost to kill me (NYP) * Lured Into a Trap, Then Tortured for Being Gay (NYT) * Gang goes on sick rampage, sodomizing teen with plunger and forcing another to burn lover with cigs (DN) * Stopped by cops, ex-con shoots self in head (DN) * Cop big's quota crack is caught on tape (DN) * Fox 5 newsman suspended after child molestation charges (DN) * Plea deal for Mets closer K-Rod gets the nod (DN) * A victim defamed: Judge and DA trash memory of woman killed by cop driving drunk (DN Ed) * Brooklyn DA Investigates Death Of Underweight Girl (NY1) *** Sunday Update 11 jailers busted in a month (NYP* Tot kin to sue in tree tragedy (NYP) * Boy, 8, Stabbed in Long Island Video Arcade (NYT) * EXCLUSIVE: Fox perv Charles Leaf abused kin, says sister (DN) * City FBI office gets new chief, she's a whiz of a G-woman (DN) * Deranged lunatic stabs 8-year-old with hunting knife (DN)* Dead body in burning car found in Queens (WABC) * Man Stabs 8-Year-Old With Hunting Knife in Dave and Buster's (NBC)
*** Monday Update Bronx Attacker’s Ultimatum: Be Hit With a Bat, or a Pipe * Bail Denied for Six Bronx Hate-Crime Suspects(WSJ) * Fireman Probed in Brooklyn Car Death(WSJ) * It's all just a big joke to vile Bronx torture crew as they rot in jail (DN) * Shrink-wrapped killer to plead insanity in murder (DN) * Queens man gunned down in Brooklyn (DN) * Cops took too long to nab a suspect, biz owner says (DN) * City Officials Livid Over Gang-Bang, Torture Of Gay Men - WPIX * Sources: City Firefighter Questioned In Brooklyn Hit-And-Run (NY!) * Beaten up by my own 'family' Gay bashers told victim: 'It's not personal (NYP) * Ninth Suspect In Bronx Anti-Gay Attacks To Surrender To Authorities (NY1) * Explosive Device Found in Cemetery (NYT) * Explosives Found in N.Y. Cemetery(WSJ)
Media and New Tech
Number of Competitive House Races Doubles
Around 87 House races can be seen as competitive this year, nearly twice as high as in recent years.(NYT)
Projected Republican Gains Approach 50 House Seats - NYTimes.com
Fearing the anti-incumbent wave that may or may not be sweeping the country, lawmakers are avoiding using the “r” work – “re-elect” – in ads and on campaign lit.
