Democracy In Albany

As he said, this is a case where Spitzer's people got caught in "gotcha politics", which he also said we suspected all along.

I love your satire DIA.

But stay with Democrats' mistakes a bit longer.

Whether or not Mr. Sweeney was physically or verbally abused by his wife is likely to be ascertained at some point.  Stories of female on male domestic abuse are rare, so if true, it should be treated with the same respect as male on female abuse.  

Truly, I am enjoying a life of promoting poetry and art in the Delaware Area neighborhood.

The statement about statistics showing that female on male violence being rare is misleading. Stitistics also show that most men will not report getting beaten up by a woman.  

But who cares? Now John can go on to wife number five or six and we can all ignore the Gillibrand Cash Vac and the Democratic Congress's lower than Bush approval ratings.

I am not talking about Working Families aka wealthy people pretending to be proggressive, I mean a third party made up of average joes like you and me.

If you think the Working Families people are wealthy people pretending to be progressive I can assure you that you have never been to a WFP meeting.   You are insulting a lot of hardworking middle class people who are trying to achieve what you claim to want.  

If you don't think people can have money and agree with you than you will never achieve anything.  Another Republican myth.  25% of the people in this city live below the poverty line.   In light of this fact I consider my self wealthy.   Do you think I should stop what I do because I can afford to make my mortgage payments?  

Turley, Tuffey and Jennings have all be caught publically in their lies. I can point to third party sources and show that they were lying about important issues.   On this blog you aren't allowed to lump Soares or anyone else in with them just because you say that he told you he was going to write you a letter and didn't (or whatever it is that you claim).   So, abide by the rules if you want to be part of this community.  

We all know that those who attend the WFP meetings are not the ones calling the shots. Its the guy with the large checkbook who really runs the show.

The Working Families Party is a lot like the New York State Independence Party in the 90s. It had the structure in place to that made it look like it was an indendent party but in reality Galasano was running the show.

The local committees were taking their direction directly from Galasano's people and nothing was done without the leadership getting clearence from that nasty old bat (with a PhD) in Rochester that was Galasanos girl friend.

The WFP is the same.  Nothing happens without clearence from the top money man.

As for the revolution, its not going to be the idealistic civic minded people who prevale in the next revolt. Its going to be a Hitler style leader who will have rallied the uninformed masses following our economic collapse.

Its coming. When a society willingly cuts the threads that bind us as a people it is inevitable.  The most important of these threads is national and civic pride and a belief that we all belong to a society and that we are, despite differences in ethnicity, the same people.

Our schools aid this by not providing any basic information on who we are (or were) and why people came here.  Ask any recent high school graduate basic civics questions and you will be stunned on what you hear. And it doesnt matter what school they graduated from.

I am willing to bet that 50% of recent graduates in NYS would not be able to describe the structure of our government accurately and 90% would not be able to acurately tell you the relationship between state and federal governments.

Republics always fail and are replaced by dictatorships.  I think that historically the only one that hasnt is Icelands.  

or he can never claim the high road, like people want to claim he has.

I don't set aside complaints about Soares.  I may dismiss some I think are baseless, but that is something else entirely.  You have been using my blog to complain about him for over a year now and I have allowed it.  You may want to consider finding another place to continue these efforts.

There is no proof Soares has lied.  Turley admited to lying to cover up an illegal investigation.  The times union reported the Tuffey met with Soares about the steroid taking cop while Tuffey claimed it never happened.  He's lying.  When Mayor Jennings was asked what he was doing to the cops who got drunk and crashed their cars he said they "were no longer working".  That was a lie.

I don't have a problem with WFP. I am all for getting people involved in the democratic process.

I am, however, opposed to top-down organizations masquarading as community based organizations. To me it is a cynical as the Newt Gingritch claiming to be for family values.

The WFP is one of the reasons why I think that local level elections should be waged by local level independent parties without outside interfearence.

Bar national parties on the county and municiple level. Lets fight out the local issues without the state and national distractions.

you said the WFP takes direction from George Soros.   You have no proof other than that he has donated money to WFP candidates.   I look forward to your research showing how Soros runs the WFP.