Monthly Archives: December 2009

MYD in 2009

Well, folks. It’s been about nine months since we relaunched MYD’s online presence and www.goMYD.com was brought into the world. It’s been a great year for the organization, and we thought the best way to share our successes is with a very self-indulgent, four-minute video and photo montage.

I’m off for the next couple weeks on some much needed vacation, so things will be slow around here until the new year. A huge thanks to you, our readers and supporters,… Read More

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Senators — We’ll Be Back

From NY ME advocates:

Daily News: Liz Benjamin

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Reason To Love New York 2009 #2: Because Our Politicians Refuse to Quit

New York is the city of ego; that’s part of our excellence, the belief that we’re the best, the most indispensable, the toughest, the fighter who won’t quit even when bloodied and dizzy. Sometimes, of course, that attitude blusters into shamelessness and produces questionable results. But Governor Paterson’s Brooklyn declaration of resilience is a perfect expression of admirable New York indomitability, a quality shared by an entire crop of our current politicians: They refuse to go away,

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Stop The Bait-and-Switch on Annual Limits

NYBri on TAP:

The AP is reporting, via Jon Walker at FireDogLake, that Senator Reid has gutted one of the most important consumer protections in the HCR bill, the ban on annual limits.

The fact that this language has found its way back in the bill despite promises on the part of the Democratic leadership that protecting consumers of health care (and those who need it most BTW) was priority number one, is an especially large outrage among

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Last General Meeting Of The Year + Bring A Toy!

Join us for our final meeting of 2009 at 7PM tonight. You can learn about how to get involved in leadership positions for next year and celebrate MYD’s (insane list of) accomplishments from this past one. You made it happen — so come see what you’ve helped to build!
When: TONIGHT, Tuesday, December 15, 7pm – 8pm
Where: NY State Democratic Committee HQ
461 Park Avenue South, 10th Floor New York, NY, 10016 (

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