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Downstate Update: Greg Ball’s Opening Volley (SD-40)
The Tea Party often pays lip service to the benefits of giving back power to local communities. But what happens when a community uses that power to do something the Tea Party doesn’t like?
Thanks to Senator Greg Ball, we now have an answer: they go nuts.
Tagged greg ball, ny senate, Tea Bag
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State Pols Furlough Workers, Then Party
The State Senate and Assembly both passed another emergency budget bill yesterday which will keep the State running while they continue to not vote on an actual budget (which was due on April 1st). However, this time the bill included a provision that, in an attempt to save money, will furlough about half of the State’s workforce for one day a week.
Of course, the legislators blame the Governor for forcing them into his horrible position, and the Gov blames… Read More
Tagged new york state, new york state legislature, ny senate, nys senate, State Senate
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Congratulations Jose Peralta!
As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, Jose Peralta beat Monserratte in a landslide!
With 94 percent of the vote counted, unofficial returns from the overwhelmingly Democratic 13th State Senate District showed Mr. Peralta with 66 percent and Mr. Monserrate with 27 percent. The Republican candidate, Robert Beltrani, an administrative law judge, came in third with 7 percent.
“Tonight we put an end to dysfunction,” Mr. Peralta told a crowd at a restaurant in East
Avella Planning Campaign Against GOP State Senator (Who Voted Against Marriage Equality)
This story has been floating around for a while, but it’s jumped from likely to extremely likely: it looks like former NYC Councilman Tony Avella is going to take on GOP State Senator Frank Padavan in Queens. From the Queens Times-Ledger:
Avella said he will probably jump into the race by the end of the month and plans to focus on the same issues he championed on the Council, such as fighting overdevelopment and ethics reform, along the campaign
Someone Else Hits the Phones!
It’s always fun to see other groups hit the phones for a legislative initiative.
While it is kind of old-fashioned, blitzing the phone lines is a tried-and-true strategy for making sure legislative staffers know that you’re out there and you care on a given subject.
But it’s not just huge civil rights issues (*cough* New Yorkers for Marriage Equality *cough*) or (in the case of The Right) guns and abortion that get the phone line treatment. Sometimes… Read More
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Monserrate Committee Report Is Out
Full report made available by the Albany Times-Union here – the committee concludes Monserrate “showed a reckless disregard for Ms. Geraldo’s well-being and for the severity of her injury,” and is, as the NYT puts it, “unfit to serve.”
“The decisions made that night by Senator Monserrate as to the treatment of someone he ostensibly loved and cared for, were not consistent with the obvious need to obtain swift medical care for an injury of the seriousness of
