RT News Roundup - 5/30/08 Edition
- Mayor Duffy’s been busy:
Mayor Duffy was estatic Friday about the presence of the city, county and Greater Rochester Enterprise at the Senior PGA Championship. All three got together and pitched a tent.
Duffy told me that on Friday alone, he and others in the tent at the Oak Hill Country Club talked to at least seven site selectors about bringing businesses to Rochester.
Lawrence goes on to use it as a proof point for city-county consolidation, but hell, I’d settle for a regional plan, please. One that doesn’t use COMIDA funds to shuffle business around from city to suburb to suburb.
- The D&C ed board, to their great credit, have not hopped on the bandwagon of other Traditional Media, in being shocked–shocked, I say!– about the “revelations” in former Bush spokesman Scott McClellan’s book:
What this book, titled What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception, provides is yet another window from a slightly different vantage point into a reality already well-documented. It is that the Bush presidency misled the public about Iraq and duped the press along the way.
- Good letters at the D&C: Social programs prove essential (pro affordable heathcare), Powers offers new direction for U.S. (the Iraq war is bad for the economy– duh!). Bad letters: drilling in ANWR will be awesome!!!!
- Changing Parma watches with horror as Parma’s GOP town board hires its own members and uses tax money to pay for them. What’s that called? Conflict of…something. Interest, maybe?
- Wow, another Dem smells blood in the water in NY-26 and jumps into the race. Now we got: Powers, Davis, Kryzan, and Konst. It will be very interesting to see how this primary goes. Either that, or really annoying. Stay tuned.
- My man Chris Bowers over at Open Left has some really good ideas for bringing non-partisan information about John W. McCain to the general public. You’ll be seeing some showing up here, shortly.
- Don’t forget to vote for Albany Project blogger Robert Harding to get a scholarship to the Netroots Nation conference this summer. Robert has been doing yeoman’s work over there at TAP.
- And check out this sweet vid of John McCain, in his own words.
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Great McCain video. I also recommend this one, which was noted in an article on the expanding internet gap between Dems and Republicans and specifically between Obama and McCain, from the LA TImes website…”John McCain’s YouTube Problem Just Became a Nightmare”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c