In Case you missed it…
Welcome to the Accountability? Look elsewhere edition of In case you missed it. Let’s have a look shall we?
As long as it is not My social Security Number…
Surprise! - Social Security Numbers are on the very Public Monroe County Clerk’s website. Well, it really isn’t all that surprising considering Cheryl Dinolfo was told about it in 2007. Is the Clerk adding value? In the end the loss of privacy is the price you pay for doing business at County Clerk’s office. Personal Responsibility isn’t a strength of the County Clerk’s office either.
Local coverage is generally OK except for this bit. The D&C editorial board seems to pull up short it its coverage. No surprise there.
Expanded oil drilling. When 60 million acres is simply not enough.
Ladkiddo discusses the Cons of oil drilling - Airbare follows up on National GOP tactics. Randy Kuhl spouts more nonsense - this time touting that the United States is becoming extinct as a nation. Exile has a great round-up of drilling implications with regards the NY-29.
Funny, the GOP mantra is all about ownership so when Obama suggested that people Inflate their tires because of data like this, the National GOP jumped all over him. I suppose the ownership they are talking about is being owned by the Big oil.
Media Coverage
The D&C gets called out looking for a Paterson gotcha moment in all the wrong places. Meanwhile it is having difficult sorting through the mess that was the document dump from DA Soares on troopergate. Sorry - no sympathy here - no one ever said investigation was easy.
Congressional Races
Massa releases his first district-wide TV ad. So called Freedom Watch (a GOP 527 group) responds - and the DCCC responds back
Slaughter responds when the DoD doesn’t allow the head of Director of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office to testify in front of Congress. I didn’t realize DoD had an option not to testify. Something isn’t correct here.
The Davis campaign continues to show its ugly side. This time with Petitions. exile follows up with a post about how the Independence party actually works.
We ask who needs actual data to change Congressional race ratings?
Federal
Schumer suggests to Obama to hit McCain back harder. We discuss the Surge. Did it work?
State
Dean Skelos begs for money. The State Senate passes a property Tax Cap and Senator Joe Robach gets blasted. Just in time for International Breast Feeding Week a reminder of how progressive New York State really is.
Local -
Monroe County misses out on Sales Tax revenue. The DayCare option for many taken away courtesy GOP Budget policies. The GOP raises taxes but not really because they call taxes “fees”.
Mayor Duffy’s on again, off again love affair with RenSquare looks to off again.
It was a bad week for Dave Barry who resigns as Monroe County Legislature Clerk and John Lightfoot who was sentenced for DWI. But it was a good week for MCC Trusteee John Parranello who scored MCC tickets - $9000 worth of tickets.
Brighton gets free wireless from the people who fumbled an Internet download cap roll out. 1280 WHTK reacts to 950 WROC s upcoming format change which converts the station from a progressive talk format to another sports radio.
stlo7 is still looking for a hero
Doesn’t RT have any comments on the John Edwards mess? If we aren’t the first to condemn our own, then we fail to attain the higher standards we supposedly all strive for.
It’s a personal issue, not a political one. We’re trying to discuss our government and issues that affect the world in which we live. If you want discussion of politicians’ personal lives, you might want to try a different blog.
How is running for office knowing you’re not a viable candidate a personal issue. This issue involves campaign volunteers and contributors who were duped by Edwards.
I agree that an affair is a personal issue and shouldn’t be an issue in a campaign, but lets be real. We know that this type of news is just the thing to bring down a campaign. Edwards, his wife and his close aides all thought it was ok for Edwards to run for president.
If you treat this sort of thing like a court of law, when Edwards mentioned his wife’s cancer, he opened the door to the fact that personal issues mattered in his campaign. He used his wife’s cancer to portray himself as the steadfast family man who is by his wife’s side “in sickness and in health”. But that was all an illusion that Edwards publicly displayed.
Though in all honesty, it’s good to know I’ll never see anything about a certain local personal scandal on RT
Like how you got your user name?
I don’t get it.