Tag: Republican
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Suppressing the vote
Protect This Election By Andrew Gumbel This article appeared in the November 10, 2008 edition of The Nation. Not so long ago, when Karl Rove was still dreaming of a permanent Republican majority based on his “50 percent plus one” model for fighting and winning elections, 2008 was shaping up as possibly the dirtiest election…
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Republican war against voting
The GOP’s Blame-ACORN Game By Peter Dreier & John Atlas This article appeared in the November 10, 2008 edition of The Nation. An increasingly desperate Republican attack machine has recently identified the community organizing group ACORN as Public Enemy Number One. Among ACORN’s alleged crimes, perhaps the most serious is that it caused, nearly single-handedly,…
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Outdated but still funny
Welcome wagon Serrano Votes Against Wall Street Bailout – NY Times BlogShare, Yesterday at 8:31pm Four of New York State’s 29 representatives voted no on the $700 billion economic bailout package that the House of Representatives rejected on Monday in a historic vote, 228 to 205. The four no votes from New York State came…
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A Good Story
I am a regular reader of Newsweek magazine. Most of the time, I don’t like what I read in there. I find its journalism often sloppy, if not downright dishonest. The fact is, I read it through gritted teeth most of the time. For instance, I think they’re highly tilted toward John McCain in this…
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Rudy Pooh-Poohs Dem Bigs’ Digs
Sunday, October 26, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN and LISA REIN Daily News Staff Writers With a comfortable lead in the polls, Mayor Giuliani yesterday refused to engage in a war of words with Democratic challenger Ruth Messinger — even allowing harsh comments from his predecessor, former Mayor David Dinkins, to go unchallenged. Dinkins, who…
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Rudy Adds Help For Abuse Victims By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Friday, April 18, 1997 The city will make available 312 new shelter beds for victims of domestic violence in an effort to ease a chronic shortage, Mayor Giuliani said yesterday. The city also will hire 14 more workers to answer calls from battered women as part of a $7 million expansion of victim support systems…
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Rudy: McCall Playing Politics By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Sunday, March 30, 1997 Mayor Giuliani snapped off a defiant reply to state Controller Carl McCall’s complaint that the city improperly blocked two state auditors from checking on city agencies: See you in court. Stepping up a long-running political feud, Giuliani accused McCall of misusing the controller’s office by flooding city agencies with performance audits…
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Poll: Wild About Mayor, Not Rudy
February 12, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN and FRANK LOMBARDI, Daily News Staff Writers City voters soundly approve of Mayor Giuliani’s job performance and would reelect him in a walk, even though they aren’t wild about his personality, according to a new poll. The Quinnipiac College Poll showed 62% of voters approved of the first-term…