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CaptainPsyko posted:He was Chuck Schumer's #2 in the senate for several years. He knows from legislation. This is what I'm getting from the wiki: quote:Bharara served as the chief counsel to Senator Chuck Schumer and played a leading role in the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary investigation into the firings of United States attorneys. That sounds way more lawyery and muckraky than legislaty. Bolded the ironic part.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:This is what I'm getting from the wiki: That was one thing he did.
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CaptainPsyko posted:That was one thing he did. Is there a better biography of his time in the Senate?
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anyone heard anything about where the New York State Liberty Act is with the State Senate? Make the Road NY has a site for social media action, but guessing calling would be better? - https://twitter.com/MaketheRoadNY/status/839929113150386181
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Senator Buzzfeed Alcantara strikes againquote:The debate over the Independent Democratic Conference’s budget resolution in the Senate on Wednesday took a heated turn when IDC Sen. Marisol Alcantara accused Deputy Minority Leader Mike Gianaris of “white privilege.”
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No charges for deblasio. Mayoral race gonna be boring now.
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CaptainPsyko posted:No charges for deblasio. Mayoral race gonna be boring now. IDK, there's still a non-zero chance of Hillary running.
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Mar 16, 2017 16:06
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Can anyone summarize the DiBlasio thing for me? Is it just a big nothingburger?
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MizPiz posted:IDK, there's still a non-zero chance of Hillary running. also, what's with the term "nothingburger?" been seeing that a bunch over the past couple days
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Mar 16, 2017 19:18
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The destruction of all strawmen has become something to see.
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Mar 16, 2017 19:39
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get that OUT of my face posted:does she have residency in NYC? if not, no chance of that happening "Nothingburger" was a term Mook et al used to describe hillary's email scandal, usu shouted when plugging his ears
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Mechafunkzilla posted:Can anyone summarize the DiBlasio thing for me? Is it just a big nothingburger? In 2014, BDB did a lot of fundraising for various upstate democrats - especially those running for senate. In addition, he has been linked at various times to a variety of donors who have relationships with the city and who have been investigated or even charged in various other unrelated shady campaign finance nonsense finally, during his first run for mayor, there was an outside PAC (the Campaign for One New York) that he was occasionally accused of working too closely with. He was investigated as a result of these activities, based largely on a referral from a member of the state board of elections (a Cuomo appointee, natch). In particular, the fundraising for upstate Dems was seen as problematic because donors he solicited were giving money to local democratic committees which was in turn routed to campaign funds - this has been SOP in both parties in NY for years and nobody has ever been sanctioned or prosecuted for it, but it's also always been questionably legal, and Bharara's office in particular has taken a fairly expansive reading of campaign finance laws (see Silver, Sheldon and Skelos, Dean and Adam). It wasn't out of the question that he might want to use BDB to establish another new precedent w/r/t this practice. (There was also speculation that deblasio himself might not be charged but the aide responsible for following up his fundraising calls to say "thanks for agreeing to contribute. Please make out the check to Monroe County Democrats Housekeeping Fund" might be. No indication of that though.) Today's announcement basically boils down to: "he dotted his i's crossed his t's, and consulted a lawyer every step of the way who told him how to 'follow the law' so there's nothing chargeable here. But the campaign finance laws suck and this should probably be illegal." Which... has kind of been the deblasio position all along with a corollary of "until the law is changed, we're not going to disadvantage ourselves over it." So, yeah, nothingburger.
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theflyingexecutive posted:"Nothingburger" was a term Mook et al used to describe hillary's email scandal, usu shouted when plugging his ears I mean he wasn't wrong. But we're post-facts in national politics. Locally I have a bit more hope.
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CaptainPsyko posted:In 2014, BDB did a lot of fundraising for various upstate democrats - especially those running for senate. In addition, he has been linked at various times to a variety of donors who have relationships with the city and who have been investigated or even charged in various other unrelated shady campaign finance nonsense finally, during his first run for mayor, there was an outside PAC (the Campaign for One New York) that he was occasionally accused of working too closely with. Thanks for this.
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CaptainPsyko posted:I mean he wasn't wrong. But we're post-facts in national politics. Locally I have a bit more hope. There's a difference between "what it should be" and "what it is" though and the campaign pretended the emails weren't perceived as a big deal
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get that OUT of my face posted:also, what's with the term "nothingburger?" been seeing that a bunch over the past couple days theflyingexecutive posted:"Nothingburger" was a term Mook et al used to describe hillary's email scandal, usu shouted when plugging his ears
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i like nice words
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I use "nothingburger" as a way to mock the type of dem who thought emails and possibly being indicted didn't matter but russia does.
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uh not goodquote:Within the Justice Department, some are questioning whether a recent phone call from Trump to Bharara may have contributed to the decision to remove the Obama holdovers, according to a person familiar with the matter. On Thursday, a White House aide called and left a message for Bharara, saying the president wanted to speak with him, though the prospective topic of discussion was unclear. Bharara consulted his staff and determined that it would probably be a violation of Justice Department protocols for him to speak directly to the president, this person said. That protocol exists in order to prevent political interference—or the appearance of political interference — with Justice Department work. https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...m=.e08e16917f20
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christ, it took george w bush five years to have this scandal and this has happened in two loving months
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Trump is moving fast and breaking things.
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Mar 18, 2017 01:34
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never trust Walter Mosley. i wonder who bribed him to change his mind on the armory
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Figures Cuomo would be trying to get involved. Ugh. BTW, the fight against this deal is the Brooklyn DSA housing committee's big project right now. We've been organizing some canvasing in the neighborhood to educate residents about the deal, we had a rally at the site a couple of weeks ago with some other local groups (NY Communities for Change, Crown Heights Tenant's Union, one of the construction union locals) and have had people showing up to various hearings and meetings to either speak or picket. Right now the push is simply to kill the deal and start the process over in a way that actually gives the community input, instead of just opening with a proposal from private developers, but long-term there are some groups who want to push for the site to be placed in some kind of community land trust.
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Hulk Krogan posted:Right now the push is simply to kill the deal and start the process over in a way that actually gives the community input, instead of just opening with a proposal from private developers, but long-term there are some groups who want to push for the site to be placed in some kind of community land trust.
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Two stories taking Cuomo to task for his inability to help improve Upstate. https://twitter.com/NYHammond/status/845981420883464192
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Two stories taking Cuomo to task for his inability to help improve Upstate. Probably also driven by people not wanting to live in such lovely cities as Rochester and Buffalo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2uN28EJRlA
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Two stories taking Cuomo to task for his inability to help improve Upstate. Turns out saying "we won't tax you if you go here" isn't and has never been a good strategy. Actual Investments in Actual Things, instead of bribes, would be amazing. Buffalo IS growing instead of shrinking and we are seeing re-urbanization and stuff's coming along, but I'm not surprised that trying to grease palms isn't getting very far.
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Grondoth posted:Turns out saying "we won't tax you if you go here" isn't and has never been a good strategy. Actual Investments in Actual Things, instead of bribes, would be amazing. Buffalo IS growing instead of shrinking and we are seeing re-urbanization and stuff's coming along, but I'm not surprised that trying to grease palms isn't getting very far. Plus it helps to have local resources like a good uni since Pittsburgh has CMU.
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etalian posted:Plus it helps to have local resources like a good uni since Pittsburgh has CMU. UB is a p. serious campus in research and medicine. But that doesn't help everyone.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:upstate new york is somewhat comparable to mississippi in some capacity  because it's true
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Apparently Cuomo supports restricting prison visits in Maximum Security prisons to 3 days a week instead of the current 7. Here's a petition urging him to reverse that. If anyone has further ideas on how to combat this measure please let me know, I'll be happy to take further action.
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etalian posted:Probably also driven by people not wanting to live in such lovely cities as Rochester and Buffalo. Tweezer Reprise posted:
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get that OUT of my face posted:buffalo has a large immigrant population, further proving that immigrants will do things native-born americans won't do I lolled how for very bad flyover red states most of the doctor and medical staff are immigrants.
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Mar 27, 2017 23:31
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gently caress all yall
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get that OUT of my face posted:probably more racist too, it leads google searches for the n-word that is an outstandingly poor metric for "racism per capita"
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GalacticAcid posted:Apparently Cuomo supports restricting prison visits in Maximum Security prisons to 3 days a week instead of the current 7. Here's a petition urging him to reverse that. I'm sorry friend but change.org petitions are more or less worthless and are solely used for virtue signalling via Facebook shares Also good luck getting Cuomo to change his mind on that because he probably wants to appear "tough on crime" for his planned 2020 run
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goose willis posted:Also good luck getting Cuomo to change his mind You could have stopped there.
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Cuomo comes from the same sort of family background like Romney in which the surname's patriarch has decided that his sons must aspire to increasingly high political office and constantly grasp towards the presidency
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goose willis posted:Cuomo comes from the same sort of family background like Romney in which the surname's patriarch has decided that his sons must aspire to increasingly high political office and constantly grasp towards the presidency He's an obstinate and vindictive son of a bitch. I half think he looks at Trump and sees a bit of himself, and how he won't fare well nationally.
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goose willis posted:Cuomo comes from the same sort of family background like Romney in which the surname's patriarch has decided that his sons must aspire to increasingly high political office and constantly grasp towards the presidency the thing is mario cuomo was good and if andrew cuomo just aspired to be his father that'd be cool
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