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Morse is a Democrat Hack.

So I got to see Shawn Morse on Liz Benjamin's Show last week, Capital Tonight.  Normally she is stuffy and quite frankly too smart for her guests.  So it was a treat to see another under achieving retrocrat on her show, Shawn Morse.

Now, Morse is another useless county legilsator from Albany County.  He thinks it is his turn to run for state senate and walk into office just like McCoy did.  Except this time Neil Breslin is in the way.  But just like last year, nothing from the Grand Ole Punters.  If Morse is a bud of McCoy then I bet my dog's buscuits the GOP will not run anyone.  Just a hunch.

So back to Liz, she starts talking to him and he starts his nonsense about how unfunded manadates are awfull.  He has been in the county ledge 8 years and this cadaver never said or murmured the words unfunded mandates, now he is outraged.  Told ya, hack.

He then goes on to tell Liz that he is going to the senate to help democrats and that he is running to represent democrats.  The other 70% of us could pretty much screw ourselves.

Liz didn't press him much.  Pretty unorthodox for her, she actually prides herself in giving these clowns an intellectual beatdown.  

Why is this important?  Well............ Morse decided to be outraged about the ex Senator Pedro Espada recently being found guilty on a bunch of shit.  He tried to imply that Neil Breslin was responsible for Espada's rise to power.  Well, that must have been because he was there to help out democrats, right Morse?  You know, like YOU intend to do!

But I'll keep watching Liz to keep myself informed on current events at my state capital.  Not to mention this wierd attraction I have for super smart geeky women from New Paltz.


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State Liquored Authority : Drinking and Driving is Wrong!

It is hard to piss me off.  I have developed such a high tolerance for BS that my personal threshold for anger is pretty strong.  HOWEVER, driving drunk and getting away with it is one quick way to get me going.  Well, committing any crime and getting away with it pretty much does it for me.

I received info that a deputy commossioner for the State Liquor Authority was arrested for drinking and driving in Albany a couple of weeks ago.  Now, I've been looking at https://www.nyspnews.com/ looking for his name and have not seen it.  The perp allegedly broke a .18 blood alcohol content.  The state limit is .08 so for you math geniouses who did poorly on decimals, .18 is more than double of .08.

According to their website, there are only two deputy comms based out of their Albany office,
Joshua Carr, DC for Internal Audit and Special Projects and Kerri O'Brien DC for licensing.

Now we need to know what the State Liquored Authority is going to do about it.  This agency has a long history of being a good hiding place for political hacks and appointees.

More to come when I get a name...

A Moment to Honor Blogoship - Updated

I am new to blogging.  As you can tell, I don't make much effort to do it regularly and I certain have an anti bullshit slant.  But there are others who do it religiously.

I read the TU Local Politics blog the most.  I dip into other blogs from time to time but this is the one that I come back to.  So I wanted to take time to recognize just some of the posters to this blog who keep me informed, misimformed, and entertained.


So today, We Speak Your Name!

• JCE - We Speak Your Name!
• Albany 123 - We Speak Your Name!
• The Con - We Speak Your Name!
• Corning - We Speak Your Name!
• Alberto - We Speak Your Name!
• Jim travers - We Speak Your Name!
• Elmer - We Speak Your Name! 
• Marlon Anderson Former Candidate for Mayor - We Speak Your Name!
• UKMA - We Speak Your Name! 
• Marlon Anderson - We Speak Your Name!
• Govt By the People - We Speak Your Name!
• Commons Sense - We Speak Your Name! 
• ezzykeegan - We Speak Your Name!
• 11thwarddem - We Speak Your Name! 
• lathammom - We Speak Your Name!
• Independent Jones - We Speak Your Name!
• J - We Speak Your Name! 
• Latham Guy - We Speak Your Name!
• Celeste - We Speak Your Name! 
• pt - We Speak Your Name!
• mike - We Speak Your Name! 
• dave - We Speak Your Name!
• intheknow - We Speak Your Name! 
• scarffster - We Speak Your Name!
• Carl Jr. - We Speak Your Name! 
• Tom Mullens - We Speak Your Name!
• Liberal - We Speak Your Name! 
• La Dame de Fer - We Speak Your Name!
• albanyreader - We Speak Your Name!
• gilhags - We Speak Your Name!
• Justin McFartfinger - We Speak Your Name! 
• Donald - We Speak Your Name!
• Office of Ganja Services - We Speak Your Name! 
• maverik100 - We Speak Your Name!
• The future - We Speak Your Name! 
• Albany Citizen One - We Speak Your Name!
• DeeDee - We Speak Your Name!
• New Albany Voice - We Speak Your Name! 
• Colonie Mom  - We Speak Your Name!
• The Ones I Forgot - We Speak Your Name!

How Do You Solve A Problem Like Miranda?

Monica Arias Miranda is the head of the Hispanic Coalition.  If you know me, you know what I think about groups like the Hispanic Coalition, NAACP, any union, or the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants;  special interest groups created to help democrats win based on sex or ethnicity.

So, this woman decides to run for state senate against republican Umpa-Lumpa Amedore.  Since Amedore has given money to Gerry Jennings I am now interested.

She was the first to announce.  But there are 3 others running besides her for the democratic nod, Tkaczyck (she should coach basketball at Duke), Tom Dolan from Coeymans, and Bob Prentiss (yes republican turn carpetbagger interviewed for the Albany democrat nomination).  Guess who did not get an interview?   Yeap, the hispanic chick.

I have always said that democrats are more racist than republicans.  See, dems actively keep people of color down but republicans simply don't care.   So while this is not a surprise to me, I understand how it is a surprise to everyone else.

To add insult to injury, the Albany dems gave their nod to Dolan.  Ok.  Miranda then makes a stink by refering to the process as part of the good old boys network.  Damn, she got it and she didn't even have to sell herself for a few business suits from Marshall's like some self appointed public advocate blogger we know.

I am now in love!!!

So what she's a democrat, she is taking it to the machine just like another latino brotha we know who shares his name a famous basketball player from the Miami Heat.  If this is the future of latino anti status quo politics in America, yo quiero taco hell!!!!!

Matt Clyne, the head of the Albany Machine democrats said he would reopen the interview to consider Miranda.  Of course, after he picked his boy Dolan already.

Miranda, sloppy seconds is not only bad in 70's cheap porn, but also in politics ask Vanessa Del Rio.  Don't bother.  Trust me, you have bigger plantains to fry.

Here is an oldy but goody on this Palm Sunday.

The Ghosts In the Machine

So, the vote went down!  10 legislators voted against the lawyer of the machine and 27 voted for the same shit.

I’ve been here since the early 80s.  I am used to the machine running things.  I am used to the machine being corrupt and racist as I am used to them controlling every political party.  The machine, which is all democrat, has controlled the republican party from time to time.  One shining example was the time Joe Sullivan, another protégé of Richard Stack and machine operative, took over the city GOP.

But the other operatives of the machine have eluded us all.  Who the hell is part of the machine?  Who is an active player?  At the county level, we have successfully identified 27 of these ghosts.

This vote is bittersweet for every citizen of this area.  On one hand we know who is who.  On the other, the corruption continues.  This was not a win for the right wing, nor a victory for the republicans nor a defeat for the liberals.  Marcelle has been the lawyer of corruption in the county and now we the taxpayer gets to pay him $110K to continue to be what he has always been, a defender for the machine.

Ghosts

• 27 District - Benedict, Christine (R)
• 15 District - Beston, Robert (D) 
• 39 District - Busch, Deborah (R) 
• 29 District - Carman, Lee (R) 
• 04 District - Chapman, Norma (D)
• 12 District - Clay, William (D) 
• 37 District - Clouse, Peter (R)
• 32 District - Connolly, Mary Lou (D)
• 09 District - Corcoran, Justin (D)
• 34 District - Cotrofeld, Thomas (D) 
• 24 District - Crouse, Peter (R) 
• 10 District - Domalewicz, Gary (D)
• 18 District - Ethier, Gilbert (D)
• 28 District - Feeney, Dennis (D) 
• 21 District - Hogan, Brian (R) 
• 23 District - Jacobson, Richard (D) 
• 26 District - Lockart, Patrice (R) 
• 38 District - Mackey, L. Michael (D)
• 03 District - Maffia-Tobler, Virginia (D) 
• 36 District - Mendick, Richard (C) 
• 17 District - Morse, Shawn (D)
• 08 District - Rahm, Donald (D)
• 33 District - Reilly, Herbert (D)
• 02 District - Simpson, Merton (D) 
• 31 District - Stevens, Travis (R)
• 22 District - Tunny, Peter (R) 
• 16 District - Ward, Sean (D)

Against

• 07 District - Bullock, Douglas (D)
• 30 District - Clenahan, Bryan (D)
• 11 District - Commisso, Frank (D)
• 05 District - Higgins, Christopher (D)
• 13 District - Joyce, Raymond (D)
• 06 District - Kinsch, Noelle (D)
• 01 District - Mcknight, Lucille (D)
• 19 District - Nichols, Timothy (D)
• 25 District - O'Brien, Joseph (D)
• 14 District - Steck, Phillip (D)

Absent

• 35 District - Dawson, Charles (D)
• 20 District - Mayo, David (D)

GIANTS WIN!!!!

Who else is a Brooklyn kid supposed to root for!!!  I could chill with some Jets and even Bills.  All about NY!!!!

This officially makes Tom Brady, Eli's son!!!  (in the hood in NYC it was insulting to refer to someone as your "son", its more a basketball trash talking thang).  Today they replaced the "son" with "bitch".

Another amazing game.  But the 2008 Superbowl still the best.

Brady, there is always next year.

HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!

2012 Mullegan

Took a late lunch so I can have a short afternoon at work.  Then I made the mistake of going to the TU blogs and guess what?  See for yourself:

McCoy taps former GOP counsel as Albany County attorney

Then I had to reminisce of the good old days:

GOP WINS CHALLENGE REGARDING BALLOT LINE

GOP IRKED OVER LAWYER'S INVOLVEMENT IN CASE

APPELLATE COURT RULES AGAINST JENNINGS

And then:
Deborah Busch's Campaign Finance

Too full right now to figure it out for you.  But it all makes sense.