Comments on: DNC Targets Legislative Races

By: bmaz

bmaz — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:15:55 +0000

You mean Joe the Plumber isn’t the solution? Go figure.

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:32:04 +0000

Absolutely.
FWIW, how else are all those Green Technologies going to be invented…? Some of that engineering, to say nothing of chemistry and other more technical fields, really benefit from people with a lot of knowledge.

And more support for voc tech and community colleges as people retrain. Those seem to pay a lot of social and economic dividends over time.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:00:38 +0000

You will get very little, to no, flak from any here when it comes to folks that want to fund, encourage and otherwise promote excellence in public education.

By: DiMWit

DiMWit — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:53:25 +0000

I agree completely

By: emptywheel

emptywheel — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:50:20 +0000

Not going to beat you up.

What we need is a system that retains more competitiveness in it–no gerrymandering. We’re going to want Dems to have to compete to keep their jobs, otherwise they’ll get just as corrupt as the Republican party has.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:48:57 +0000

Overbaked Cookie cuts back in anger at Waxman that put her in oven.

By: looseheadprop

looseheadprop — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:34:09 +0000

Yeah, but Bruno is so badly wounded at this point….

By: looseheadprop

looseheadprop — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:32:55 +0000

One of NY’s sacrifiical lamb candidates is within striking distance of taking down a decades long GOP incumbent for a state senate seat.

So, in addition to the races we were actually TRYING to win, we may win some others.

SHWEEET!

By: Leen

Leen — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:22:43 +0000

Watching the Vets outside of the Debate on Democracy Now is a must. Chilling. The crowd shouted “let them in”. No mention of this on the MSM.

By: DiMWit

DiMWit — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:09:44 +0000

Let me provide a bit of perspective regarding the NYS Senate races. I am a union president, a registered Republican (old style from the 60’s), have lobbied NYS legislators dozens of times and work for SUNY, the public university system in NYS. I have lived through five different gov’s (four Dems and one Rebublican) and many budget crises. The one Republican gov finally got it and supported, sort of, SUNY at the end of his tenure. The only Dem gov who got it, regarding SUNY, was Spitzer but we all know what happened to him. Throughout all this, the only group that stood up for PUBLIC higher education were the Republicans in the NYS Senate. It is important to know that NYS Republicans are essentially an upstate group. And, there has always been a tension between upstate (north of the Hudson River) and downstate (NYC, its suburbs and Long Island) regarding where the emphasis ought to be. Hillary, for all her faults, did focus on upstate. My own NYS senator is as sleazy as they get but he does understand that public higher education is something that needs to be preserved. Beat me up if you wish, but blindly arguing for a ‘permanent Democratic majority’ is as stupid as the argument for a ‘permanent Republican majority.’