[Pecos]

The sad part is that initially I thought this was straight news.

[GeronL]

The left would love to make that true, except for Republican officeholders of course

[Da Coyote]

It is becoming more and more difficult to come up with satire that isn’t almost exactly matched by some idiot uttering by a leftist.

Perhaps we should cause them to pull a “Scotland”.

It’ll be fun watching the right wing part of the country prosper whilst the progressives do their normal regression into poverty and nothingness.

[Maceman]

Executive Director Todd Valentine asserted that “the notion that everyone is free to say whatever they want about members of the government is a misunderstanding of the concept of freedom of speech. If you’re talking about or to another private citizen you can say whatever you want. But if you want to criticize the governor, mayor, or a member of the legislature or city council you need to file with us.” Those who engage in criticisms without gaining prior approval from the Board may be fined up to $1,000 per offense. If, for example, you pass out 50 flyers opposing the reelection of your current senator—you’d be liable for a potential fine of $50,000.

I so wish I lived in New York so I could put out some flyers and challenge these petty bureaucrats and their blatantly unconstitutional power grabds.

I would sue him personally, and his little Board too, for violating my guaranteed Constitutional rights, under 18 U.S. Code § 242 - Deprivation of rights under color of law.

Arrogant pr**k Executive Director Todd Valentine is the one who misunderstands the 1st Amendment, because he thinks the only issue here is Freedom of Speech.

That's because like all totalitarian leftist politicians, he is too ignorant to realize that handing out flyers is not only protected as freedom of speech, but also as freedom of the press.

Modern moronic leftist Democrats like to talk about THE PRESS as some sort of elite group whose members are allowed preferential treatment under law in to report the news.

But in fact, there is no such thing as THE PRESS in that sense. In the Constitutional sense, “the press” is a simply a technological device for publishing and disseminating information.

One cannot be a “member” of the press. One can only have access to a press.

Any device which enables one to state and publicize one’s views is a “press,” whether it be moveable type, offset printing, laser printing, TV, radio, or the Internet. We all have free access to “the press,” meaning we have the right to pay any provider who wishes to sell us access to publicize our ideas, or to buy the technology to do it ourselves.

In this regard, no CBS anchor has anymore claim to special treatment for being part of “the press” than does any blogger.

“Freedom of the press” applies equally to every citizen seeking to use a technological device to record and publicize his or her opinion.

I do hope that someone deliberately challenges this law in New York.

Tar and feathers were made for bureaucrats who impose such tyrannical laws upon the people.

[Little Ray]

Almost missed the satire. I could believe this of any number of Blue states...

[sickoflibs]

RE:”Concerned that “unelected persons might defame elected officials,” the New York Board of Elections has declared that no one may criticize a sitting officeholder without first forming a “political action committee.”

That one was too easy to spot.

[dware]

Pretty tired of this “semi-news/semi-satire” garbage. That’s all it is, really. The truth with this administration is satirical enough. We don’t need bogus articles too.