Posted on 02/05/2004 4:24:31 AM PST by kattracks
NEW YORK, Feb. 4 -- New York City, site of the country's most horrific terrorist attack, Wednesday became the latest in a long list of cities and towns that have formally opposed the expanded investigatory powers granted to law enforcement agencies under the USA Patriot Act.The New York City Council approved a resolution condemning the law, enacted by Congress six weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, with a voice vote in its chambers a few blocks from the gaping hole at Ground Zero.
"The Patriot Act is really unpatriotic, it undermines our civil rights and civil liberties," said council member Bill Perkins (D-Manhattan), the bill's sponsor. "We never give up our rights that's what makes us Americans."
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Hey! Bill, do you support the Sullivan Law?
Why, oh why, did you vote for term limits? Elections themselves are term limits, in that if we're sick and tired of the bums, we vote them out of office! I *wish* Rudy were still mayor! :(
For all his faults, I can't imagine that Peter Vallone would have allowed that dopey anti-war resolution nor the invite to Mugabe to go through the city council when he ran things.
Did you know that the teachers' union is launching a big campaign to unseat her, because she had the nerve to highlight their wacky contracts in those hearings last year?
At least Gerson will be gone someday. Maybe you should run. :)
Nice catch Dan, I noticed that too. I forgot about it in trying to make the point that the NY Times ignored this story, but WaPo didn't.
Term limits are essentially telling us that we're too stupid to know when we no longer wish to keep someone in office.
At least Gerson will be gone someday. Maybe you should run. :)
Don't laugh -- I've thought about it, for a couple of fleeting seconds. The job pays almost $100,000/year and City Hall is a quick walk from my apartment. Then again, given the makeup of my district, I'd go down in the most humiliating defeat possible.
To tell the truth, I'm so sick of the nambypamby liberal lite RINOs that get put up against Jerry "The MOAB" Nadler that I'm sometimes tempted to run against him just to put up a real conservative. Sure, I'd get about 3% of the vote (the Upper West Side, Chelsea, Greenwich Village and SoHo are in this district), but I'd give the 5 or so other Republicans in the district something about which to be enthusiastic when they go to vote. :D
True. The only area I'd back them is for Congress with "Beltwayitis" which can really have an effect on some people.
Don't laugh -- I've thought about it, for a couple of fleeting seconds. The job pays almost $100,000/year and City Hall is a quick walk from my apartment. Then again, given the makeup of my district, I'd go down in the most humiliating defeat possible.
Do what some dems try and do in my district. Pretend to be republicans. :) If I was in NYC, I'd run as a "DINO" unless I was in Staten Island....and considering how many RINO's are in NY, sometimes I gotta wonder what the difference is. I think my last name alone would be good for 20% in some white areas.
I'm so sick of the nambypamby liberal lite RINOs that get put up against Jerry "The MOAB" Nadler that I'm sometimes tempted to run against him just to put up a real conservative.
Go for it.....for all I know he may eat his papers or forget to file. :)
Why? Are we too stupid to figure out when these congresscritters are past their expiration dates? If we are, then we deserve what we get.
Do what some dems try and do in my district. Pretend to be republicans. :) If I was in NYC, I'd run as a "DINO" unless I was in Staten Island....and considering how many RINO's are in NY, sometimes I gotta wonder what the difference is. I think my last name alone would be good for 20% in some white areas.
No can do. Besides the fact that it would go against my conscience, I'm too well known as a Republican. Hell, I'm on the Board of Governors of the NY Young Republican Club!
Anyway, there would be far too much competition in the 'rat primary. Hell, that's why Nurse Bloomberg suddenly became a Republican in 2001, because the 'rat field was overcrowded and the GOP one was almost empty.
Dale Kildee has been there since 1977. John Conyers since 1965, and Carl Lenin has been a Sinator since the year I was born. Then there's John Dingell, who has been in Congress since my dad was 5 years old. My state's very smart on curing Washingtonitis.....(rolls eyes)
No can do. Besides the fact that it would go against my conscience, I'm too well known as a Republican. Hell, I'm on the Board of Governors of the NY Young Republican Club!
LOL. It's the same reason I can't vote in the dem caucuses(It would also be considered fraud since I'm a precinct delegate)!!
I think it is because she is having her feet held to the fire by Upper East Siders who fanatical about getting a good education for their kids.
The private schools are so expensive now that you have to have serious big bucks to send your kid. I mean $22,250 for kindergarten, wow! And that's if you can get in. But I'm sure you know all this.
So, yes, she get a lot of points for going up against Randi Weingarten and the UFT which is to your kid what private carting companies were to your garbage in the '80's. As the mayor in Animal House said "If you mention extortion again, I'll have your legs broken."
You'll LOVE Scottsdale, BTW!
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