Posted on 04/16/2005 7:35:52 PM PDT by neverdem
If New Yorkers need another reason to get rid of all these pretend political parties cluttering the ballot, Lenora Fulani provided it last week. Dr. Fulani is in the middle of a firestorm about ugly remarks she made about Israel two decades ago and reaffirmed just last week. She said in the late 1980's that the Jews "had to sell their souls to acquire Israel" and were then forced to "function as mass murderers of people of color" to help their nation survive. She defended the comments last Wednesday on a local television station.
As outlandish as her remarks are, it is even more outlandish that this woman's control over the so-called Independence Party makes her such a big player in New York politics. The bizarre New York system allows fringe parties onto the ballot even if they support the same candidates as the two main parties. That means a lot of politicians who should know better - Senator Charles Schumer, Gov. George Pataki, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Mayor Michael Bloomberg - kowtow to groups like Dr. Fulani's so that they can have their names on the party's ballot line.
Mr. Bloomberg, who ran for mayor in 2001 as a Republican, got 60,000 votes that year as the candidate for the Independence Party. And although he calls Dr. Fulani's remarks on Israel "phenomenally offensive," he plans to ask for her party's support in this year's mayoral race.
If these party shells picked their own candidates, that would be one thing. Instead, they are like bits of political moss that survive by hanging onto the Democratic and Republican candidates.
It's time for New York's politicians to get rid of copycat parties. And while they are at it, they can stop bowing and scraping to the likes of Dr. Fulani.
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Wow, the New York Times and New York Post comments on this subject are quite similar. Guess that doesn't happen too often.
That's pretty fake. Let's start with them.
Hank said "let's start with the Republicans." I have
to agree. The support by "right to lifers" for major
Republican candidates has dismayed me for years... going
on decades.
Hillary wants her competing parties removed.
As do most Party hacks. It makes it easier to cut deals and stay in power that way. No one really wants voters to have alternatives.
As do most Party hacks. It makes it easier to cut deals and stay in power that way. No one really wants voters to have alternatives.
Come again?
Thanks for the link.
That is EXACTLY what this is about.
Hillary knows that the other parties are loose cannons that, left as they are, don't trust her.
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It's time for New York's politicians to get rid of copycat parties.
What utter nonsense!
It's the NY Times, they probably consider Republicans a copycat party.
LOL!
Nah,
They want hard left, and somewhat hard left dems, they don't even like rino's.
Bloomberg is a solid liberal, former democrat, who just wanted to skip a primary so he could run for mayor.
In the eyes of way to many idiots, who do not know better, he's actually called a conservative (I feel like I'm going to vomit, knowing that some people think that).
The politicians here are basically so far to the left, that its pathetic.
In New York, the RINOs are useful idiots.
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