it may be the only way to get someone who is not a democrat in NY
Sorry Ed. I love you but a third party would only be successful if its leadeship was not interested in using tax dollars to support their lifestyles. In NY that political animal is as extinct as (fill in any appropriate extinct species).
Good luck to Koch with that! Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver
is as bad as it gets.
I don’t recall giving permission for this Quixotic quest! LOL.
Don’t you have to have 2 parties before you can have 3?
New York already has several parties in addition to the Democrat and Republican parties: the Conservative Party, the Working Families Party, the Independent Party, the Libertarian Party, to name a few.
What he is talking about is actually a reform of the Democratic Party. NY is Governed by down-state Democrats and the Public Sector Unions mentioned here. SEIU and CSEA are more powerful than any elected group. THey will use their muscle and money to kill any reform which hurts their interests.
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I disagree with Ed Koch on many things, but he doesn’t hate the country. Good luck with the 5th Party since the Greens and Conservatives are 3rd parties already.
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