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Here's a post about the New York State Primaries on Thursday, September 13. Here's the who's who guide to New York politics. To people coming here from the NYC LAN thread: Welcome! Feel free to come here to chat about politics in our beloved city and state, and leave the pizza/neighborhood/subway/etc. chat over there. To people who don't know who the hell that first group of people are: Welcome! This is a thread dedicated to politics in New York, both city and state. I'll make a post about the important cast of characters in a future post ( New York politics is also corrupt as hell. Last year, both the Republican leader of the State Senate and the Democratic leader of the Assembly were arrested, tried, and convicted of corruption thanks to the efforts of the federal attorney for the district of New York that includes Albany. Other individual members have been busted for skimming money off of nonprofit health clinics that were owned by him (first sentence of his Wiki bio says it all), slashing his girlfriend with a shard of glass (served time, is free and wants to get back into local politics), making unwanted advances towards a female staffer during a game of online Scrabble (not charged with anything but it did ruin his campaign to jump from the Assembly to City Council), assaulting a New York Post reporter (faced a possible felony charge but ended up serving no time in spite of a previous anger-related incident), and smacking her 13-year-old son with a broom because of his grades (the felony charge has been dropped; she still faces up to a year in jail for a misdemeanor charge, but she probably won't get any). New York City's politics are pretty interesting too, but Albany controls most of its affairs in spite of the current mayor wanting more money and more say over its affairs. City-wide elections are happening this year, and several City Council seats are wide open due to the incumbents being forced to step down due to term limits. Also, the mayor is being investigated for possible campaign finance-related corruption, but it's unclear whether that will derail his bid for a second term. As noted famous New Yorker Taylor Swift once sang, "Welcome to New York- it's waiting for you." And remember: https://twitter.com/desusnice/status/1078477904894410753?s=21 get that OUT of my face has issued a correction as of 02:02 on Jan 2, 2019 |
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Fun fact about New York: Everything north of NYC besides the cities is literally Alabama.
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Feb 2, 2017 06:11
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slammed that motherfuckin bookmark button
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Feb 2, 2017 06:11
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I'm here for you
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Feb 2, 2017 06:12
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What happens North of Bear Mountain stays North of Bear Mountain.
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Feb 2, 2017 06:12
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if this guy can be a state senator from New York, any goon can get elected
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Feb 2, 2017 06:15
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paul tonko is a neat congressman who represents the congressional district i'm originally from the previous representative was kirsten gillibrand, who is a poo poo also cuomo is the worst
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Feb 2, 2017 06:21
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I look forward to lurking the poo poo out of this thread.
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Feb 2, 2017 06:22
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Eagerly awaiting more lurid tales of political corruption and malfeasance in this fair city.
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Feb 2, 2017 07:54
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new yorkers suck. much like londoners. its not some unique place
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Feb 2, 2017 09:38
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GalacticAcid posted:slammed that motherfuckin bookmark button RASHIBA WALLACE posted:I look forward to lurking the poo poo out of this thread.
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Feb 2, 2017 12:16
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https://twitter.com/willmenaker/status/826869092619522048 I'm going to this. Anyone else?
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Feb 2, 2017 12:20
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Cuomo is ... *check notes* pretty bad. But possibly scared of getting his rear end primaried.
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Feb 2, 2017 13:24
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DoctorWhat posted:https://twitter.com/willmenaker/status/826869092619522048 I am as well as the three or four other people who already posted in the thread saying they're going. It's definitely going to be one of those things where I show up just to stand outside, cold, for two hours. Edit: lol sorry, thought this was LAN unbutthurtable has issued a correction as of 15:13 on Feb 2, 2017 |
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Feb 2, 2017 15:01
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Hillary for mayor For infinite laffs E: of nyc
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Feb 2, 2017 15:10
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new york is a poo poo state full of horrible people, most of them in elected office
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Feb 2, 2017 15:13
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i went there *twice* and nobody once said 'I'm walkin heah' on the street
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Feb 2, 2017 15:17
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Cuomo is bad for a whole buttload of reasons! Here is one of them! He created a program called Start-Up New York a few years back with the intent of bringing jobs back to Upstate (Cuomo has decided to be a governor for Upstate while ignoring or outright cutting funding for NYC wherever he can, which isn't the worst idea when everyone will still vote for him). If you love watching NY1 (and who doesn't?), you've probably seen the commercials, and there's the problem - $53 million has been spent on advertising to create just 408 jobs. Before we get all Keynesian about the stimulus of advertising dollars, Start-Up's central tenet has been that companies moving here will pay no taxes for a decade, losing the state even more money before the jobs are created. Cuomo's solution? Rename the project, and keep fuckin' that chicken!
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Feb 2, 2017 15:28
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Our blood thirsty mayor spares our groundhog it's life again. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/nyregion/staten-island-groundhog-mayor-bill-de-blasio-chuck.html
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Feb 2, 2017 17:33
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GalacticAcid posted:slammed that motherfuckin bookmark button same Also I'm an Albanite (Albanian? Albanyer?) so ask me anything you'd like about literally ruining lives for millions of NYC citizens
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Feb 2, 2017 17:41
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What's the story with Cuomo's constitutional amendment to protect LGBTQ people? Is that announcement just a publicity stunt or is he actually doing it?
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Feb 2, 2017 17:57
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VikingSkull posted:Fun fact about New York: Everything north of NYC besides the cities is literally Alabama. Buffalo is Birmingham
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Feb 2, 2017 18:04
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GO gently caress YOURSELF posted:What's the story with Cuomo's constitutional amendment to protect LGBTQ people? Is that announcement just a publicity stunt or is he actually doing it? you mean the one to add roe v wade?
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Feb 2, 2017 18:07
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GO gently caress YOURSELF posted:What's the story with Cuomo... just a publicity stunt? Always
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Feb 2, 2017 18:36
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Jose posted:new yorkers suck. much like londoners. its not some unique place
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Feb 2, 2017 19:10
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Jose posted:new yorkers suck. much like londoners. its not some unique place We gave the world both Trump and Clinton boyo
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Feb 2, 2017 19:16
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hello I'm a poo poo person thank you for creating a thread specific to our poo poo My family-in-law is kind of entangled in NY politics, more on a legacy basis. family get-togethers are... interesting to say the least Gunshow Poophole has issued a correction as of 19:28 on Feb 2, 2017 |
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Feb 2, 2017 19:26
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Ol Standard Retard posted:My family-in-law is kind of entangled in NY politics, more on a legacy basis. family get-togethers are... interesting to say the least
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Feb 2, 2017 19:28
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I know that state succession is unconstitutional but would it be legal for us to give Staten Island to New Jersey? Has there been any large areas moved between states in the past century? I feel like this one simple trick could help us with some of our problems.
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Feb 2, 2017 19:33
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Omnikin posted:same Myself as well! Plus, for work I deal with high levels of both State and City Government. I can tell you this, Cuomo is a rank amateur compared to DiBlasio, when it comes to ruining the lives of residents of NYC, but because it's NYC it's going to plod along no matter how horrible the leadership is. To Diblasio's credit he's brought in some pretty good help to run the various Departments, now if he could stop meddling in the day to day efforts of those Departments, that would be something.
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Feb 2, 2017 19:33
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GO gently caress YOURSELF posted:What's the story with Cuomo's constitutional amendment to protect LGBTQ people? Is that announcement just a publicity stunt or is he actually doing it? So remember after Sandy Hook when there was a moment when maybe it felt like there migth be some kind of popular movement for gun control? Remember when Andrew Cuomo went on TV and, spit flying from his mouth, raged like a lunatic about how one doesn't need 7 bullets to kill a deer? Then he put forth the SAFE act, probably one of the dumbest pieces of gun control legislation in history? Yeah, so point being, Cuomo loves to jump on bandwagons. He has neither the brains nor the grace of his father, nor so far as I can tell, any animating philosophy beyond "Andrew Cuomo". Of course it's a publicity stunt. edit: I should add, as an upstate gunhaver, the only upside of the SAFE act (for the rest of the country, at least) is that it 100% assures that Cuomo's presidential ambitions are ruined gobbagool has issued a correction as of 19:42 on Feb 2, 2017 |
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Feb 2, 2017 19:36
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Maed posted:I know that state succession is unconstitutional but would it be legal for us to give Staten Island to New Jersey? Has there been any large areas moved between states in the past century? I feel like this one simple trick could help us with some of our problems. Many of us upstate would be glad to give everything south of Orange and Putnam county to NJ. You could then outlaw guns and cars and meat and whatever else you don't like and leave the rest of us alone
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Feb 2, 2017 19:39
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get that OUT of my face posted:please tell us more and get my poo poo doxxed by you fuckers? sounds awesome! I'm not seriously worried and it's only the briefest of entanglement: one side of Grandparents generation did a lot of historic preservation work in the wake of the Moses/Jacobs Wars, one ended up as Commissioner of Parks for a while. There's a small family foundation now that promotes progressive orgs in the city. Other side was big in the nascent musical theater community in the 1930s. My father in law is working for Parks at a high level now. i don't end up with any particularly juicy gossip or inside track, I just occasionaly end up like, eating dinner at Gracie Mansion or going on tours of Rikers' Island Gunshow Poophole has issued a correction as of 19:56 on Feb 2, 2017 |
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Feb 2, 2017 19:40
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gobbagool posted:Many of us upstate would be glad to give everything south of Orange and Putnam county to NJ. You could then outlaw guns and cars and meat and whatever else you don't like and leave the rest of us alone Sorry but you'll take my antiquing and hiking in Cold Spring from my cold dead hands. Which will probably be easy with all your guns and stuff.
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Feb 2, 2017 19:42
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gobbagool posted:Many of us upstate would be glad to give everything south of Orange and Putnam county to NJ. You could then outlaw guns and cars and meat and whatever else you don't like and leave the rest of us alone Easier for Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Manhattan to secede as a new state, and let Old New York and New Jersey fight over Staten Island.
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Feb 2, 2017 19:46
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Maed posted:Sorry but you'll take my antiquing and hiking in Cold Spring from my cold dead hands. Which will probably be easy with all your guns and stuff. You're certainly welcome to keep your "country houses" here and your money will continue to be good at every overpriced 'antique' shop on rte 20
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Feb 2, 2017 19:51
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Maed posted:I know that state succession is unconstitutional but would it be legal for us to give Staten Island to New Jersey? Has there been any large areas moved between states in the past century? I feel like this one simple trick could help us with some of our problems. States trading territory is legal but it requires both states and Congress to agree on it. Staten Island once voted to become independent (as a new city still part of NYS) but were talked down by Guiliani.
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Feb 2, 2017 19:52
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So what's the deal with the breakaway faction of Dems, and why have they existed for so long. Do the rules of the Senate favor it or something?
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Feb 2, 2017 20:00
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and how the hell do I get on my community board
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gobbagool posted:Many of us upstate would be glad to give everything south of Orange and Putnam county to NJ. You could then outlaw guns and cars and meat and whatever else you don't like and leave the rest of us alone lol yeah the city is the real burden on the state
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