In a swift turn of events, Suffolk County Democrats have chosen Jennifer Maertz, a colleague of recently disqualified State Senate candidate Regina Calcaterra, to face off against incumbent Senator Kenneth P. LaValle in November.
Ms. Maertz entered the race with Ms. Calcaterra’s backing after Ms. Calcaterra, who resides in New Suffolk, failed to convince the State Supreme Court Appellate Division to overturn a decision throwing her off the ballot for failing to meet residency requirements to run for the State Legislature.
On Friday, Ms. Maertz, 34, emphasized that she and Ms. Calcaterra are both dedicated to the same goals. She said taking the reins on Ms. Calcaterra’s campaign so far has been a “seamless transition.”
“This campaign is not about the person,” Ms. Maertz said. “It’s about what needs to be changed in... more
Ms. Maertz entered the race with Ms. Calcaterra’s backing after Ms. Calcaterra, who resides in New Suffolk, failed to convince the State Supreme Court Appellate Division to overturn a decision throwing her off the ballot for failing to meet residency requirements to run for the State Legislature.
On Friday, Ms. Maertz, 34, emphasized that she and Ms. Calcaterra are both dedicated to the same goals. She said taking the reins on Ms. Calcaterra’s campaign so far has been a “seamless transition.”
“This campaign is not about the person,” Ms. Maertz said. “It’s about what needs to be changed in... more
Nah, not here on the Twin Forks.
This is where "status quo" garners a new, almost incoherent meaning. What we have here, is fiscal wealth on 'cid.
It's really no shock that a complete unknown would be the next to challenge anyone for a seat in these parts. It's hard enough to survive, let alone garner yourself a paid education. A "rouge scholar" would not only be the best we people have ...more to offer, but most likely the best at the job in question. Life experience pays higher dividends, than any pile of books you could ever find.
Of course, reading a few piles along the way, never hurts. I highly recommend "The Comprehensive Book of Modern Psychology".
It's a real page turner, on "onion paper"...
Ever heard of "synchronous resonance"?
It's what happens when you are elected with the best of intentions, and become part of the problem...
That may be or may not but at this moment it is wishful drum-beating on your part.
I vote for Sponge Bob.
I vote for "no man"!.
DUMP LAVALLE---VOTE FOR JENNIFER!
Repeal the GLBA, excise the lobbyists, enact serious fiscal regulations, unlike the deboned, declawed finance bill that just passed, and of course, dump "fat cat" incumbents. Grant the states more allowance for self regulation, since that is how our government is supposedly designed anyway. Smaller Federal, better State government, and the fiscal responsibility that needs to go with it. That would be a healthy start.
These jokers on Wall St. create money out of the aether. And if they don't, it's awful funny how it evaporates LIKE ether on a hot city sidewalk, and crashes the entire economy.
Every time there is a tax cut (e.g., ERTA, 1981) to "prevent the sheltering of monies", of some other ridiculous reason, we run headlong into a "recession", or worse. Like after the "Roaring" 20's, Kennedy in the 60's, Reagan in the '80's, and the nail in the coffin, the de-regulation by the Clinton Administration (GLBA, 1999). The lack of regulation does not work, and it took less than ten years to prove that.
Wealth accrued for the top percentiles increases, cost of living increases, middle class salaries become static, and a "recession" ensues. It has been a repeated cycle since 1790. The "mortgage crisis" was just a result of rampant abuses of freedom, due to a lack of regulation. The lack of regulation allowed for the increase in income for the "upper crust", and allowed for the explosion in real estate costs. If some moron can afford to pay a million for a "home", some idiot will ask the price, and the effect via supply and demand snowballs.
Make ALL tax shelters illegal, create better, more well trained, well tooled "watchdog" agencies", and you may see more change for the better. Proper taxation, and proper remittance of said taxes not only builds our society, but maintains it's infrastructure. It is one's civic duty to support to society, that grants you the freedom to have the opportunity you do. However, NO ONE has the right to abuse those freedoms, and impinge those same freedoms for another.
Individual responsibility goes hand in hand with civic responsiblity.
The greater your fortune, the greater your wealth, the greater your debt to society.
Unfortuately, civic responsibility does not rule the day. Greed, avarice, self entitlement, ego, and ostentatious personal holdings do.
We seriously need to follow one very basic rule:
"Take only that which you need to survive."
All the malfeasant behaviors which have been described, and engaged in over time, are what brought down every empire in History.
If we don't change our ways, well, we shall fade into History as well...