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By David Freedlander 8/20/12 1:20pm

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Romney Blasts Student Loan Relief Plan As ‘All Sorts of Free Stuff’

At a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire today, Mitt Romney was asked about his plan to tackle the nation’s exploding student debt crisis.

In response, Gov. Romney said, essentially, that it was not the government’s job to get involved.

“It is very tempting as a politician to say, ‘ You know what, I will just give you some money. The government is just going to give you some money and pay back your loans for you,’” he said. “I am not going to tell you something that is not the truth, because you know, that is just taking money from your other pocket and giving it to the other pocket.

“I am not going to promise all sorts of free stuff that I know you are going to end up paying for,” he continued. Read More

By David Freedlander 2/14/12 3:41pm

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Joe Lhota Sorry For Calling Bill Perkins A Do-Nothing Legislator

In a story in today’s New York Times, new MTA chief Joe Lhota and Harlem State Senator Bill Perkins seemed to have a very different understanding of their relationship.

Both have a history of trying to tackle the city’s rat problem, and “In November 2000, Mr. Perkins, then a city councilman, held a so-called rat summit at Columbia University that Mr. Lhota spoke at. Mr. Perkins said that back then they spoke frequently about issues of rat removal, and he credits Mr. Lhota with helping make the rat conference happen.” Read More

By David Freedlander 12/16/11 12:38pm

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Nadler, Ackerman Slam Allen West for Comparing Democrats to Nazis

Yesterday Florida Rep. Allen West said that Nazi propaganda master Joseph Goebbels would be “very proud” of Democrats, after polls showed that Congress was deeply unpopular, but that Republicans generally scored even lower.

“If Joseph Goebbels was around, he’d be very proud of the Democrat Party because they have an incredible propaganda machine,” Mr. West said.  ”I think that you have, and let’s be honest, you know, some of the people in the media are complicit in this, in enabling them to get that type of message out.” Read More

By David Freedlander 11/09/11 9:33am

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Lancman Piles On Turner Over Iran Vote

Last month we wrote about how Democrats were attacking local GOP Congressman Bob Turner and Michael Grimm for allowing an energy company affiliated with Iran to conduct mining operations in Arizona.

Today Queens Assemblyman Rory Lancman piled on, focusing his ire on Mr. Turner

“How Congressman Turner could have voted to fatten the bottom line of a mining company in cahoots with Iran is beyond me, and doing so right before a long-awaited U.N. agency report on Iran’s secret nuclear weapons program is completely unfathomable,” Assemblyman Lancman said.  “Congress should follow our lead in New York and make it even more difficult – not less – for Iran’s energy sector to thrive.” Read More

By David Freedlander 11/02/11 4:08pm

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Rangel: ‘Does God Trust Congress?’

Yesterday the House of Representatives voted to “reaffirm” “In God We Trust” as the nation’s motto.
Today Harlem Congressman Charlie Rangel took to the floor of the House to say that Congress had in reversed.
“The real question, I would think, is, does God trust us?” Mr. Rangel said. ” Does God trust us to do the things that every religion says we should be doing? Aren’t we trusted to provide care and compassion for the vulnerable? Aren’t we trusted to know that we have a responsibility to the sick, to the aging and the disabled? That’s where God really counts no matter what your religious background is.”
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By David Freedlander 10/28/11 3:49pm

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Dems Knock Grimm and Turner On Iran Mining Vote

Democrats are slamming local Republican congressmen Bob Turner and Michael Grimm for voting to allow an Iran-affiliated mining company to purchase a stake in the largest U.S. mining company.

The bill swaps public lands in Arizona with lands owned by Resolution Copper, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto, one of the world’s largest mining companies. Rio Tinto partners with Iran on a mining operation in Nambia, even though under current sanctions American companies are forbidden from doing business with Iran. Read More

By David Freedlander 10/20/11 3:07pm

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Towns Aide On Bed-Stuy Abortion Rate: ‘It Needs To Be High’

The Brooklyn Ink, a publication from the Columbia Journalism School, published a piece yesterday that looks at the sky-high abortion rate in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, where more than half of pregnancies are terminated.

Included in the article was a quote from Edna Johnson, who serves on the local community board and who doubles as a longtime aide to Congressman Ed Towns, and who argued that more people in the neighborhood should in fact be having abortions: Read More

By David Freedlander 10/13/11 12:16pm

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Turner Blasts Obama For Hiroshima Apology

Bob Turner sent out a statement this afternoon slamming President Obama for his attempts to “apologize” to the Japanese people for the atomic bomb blasts at Hiroshima.

“If this is true, it shows in our President an alarming lack of historical understanding and an extraordinary disregard for the moral courage of former President, Harry S. Truman, who made one of the most difficult calls in history to save American lives,” Mr. Turner said in a statement. “Those two weapons ended the war and probably saved in excess of 100,000 American lives. If this report is true, President Obama indeed owes an apology, but to the citizens of this nation, especially those who experienced that terrible war. The American public needs detailed answers on this.” Read More

By David Freedlander 12:22pm

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Advocates: Bloomberg to Blame for Poverty Spike

The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union and a coalition of advocates for a city-mandated Living Wage law are placing the blame for a spike in the city’s poverty rate purely on the shoulders of Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

The new poverty data on New York City released today by the Census bureau is deeply unsettling but it should not come as a surprise. The Bloomberg administration’s economic policy has prioritized the interests of corporations and developers, and neglected the needs of most New Yorkers. Poverty has increased in so many communities and households because this administration is not investing in living wage jobs. It has given corporations and developers billions of taxpayer dollars and allowed them to create poverty-wage jobs with impunity. That needs to stop. This aristocratic agenda of protecting the rich and ignoring the most vulnerable has clearly failed countless New Yorkers across the city. Read More