I am sure most, if not all, of you have now read about the very serious ethical and legal questions surrounding Congressman Tim Bishop and his shady fundraising practices.
The fact that Newsday, other local newspapers, and the leading non-partisan ethics group in Washington are all calling for an investigation into Congressman Bishop, suggesting he may have even broken the law, speaks volumes.
Congressman Bishop’s attempts to blame others for his own actions – going so far as to claim that the allegations are somehow an attack on his family – reek of desperation.
If this whole sordid tale teaches us anything, it’s that the career politicians who have made a mess of Washington simply cannot be the ones trusted to clean it up.
We need to change Congress. And we can start by changing our Congressman.
Last week, I made the 2nd stop on my 10-week tour of Long Island small businesses and stopped at Johnny’s Burgers in Centereach. In addition to getting a great burger, I also had the privilege of meeting and talking with Anthony and Gina DeLuca, who took a risk and started this business in 2010.
I am running for Congress for people like the DeLuca’s – a middle-class, Long Island family who had the courage to dream big and take a risk.
My 10-point plan, which I encourage you all to read a www.Randy2012.com/jobsplan, outlines real solutions to the problems we face. My plan will foster a climate of job creation, boost small businesses, attract new jobs to Long Island and help to transform our local economy for the future.
As the father of two children under the age 6, my wife and I are deeply concerned about what awaits them in the future. On the campaign trail, one of the chief concerns I hear from parents and grandparents is the lack of jobs for their children and grandchildren here on Long Island. I couldn’t agree with them more.
With your support, I will work with common-sense people on both sides of the aisle in Congress to clean up the mess we have now and build a brighter future for Long Island and our country.
Koch brothers and tea baggers They sure are pouring money into your campaign.I'm sure our valiant troops are thinking about protecting people like you. Honestly I think you are repugnant.
The presence of this malignant design confirms Altschuler's perfidy. While there are circumstances that exculpate a perpetrator from the consequences of his villainy, those do not apply here. Altschuler isn't insane, just a moral ignoramus like so many former corporate Republican candidates and office holders.
"As Republicans gather in Tampa to nominate Mitt Romney, Americans can expect to hear tales of how President Obama has failed to work with their party or turn the economy around. But an element of their party has pitched so far to the extreme right on issues important to women, immigrants, seniors and students that they've proven incapable of governing for the people. Look no further than the inclusion of the Akin amendment in the Republican Party platform, which bans abortion, even for rape victims. The truth is that the party has failed to demonstrate the kind of leadership or seriousness voters deserve."
The Administration spends untold billions of dollars, money drawn from the pockets of American taxpayers, in American Recovery Act money overseas, rather than using it to directly stimulate the American economy and create American jobs, and you define it as being a "necessity" (an undefined necessity, mind you) of "debatable propriety". Meanwhile, a private citizen engages in free enterprise (whether you like his methods or not) to provide an economical source of office product clerical support to American businesses, and you accuse him of "evil intent" to PURPOSELY "annihilate the livelihoods of his countrymen"... as if his goal was not economics, but treason. And btw,- your "outsourcing" whines are still playing like a one-trick-pony. It's pretty obvious that it's all you've got.
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/obama-stimulus-money-spent-overseas/story?id=10002592 It seems nearly 80% of the $2+ billion funding for Obama's stimulus wind energy program (as tempted as I am, I won't say "$2+ billion boondoggle") is being spent overseas... with a fair chunk of change going to China (of all places) for turbines. What? We can't manufacture turbines in this country? I think somebody like Pratt & Whitney might be upset to hear that. For all of Highhat's mock indignation at a few thousand clerk typist jobs going to India and Singapore, I'd have to say that sending any kind of manufacturing work to the People's Republic is far more offensive. As for the "ONE-PERCENT CLUB"... if we get 4 more years of the "Hope and Change" we've seen for the last 4, that's going to be a reference to the percentage of people in this country that actually have jobs.
Romney, Ryan and Randy: Save America, Vote Republican!
To Tessio, that made MIchael's murder OK. To Altschuler, annihilating 10,000 of his countrymen's jobs for the sake of HIS business is also OK. What can one expect a candidate with these morals to do in office?
I'd be curious to know to what benefit the jobs Obama annihilated makes that OK. I'm sure those countrymen of his who lost their livelihoods to China would be greatly mollified to hear it. ...and don't call me Shirley.
"Thou shall not meet the standards thou doth set for others yet a hypocrite thou shall not be for thou are a liberal and excused. So let it be written; so let it be done."
http://obamanomicsoutsourced.com/
"Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove "they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen." Now add this, "Many of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens."
he question of the 3% tax increase is completely valid. Forget the deficit - as Dick Cheney said "Deficits' don't matter" and then proceeded to squander a huge surplus. Without tax revenue the gov't cannot function and those who get hit are the WORKING poor and middle class. Enough of your "suffering rich people" baloney. Yours is a party that believes that when Ann Romney stays at home to take care of her kids it is a sacrifice, but when a poor, single mother does it she is a "welfare queen." And don't foreget, the average millionaire still pays at a rate lower than the average middle class family of four making $60,000.00 who DO pay Income taxes - and property taxes, and sales taxes, etc. To say that 50% do not pay ANY taxes is a complete lie and one of those right-wing tricks meant to deceive - but it won't work.
Lest you are tempted to brush this off as an anomalous quote from a then-moderate governor of the state that produced Ted Kennedy, consider Ronald Reagan's words as he accepted the Republican nomination for president in 1980. Tucked into a speech mostly devoted to pledges to trim the government, he added this: "We Republicans believe it is essential that we maintain both the forward momentum of economic growth and the strength of the safety net beneath those in society who need help." We are unlikely to hear similar words from Romney this week as he takes the podium at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., to accept his own nomination for the presidency. Not unless he is inclined to risk being hauled from the stage by the mob of ideological extremists who have captured his party. In the modern-day Republican camp -- a tribe that would have cast out Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush and even Reagan as namby-pamby liberals -- disdain for the poor is embraced as a virtue, a signifier that sentimentality will not get in the way of dismantling the social safety net."
A powerful movie and the truth about Barack Obama that has never been exposed to the public. The government does not want you to watch this movie! http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/08/22/a_powerful_movie_115175.html
I hope they aren't gay, ...his party's platform will make sure they don't! It amazes me how a member of one of the most persecuted groups in history, via the holocaust alone, can be a member of a political party, that systematically tries to take the rights away, one by one ,,such as the right to serve their county in the armed forces, marry under the auspices of the state, be protected in the death of a parent via social security. have jobs open to them because the can do the job and on and on.. from peoples, whenever they get the opportunity. This what the Nazis did in Germany , Austria, the home of Randy's alma mater and the rest of Europe they conquered "legally" and otherwise.. L'shana tova Randy,,I hope you take this time to reflect on what your party stands for, outside of economic issues.