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ELECTIONS:
Preserving Democracy by Informing the Voters
Preparing for 2014:
When ALL 213 Seats in NY's
Legislature are Up for Election
SCOREBOARD:
PUTTING
INCUMBENT NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATORS
ON RECORD --
1. What
is their answer to The People's lawsuit vs them
to void the judicial pay raises -- & secure judicial accountability?
-- click here for
The People's
Lawsuit vs NY's Legislative & Highest Constitutional Officers to Void the
Judicial Pay Raises -- & Secure Judicial Accountability
2. After
the November 2012 elections, will they be coming back into session to vote
themselves pay raises, either directly or by the establishment of a Special
Commission, whose recommendations will automatically become law?
-- click here for
Press Reports on Legislative Pay Raises
3.
What have they done to reform the Senate and Assembly rules, which they could readily
have done, to make the Legislature an effective governing body, not the sham
controlled by the Senate Majority Leader and Assembly Speaker?
-- click here for
Easily-Accomplished Recommended Legislative Rule Changes
4. What is their position on the convening of a NYS constitutional
convention -- & legislation to make it a "People's convention"?
-- click
here for
Building for a People's Constitutional Convention -- &
Scholarship on NYS Constitutional Issues & Governance -- Beginning with CJA's
Public Interest Lawsuit vs NYS' Highest Constitutional Officers & 3 Government
Branches
2012
ELECTIONS 2012: Making NY's Legislative
Elections Competitive --
Outreach to Reformers,
Insurgent Candidates & Political Parties
ALL
NYS Legislators Are Up for Re-Election!
Outreach to Reformers, Insurgent Candidates &
Political Parties
* * *
THE CANDIDATES' RECORDS IN OFFICE
2008
Senator Saxby Chambliss
Senator -- & Would-Be President
(& Now President) -- Barack Obama
Senator -- & Would-Be President -- John McCain
(also Senator -- & Would-Be President -- Hillary Rodham Clinton)
2006
Eliot Spitzer -- Democratic Candidate for Governor of NY
Hillary Rodham Clinton -- Re-Election to U.S. Senate from NY
and yes,
David Paterson -- Democratic Candidate for Lieutenant Governor of NY
& Now Accidental NY Governor
direct link:
Paper
Trail of
Senator Paterson's Corruption in Office
THE
PRESS COVER-UP OF "THE BIGGEST LESSON OF ALL"
in the Spitzer Fiasco -- The Media's Role as "his Enabler"
"The fall of New York
Gov. Eliot Spitzer holds many lessons...
but don't expect the
press corps to delve into the biggest lesson of all --
its own role as
his enabler."
("Spitzer's
Media Enablers",
Wall Street Journal op-ed,
Kimberly A. Strassel, March 12, 2008)
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