Dinner in Westchester with Mike Long
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- May
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State Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long is scheduled to be the guest speaker at the Westchester Conservative Committee’s annual dinner Thursday night.
The $300-per-ticket fundraiser begins at 6 p.m. at BOE Restaurant, 324 Central Park Ave, in White Plains.
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I will only go if Jimmy Maxwell is going to be present.
is mike long supporting john mccain?
If not, he’ll be called Mike Short after the castration.
Long has been the singular reason that the new york state
republican party is bankrupt…only five states allow
people like long to be able to cross endorse a major
party candidate thus giving them a veto over state wide
choices for elective office..until the practice stops
the republican party will be the dog but the tail will
be wagging it
Yeah, it is Long’s fault that Pataki did a poor job his last term in office and it is Long’s fault that Jeanine Pirro’s husband cheated on her and on his taxes. It has nothing to do with the “Consultant” and his crony-capitalist allies who care more about pork than good government and are just as corrupt as the Democrats. And, the relatively decent politicians such as Bloomberg that the Consultant supports are basically Democrats. Bloomberg, is on the short list for Democratic VP’s yet to the Consultant he is exactly the kind of “centrist” that we need. In the Consultant’s warped mind he is not at fault for the fact that he has been the quoted spokesman for the Westchester GOP and the face of the party in Westchester (despite his claims to the contrary, that is why reporters call him) yet he deserves none of the blame for the party’s demise. And then when he helps to get people like DiFiore and Spano elected and then they turn around and abandon the party, instead of blaming them or himself, he gets angry that other people have the “termerity” to get angry about the party-switching. What nerve to think that you actually vote for a Republican that person should be up front with their party affiliation and not switch midway through their term. But again, that is all the conservative party’s fault. They are also at fault for the collapse of the Illinois GOP, who was governed by years by fairly liberal Republicans and likewise by the Ohio GOP. The Consultant cannot point to a single statewide race that Republicans would have won without the Conservative Party meddling so he is left with ad hominem attacks and repeating unsupported assertions. I am not even a huge fan of Mike Long but at least he is not the Consultant. As for being the Consultant, when was the last time you consulted on a race? Perhaps, ambulance chaser would be a more fitting title.
When your arguments fail attacking the person is always
a great fallback position…you miss the entire point
of critique..Mike Long and his conservative party are
allowed to cross endorse candidates in new york.I wonder
why Ny is one of only five states to allow the practice..
and the reason is because no minor party should have that
much power over a major party candidate. “crony capitalist
allies” sounds like a term that a communist or socialist
would use…not a true republican..capitalism is the
basis for the US economic system..does that bother you
Bloomberg is now an independent..so is di fiore…
I can’t blame them because the republican party has
marched to the tune of the right wing..maybe thats
why the last regsitration figures in new york show
democrats getting 240,000 new voters and republicans
getting 4100..maybe thats why John McCain is stepping
out of the shadow of the current failed president..
you see there is a real difference between conservative
dogma and traditional republican beliefs…but you
probably wouldn’t understand the differences because
all you seem to be interested in in attacking “the consultant”..I am never by the way called for my
opinion as the “party spokesman” I am called for my
opinion as a republican…maybe if the party hadn’t
rushed to kiss mr. long’s ring..they wouldn’t be in
the shape they are in now….maybe if we got rid
of the cross enodorsement policies that have led
to total bankruptcy in the party we might be able
to rebuild the party so it could win…but this
all started years ago when the conservative
party was not interested in social issues..thats
why they had no problem endorsing me for congress.
they then became the equivalent of the evangelical
right and abortion became their litmus test for
office ….what a disaster
The Consultant is so right, and yet so right. Republicans shouldn’t be out there begging for the Conservative party’s endorsement, or the Independence line for that matter, this much is true.
But the reason is not because of the “right wing”. New York’s Moderate and Liberal Rockefeller Republicans would not get anyone elected without the support of their Conservative Republican allies, and visa versa.
ALL Republicans, regardless of whether they’re a social liberal and economic conservative or social conservative and economic neoliberal, are being hosed by these third parties, which stand for NOTHING. NO-THING.
Example: Over and over, the Conservative party endorsed Willis Stephens. The most liberal member of the Assembly. So did the Independence party. Why? Because he’d cut them a check come election day, or put some staffers on the payroll. Not because of a position on issues, or conservative values, or something else (I have no idea what the Independence party actually stands for, if anything).
If the Conservative party actually stood for Conservative values, I’d be in favor of the electoral fusion system. But when they influence the Republican Party to drive ACTUAL CONSERVATIVE like Michael Benjamin out in favor of ultra-liberals like Howard Mills, or ACTUAL CONSERVATIVES like Ed Cox (who is now getting very high up in the State GOP) out in favor of RINOs like Jeannine Pirro, its time for the minor party system to go!
**“The consultant is right, and yet so wrong”, is what the 1st sentence should read
freudian slip no doubt..at least we an agree.that
the leverage obtained by botht the conservative party
and the independence party have damaged the republican
party regardless of which way you lien ideologically
it also opens the door to extortion…republicans
ought to be able to choose their own candidates in
thier own way for their own reasons
“maybe if we got rid
of the cross enodorsement policies that have led
to total bankruptcy in the party we might be able
to rebuild the party so it could win.”Name one Republican candidate who would have won if they hadn’t been pushed out by the conservative party. You can’t!!!! This is a false issue created by the Consultant to distract from his and his friends failings in the Westchester GOP, which incidentally started to go downhill under the leadership of the Spano family, close allies of the Consultant.
Name one candidate you have consulted for who has won statewide. You can’t!!! Name one candidate who has won countywide that you have assisted who is still a member of the GOP. You can’t!!! All your successes have ended with party-switchers.
Your position that DiFiore and Bloomberg switched parties because of the conservative trend of the NY GOP has already been debunked on this blog but keep repeating it. If you say 100 times maybe it will become true. Than again, reason has never been your strong suit. Instead of responding to others arguments, you engage in ad hominem attacks and recycle your same garbage arguments.
I don’t care about the conservative party, I care about the GOP. You don’t. You care about your friends like DiFiore and getting your own name in the paper. Regardless of how it affects the party.
BTW, please disclose that your law firm stands to make a bundle from any WTC settlement the next time you talk about first responders calling a settlement from the terrorist attacks. You are not an impartial observer in the controversy and shouldn’t claim to be.
“But when they influence the Republican Party to drive ACTUAL CONSERVATIVE like Michael Benjamin out in favor of ultra-liberals like Howard Mills, or ACTUAL CONSERVATIVES like Ed Cox (who is now getting very high up in the State GOP) out in favor of RINOs like Jeannine Pirro, its time for the minor party system to go!”
Re, please check your facts. Howard Mills, was not supported by the Conservative Party and Michael Benjamin would not have done any better. Ed Cox, was pushed out by the party establishment including the Consultant, who felt that Jeanine Pirro was the more electable candidate. Which was probably accurate. Pirro, in turn was pushed into the AG’s race by her inability to get the Conservative Party endorsement. Which, I personally would have held against the Conservative Party if Pirro had demonstrated that should could have competed with Clinton. Unfortunately, she was not even good enough to be competitive with Cuomo, a non-practicing attorney who was completely unqualified to be Attorney General.
The Conservative Party may be a problem but it has nothing to do with Republican Party losses in New York and is being used as an excuse by the Republican party, which has been damaged by people such as the Consultant. It is what is called a red herring.
Also, if the Consultant claims the DA position is completely apolotical or at least should be, why does he list in his official bio as a former political advisor to the Westchester DA?
“he was appointed an Assistant District Attorney of Westchester, where he rapidly became the chief administrative aid and political advisor to former Westchester County DA Carl Vergari”
that shows your complete ignorance..the da is non political
except in the year he or she runs for office. Obviously in
that year he or she has to run a campaign..but note the
restrictions on the office..the DA may not endorse other
candidates, may not appear at others campaign functions except in the year he or she is running etc…but just
because a DA runs for office does not mean that the office
is conducted in a partisan manner…and for all those reading these entries..the mere fact that you sign in
as anti anything is an indication of where your head
is….what don’t you tell us who you are and why you
don’t identify yourself..and as for Carl Vergari he
was universally considered a great DA, one of the finest
in the nation…I am proud to have been associated
with him for all those years..who have you been associated
with richard or are you not that proud of those people
Also anti..since you are so good a researching my web
site..why don’t you tell us all the following
in what capacity have you served as a Republican
office holder..have you ever run for office if so
did you win or lose…and under whose tuteledge would
you list if you had your own website..
of course my website is for media contacts all
over the nation..and guess what I get calls all the time
who calls you for your opinion?
Way to avoid answer questions. I am sure you get calls from all over. You have been very good at promoting your own agenda at the expense of the Westchester GOP. You are the media’s go-to Republican. They like you the same way they like Chuck Hagel since you are always more than happy to criticize Republicans. That is the reason you haven’t switched parties. If you were a Democrat, no one would call you. You would just be another middle of the road Democrat towing the party line but as a Republican who consistently criticizes leadership, it makes for good quote. As for people calling you, don’t overstate your importance. You have media contacts. Outside of Westchester, no one in GOP circles knows who you are. Despite your claim of friendship with the President, I doubt you have ever been invited to the White House. You didn’t even know who Grover Norquist was. Anyone, who follows national politics knows that. I would be interested in hearing how you switched from Goldwater to Rockefeller in less than four years. That would be like going from supporting Brownback to supporting Chafee. It seems even back then you were a complete opportunist who stood for very little.
I would suggest that anyone who reads this blog do a google search and see how many times the Consultant switches his predictions (Hillary is the nominee, Rudy is the nominee, etc.), how many times he completely goes off on a tangent about the Conservative Party, and how many times he defends the Pirros, Spanos, and DiFiore, and goes after anyone who attacks them. It would be interesting to see how many original predictions of the Consultant turned out to be true. It would also be interesting to see how many times the Consultant fully disclosed that he was an interested party, on issues like the WTO first responders.
decaf people ….
The Consultant has always stated his lawfirm is involved in the WTC lawsuits .
He has consistently called for the elimination of cross-endorsements … as did his Democratic counterpart.
I know the Consultant cannot be blamed for the DOGS that the Republicans ran at the behest of Mike Long and the Conservative party (Faso – Spencer – Pirro). He was considered – a successor in the Republican party – only getting bumped out of contention mainly because of the Jeris Yonkers group. A Yonkers group that cut the Consultant out of the Judicial races that he was winning. The consultant was the consultant the last year a Republican won any judicial race. Once Jeris and the crew got involved they lost EVERY race.
The Republicans are in a disarray and it certainly is NOT the Consultants fault. There is no real farm team of candidates for Republicans in Westchester. Astorino – nope, no real DA candidate, no real County Clerk candidate. Oh yeah, over 100,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans in Weestchester.
That’s the consultant’s fault too.
“The Consultant has always stated his lawfirm is involved in the WTC lawsuits.”
Where does he state it? Show me a link.
“The Republicans are in a disarray and it certainly is NOT the Consultants fault.”
Yes, it is. Two people who the Consultant actively supported have switched parties. He has played a major role in the Westchester GOP over the past few decades, to say he deserves praise for successes like judges, and is not responsible for defeat is absurd.
“Oh yeah, over 100,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans in Weestchester.”
Last time I checked voter registration was in part the fault of the Westchester GOP. A good board makes an active effort to increase registration. Under Spano and the Consultant, the GOP did very little.
“He has consistently called for the elimination of cross-endorsements … as did his Democratic counterpart.”
That is about all he has been consistent on. Moreover, both major parties are always going to want to eliminate minor parties. No suprise there. His predictions are similar to Dick Morris’s. He recycles the mainstream viewpoint of who is going to win, which almost inevitably wrong. He predicted only Giuliani could be Clinton and neither of them will be their respective party nominees. In general, he does not have a good grasp of what is going to happen and he consistently contradicts himself. I am not the first person to point that out and I won’t be the last.
“I know the Consultant cannot be blamed for the DOGS that the Republicans ran at the behest of Mike Long and the Conservative party (Faso – Spencer – Pirro).”
No one did more to promote Pirro’s candidacy than the Consultant. And, yes the Consultant is at least as much to blame as anyone else for promoting the Spano brothers. The Conservative Party is less to blame than the Consultant for the demise of the Westchester GOP.
I don’t have a problem with the Consultant criticizing the Conservative Party. I do have a problem with him trying to kick people out of the GOP based on his litmus test and trying to blame the Conservative Party for the GOP’s demise. He cannot cite one example where the Conservative Party blocked an electable candidate from winning a statewide race.
what the hell does what my lawfirm do have to do with
my role as a political commentator…in fact i may be
the only plaintiffs attorney who favors tort reform
but i digress..you didn’t answer all the questions
I posed to you about who you are and whether you have
ever served in any republican capacity …I am
not trying to kick legitimate republicans who are
more conservative than i out of the party…you completlely
misunderstand me..I believe that republicans of whatever
stripe should fight it out without interference from the
minor parties..right now if you want a nomination first
you go to the conservatives then to the independents
and julio cavalo…and get their approval..then you
come back to the republicans and say ..well you have
to nominate me because I have the support of the two
minor parties without which a republican can’t win..
It doesn;t matter that you can’t come up with a situation
where the conservatives blocked an electable candidate
they should not be able to block any republican electable
or not…they should not be able to cross endorse..thats
the point..once the GOPhas chosed a candidate there should
be no need for Mike Long’s approval…He is the one wiht
a litmus test..I ahve none..you can be pro choice pro life
or whatever as long as you are a republican..I am supporting
John McCain..he is pro life….that doesn’t give me a problem..but if Mike Long says he doesn;t like McCain’s
climate policy and therefore won’t support him whcih he
can now do..that gives Long the ability to veto..He
vetoed Pirro for senate …not that she could have won
in fact she was a terrible candidate..but it doesn;t
change the fact that Long was in a position to make
her candidacy a non starter..
and again what is the importance of whether my law
firm represents 9000 victims of ground zero toxicity
my political life is totally separate from my law life
to mr decaf you are quite right about jeries and the judicial races…he showed up at my office as the
“liason” between the county party and the judicial
campaigns..he then pilferred all of the campaigns
for himself and his two sidekicks…they of course
lost all the races..and one of the judges told
me the year afteward that when he was taken
to get his picture taken in what looked like
a “porn studio” he knew he was in trouble..
Panio was responsible..and now she and jeries
are both gone from the scene…funny how things
work out…
“not that she could have won
in fact she was a terrible candidate..but it doesn;t
change the fact that Long was in a position to make
her candidacy a non starter..”
That is a change in tune. You used to promote Pirro at all stops. You indicated at the time that she was the perfect candidate. You now take my position that Pirro should not have been blocked by Long but that she would not have won.
“I ahve none..you can be pro choice pro life
or whatever as long as you are a republican..I am supporting
John McCain..he is pro life….that doesn’t give me a problem”
Yes, it seem to at the state level. McCain, is at the national level. You have even made the odd claim that at the local level that pro-life candidates cannot win. This is odd as county executives and mayor do not decide abortion policy and voters know this.
“and again what is the importance of whether my law
firm represents 9000 victims of ground zero toxicity”
The importance if you criticize a candidate’s position on that issue you should disclose that you have some skin in the game.
As for the Conservative Party, Republicans are not bound to support who the Conservative Party does. In fact, if Republicans wanted to eliminate the Conservatives all they have to do is nominate someone else and the Conservative candidate does not run i.e. Andy Cuomo and the liberal party in 2002, than the Conservatives are off the ballot in the next election cycle.
Was that sleazy photo studio where the candidate’s picture was taken run by a friend of Zehy Jereis? Someone involved in Republican politics in the southern part of Westchester? Or was that photo session arranged by Panio?
to anti
1.what candidate has a position on the 9/11 lawsuits that
I have criticized..
2. I criticized the pirro selection for senate publicly
when it was made..regardless of mike long..you weren’t
paying attention
3. you still havent’ told us who you are in real life
4. your solution to eliminating the conservative party
is ridiculous as long as cross endorsements exists..
name one candidate who doesn;t want the extra line
and to wahoo…since I wasn’t at the shoot who knows
all I know is that the product was not appreciated
by the judicial candidates..and panio and jeries
and hoffman are now history…
I get the impression that Mike’s not going to the dinner.
I wouldn’t go if they gave me a free ticket, drinks
and a years supply of gasoline….
“3. you still havent’ told us who you are in real life
4. your solution to eliminating the conservative party
is ridiculous as long as cross endorsements exists..”
I will be able to disclose my identity if you promise to leave the Republican Party and to consult for Democrats.
My solution is not ridiculous. My solution was that if Republicans want to nominate someone that Conservatives reject in the primary, they should do so. You obviously misunderstodd it had nothing to do with politicians rejecting cross endorsements. Let’s see if you can follow this, the Conservative Party wants Faso and the Republican Party wants Weld, the Republican Party gives the nomination to Weld instead of Faso. Faso, most likely does not actively run as he no he has no chance of winning. The Conservative Party does not get enough on the party line and they lose their ballot spot. That is so ridiculous that it happened to the liberal party with Andrew Cuomo. No one has veto power over the Republican primary. Your argument is a red herring designed to detract from your own and your own allies personal political failings.
“what candidate has a position on the 9/11 lawsuits that
I have criticized..”
You previously criticized Spitzer and other Democrats without disclosing this. Full disclosure where you have a clear conflict of interest would be nice.
“I criticized the pirro selection for senate publicly
when it was made..regardless of mike long..you weren’t
paying attention”
Yes, but you claimed she was a great candidate for Attorney General, which is far different from you said today, which is that she was a terrible candidate. Moreover, you have consistently promoted her at every chance you get. You mainly criticized her as a Senate candidate after and not before she had a series of mishaps. You are great after the fact. You have an entire article dedicated to what a great AG candidate she would have been. It is public record. I guess you are embarrassed and took that down from your website along with the great piece about how campaign finance reform was going to save our democracy.
Oh, if prosecutors are apolitical so are judges. Bragging about electing Republican judges by your standard is nothing to brag about. After all, there is no Republican or Democratic way to judge a case going by your logic:-)
That sounds very fair. The Consultant helps elect the same judges he will later appear before. I was surpised that the Consultant after many years of not appearing in court suddenly was made a name partner at a prominent personal injury firm but now it makes sense. He has been brought in not for legal expertise but for his connections. The losers are all attorneys who have to face his law firm in a Westchester courtroom.
you are both totally out of order…anti..you certainly
have zero reasoning skills…you take statements turn
them around and attempt to justify your own view.
1. you refuse to disclose your identity unless I Leave the
Republican party..that is tantamount to extortion…
republicans don’t act like that…
2. you show a complete and utter misunderstanding of
the way a political race works…if there is a republican
nomination to be had as in the spencer and faso cases
and the general belief is that you can’t win without
the conservative party endorsement..in order to coerce
the republican endorsement a candidate first obtains
conservative support…if you don’t know that you shouldn’t
be in politics…and you clearly haven;t had the experience
necessary to understand where the leverage is in the process
your solution requires people in the legislature who rely
on the conservative party to reject them while they still
can cross endorse…not really very likely ….and from
what I understand you would be the last person to support
that…
I never said she was a bad candidate for attorney general
again you misread either intentiaally or because you choose
to..what I said was she was not a good senatorial candidate
Had she run initially for AG instead of being talked
into running for the senate she might have avoided page
10 and all that went with it..so again you mislead..
in addition I always thought she would be a good ag candidate…and when she announced for the senate
it was not after the fact..it was during the fact
that i criticized that choice..you either don’t
watch the commentary or you choose to interpret it
to your own liking
and finally on the issue of 9/11…are you suggesting
that all those volunteers who were toxically poisoned
should not be indemnified…I can make that argument
anywhere and at anytime…and there certainly isn’t a conflict …and as for electing judges..I don’t try
cases..so there are “no connections” you clearly
don’t understand the legal system 98% of all cases
settle..a judge isn’t even involved in most settlements
so there is hardly anything they could do even if they
wanted to…which I am happy to say in westchester county
would never happen…and in fact most of the judges
I elected have retired..the democrats now control
the agenda..are they going to rule against my firm
because they are democrats…not only do you make
no sense but your anger is obvious…and so is your
envy
So you conceed that you never appear in court yet a prominent personal injury firm offered you a name partnership in their firm. Why would they do that unless there is some non-legal rationale.
“I never said she was a bad candidate for attorney general
again you misread either intentiaally or because you choose
to.”
You said she was a bad candidate. You did not specify for which office. She ran for AG. As such, one can infer that you are talking about her candidacy for AG, the office which she actually ran for and lost by a huge margin. If you wanted to, you could have added the modifier that she was a bad candidate for Senate but you chose not to specify. You said she was a bad Senate candidate only after problems came out. There is a record of your statements. To think that none of her husband’s problems would have come out if she ran only for AG is naive at best.
My argument regarding third parties makes perfect sense. You just choose to intentionally ignore it so you can unfairly blame others for what you and your friends have done to the Westchester GOP.
I am in court every single day..you still don’t get it
and try to twist things to suit your own arguments
is that why you lost twice for congress?
and as for pirro I know what I said and when I said it
I have the tapes and the print stories…she was a poor
choice for the senate..in fact I told her that personally
before she announced..she was a good choice for ag..
it had nothing to do with the generic issue of whether
she was a good or bad candidate .that appears to be
your simplistic way of dealing with it..
and by the way when you were vice chairman of yonkers
with zhey wasn’t your committee the first one in
westchester to support FAso..who runied the republican
party?
Who says I was vice chairman of Yonkers? For someone in court everyday, you sure have a lot of time to post. If Pirro was such a good candidate for AG, why did she lose handily to someone who hadn’t even practiced law in many years for the job of chief law enforcement officer of New York?
“and as for pirro I know what I said and when I said it
I have the tapes and the print stories”
Great. Post all the tapes and stories in their entirety.
“I will tell you who I am if you leave the republican
party”...who are you to tell me to leave the party
apparently you’ve already left..and your former chair
is under investigation…were you involved?
are yuo denying you were vice chair in yonkers..
and if not..why don’t you tell us who you are
what are you hiding…maybe it wasn’t vice chair
but you did run for congress twice..didn’t you?
Hey, Mike, if they offer you the years worth of gas, can I have it?
tell you what walt..if they offer me a years worth
of gas …its yours…and I would go just so you
get the gas..hows that?
The deal remains, you leave the party and consult for the Democrats, which is your true allegiance and I will tell you who I am. But since you already claim to know, why are you asking? Ironically, you “consulting” for the Democrats will do more to help the party than anything else. Correct, me if I am wrong, but didn’t you lose quite handily in your race for Congress? People in glass houses should not throw stones.
I am surprised you are posting, given your busy court schedule. That’s sarcasm, in case you couldn’t pick it up.
You’re a prince among men, Mike!
actually I lost 55-45…got the gannett endorsement
as well as the daily news…but you know how hard it
is to beat an incumbant especially one who is the
heir to US plywood..However when I ran I had
respect from both sides of the aisle…how about
you…you get any major endorsements….
and Walt..anything for you…even eating rubber chicken
with the ‘conservative” party…
how do you like anti’s gauntlet throwing..why is he so
anxious for me to consult with the democrats..of course
I could take the postition that as a consultant
I am free to consult with anyone I think would make
a good office holder….anyone anyparty…but something
tells me anti has an interest in trying to tell republicans
that they should hire him..because he is the real republican
The way things are going for the GOP since W trashed their brand, you’d be better off staying away from those who say that they’re the real Republicans, Mike. When the party loses 3 Special Congressional elections, even the last one in Mississippi, ferchrissakes, if they won’t change, then they deserve what they get. It’s a sad day when anyone positioned in the middle is a RINO or DINO, but any party that doesn’t deal with the fact that elections and the electorate go to the center, is going down the drain. It’s OK to have principles and convictions, but convince me, explain them to me, don’t insult me. That’s where it’s at right now, and those who live by that modus operandi won’t be around too much longer, I predict.
you predict correctly walt…their is a dynamic in politics
a pendulum if you will…some people look backward fondly
at the reagan years..unfortunately they aren’t likely to
be duplicated…and those who yearn for the days of old
are going to be mighty surprised when their candidates
lose everytime …as we just saw in the three special
elections…one of which by the way was for denny
hastert’s seat…but you can see that “real” republicans
want the tent for themselves..ask anti..he will tell you
although his moniker kind of gives his mindset away
anyone who starts with the premise of being “anti”
is not exactly projecting a forward looking approach
Walt, you and the Consultant are a good fit… in the Democratic Party. Have fun with his electoral advice. The Republicans will be the majority party in Westchester, if the Consultant becomes your party’s advisor.
lots of anger in that one walt…of course it assumes
I had anything to do with the republican party in the
first place.which everyone knows is not even close…
but with republicans like anti..maybe changing registration
is a good idea….to non of course ..never democrat..that
way I can consult to both major parties…remember the
fastest growing party in no party…and thats nationally
No anger, just encouragement. Please switch as soon as possible. Since you will no longer be a Republican in name (you are already not one in principle) you will no longer be quoted as “Republican” strategist Mike Edelman in newspapers and you will no longer be representing the Republican position on newsmakers. Moreover, you will be giving the same lousy advice to Democrats that you now give to Republicans. It is a win-win all-around. Unfortunately, we all know you will never do so because once you become an independent you will have no influence in either party and no one will quote you anymore. PROVE ME WRONG AND DO IT.
And yeah, you have had nothing to do with the Republican Party, Newsmakers put you on show because you were just the run of the mill Hastings resident and they just decided to pick someone out of the blue and oh yeah, when you have been quoted in the Journal News it is because you have nothing to do with the Republican Party. Fat chance. Your whole reputation or lack thereof as the case may be has been through Westchester Republican politics. And Johnnie Cochran had nothing to do with OJ’s defense.
“Success has many fathers, failure is an orphan.”
Republican majority in Westchester? Good one, anti. Like all fairy tales it’s not based on reality. (Although, if Spano and Ryan keep it up, it may swing that way, especially at the county level. Glad I live in Putnam…)
The way I see it, there’s a serious disconnect with the GOP party line and their actions. They’ve gotta get back to being more like the GOP of Eisenhower’s time, or even more like Nixon’s era (without unnecessary wars and the paranoid lying.)
From a year ago on this blog.
“The latest name being circulated as a possible replacement for Westchester GOP Chairwoman RoseMarie Panio is a familiar one to those involved in county politics Republican strategist/commentator Mike Edelman.
Yonkers GOP Chairman Zehy Jereis confirmed today that Edelman is among those being considered for the job of leading Westchester’s Republican Committee, though he stressed it’s still early in the process.
“Mike Edelman has been very critical of the Republican Party over the past years, maybe he can come in and tell us what we are doing wrong,” Jereis said.
Edelman, in a telephone interview today, confirmed that he has been contacted by Republican officials about his interest in becoming chairman and said he would accept the post if it was offered to him. However, he said he is not campaigning for the job.”
But again, the Consultant has nothing to do with Westchester GOP politics. The GOP reached out to him because he is just an everyday citizen who has nothing to do with politics.
ANTI
IS VERY ANNOYING. FUNNY THAT YOU TELL MIKE HE HAS A LOT OF TIME ON HIS HANDSBEING THAT YOU LIVE OFF YOUR WIFE. I ALSO THINK ITS FUNNY HOW YOU KNOW BASH THE SPANO BROTHERS – YOU SUPPORTED THEM NOT TOO LONG AGO FELLA!IF YOU ARE WHO EVERONE THINKS YOU ARE, YOU SHOULD RELAX ANTI – YOU SEEM VERY BITTER GUY
anti is more than bitter..it comes across..anyone who
tracks what I said clearly has isues….you will note
that I was NOT made the chairman of the party…
that should be a clear indication of my lack of participation in THE PARTY…and yes I have been
critical of the party just as congressman davis
has recently in light of the poor showing
in three congressional races…you will note that
those who I specifically have been critical of
are no longer leaders…funny how things work out.
the poster named anti seems to desperately want me
to change my registration….apparently he thinks
his credentials as a republican are the only ones
that count…but if you ask a whole host of people
they probably would dispute that and would have
no idea who anti is even if he decided to reveal
his identity…but they would be able to tell
you who I am….so here you have an obscure critic
who wants another republican to leave the party
does he think he would be asked to make public
comments…or appear on newsmakers…never happen
i wouldn’t even wast my timw with that guy mike. he is well below you.
HE CALLS HIMSELF A TRUE REP BUT DOESN’T SUPPORT AMICONE/SPANO/MUTAGH/BARBATO/MCLAUGHLIN WHICH REPUBLICANS DOES HE SUPPORT?
Lou my good fellow..I think I shall take your advice…
thanks for the kind words…you and I both know who he
is..and he certainly only supports one guy…and that
one guy now has his hands full…
Lou, stop shilling for Mike Edelman. He can defend himself. That is when his hands are not full chasing ambulances. Lou, please stick to what you best at: cleaning toilets and collecting government subsidies.
While you are at you may want to go back to school and pick up a GED as obviously the educational system of this country has failed you miserably.
Another person anxious to hide behind anonymity and
rely on personal attacks…hope your family never
has an accident or gets poisoned by food, or any one
of hundreds of things that would make you say hey..
maybe the person doing the act should be punished for
his negligence…and I also hope you don’t know any
of our 9/11 heroes who are suffering debilitating diseases
and without our assistance would not have any chance
of being compensated for what they went through at
ground zero..its easy to throw out the words ambulance
chaser…what is it you do for a living..I am sure
I can make a great deal of fun out of it as well
but bottom line is it shows you have very little class
kind of like the tennesee republican party now attacking
michelle obama…