pictured above, Original Good Old Boy Lew Kirschnerwith 101st Assemblyman Kevin Cahill
The Staff at Ulster Politics has found an interesting "site" about Kevin Cahill. While we are pretty web savy and informed, we can not claim credit for producing this..... only for finding it out there in the blog-o-sphere and bringing it to you.
Click here for some interesting information about Assemblyman Kevin Cahill's record.
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Let's Dump Cahill, and hope that Manhattan dumps Silver.
New York Daily News
Dump Sheldon Silver
Sunday, September 7th 2008, 4:00 AM
The time has come for the voters of lower Manhattan to turn Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver out of office.
After 32 years in his seat, including 14 years as the Assembly's maximum leader, Silver embodies the insider's game that has captured the state Legislature, to the detriment of 19 million New Yorkers.
Silver's constituents would serve the cause of open, responsive government - and rock Albany to its foundations - by pulling the lever in Tuesday's Democratic primary for challenger Paul Newell.
Across America in this election year, people are demanding change. Let's have it in Albany, too.
Such a vote could mark the start of a revolution. For dumping Silver would send the unmistakable message that the people of this state want a responsible, deliberative Legislature rather than a boss-run fiefdom.
In the process, the lower East Side, East Village, Chinatown, Wall Street and Battery Park City would gain in Newell a well-qualified representative who is both in sync with the district's political leanings and in touch with grass-roots concerns about traffic, schools, affordable housing and sustainable neighborhoods.
Up against one of New York's most powerful men, Newell, 33, a community activist well-versed in the issues, has been knocking on doors. For the first time in many an election cycle, Silver has had to go knocking, too.
Nothing better illustrates Albany's lack of accountability than that Silver has not faced competition for reelection in 22 years. Only now is he being called to answer for so lowering the Legislature that it was properly branded the worst in the nation.
What happens in the Assembly is a charade. Individual lawmakers are all but irrelevant. They have surrendered their authority to Silver, who rewards loyalists with added pay and pork-barrel grants for their districts. (While dispensing a gargantuan $2 million a year to his own pet causes.)
The rank-and-file do what they are told - to the point that until recently, they were counted as automatically voting yes even though they were not present in the chamber. There are no meaningful hearings, and every bill that comes to the floor passes, as Silver dictates.
The big decisions are made in his inner sanctum, easily accessed by politically connected players who have much at stake in acts of the Legislature. In such a distortion of democracy, it's no wonder the state budget has ballooned beyond proportion.
Nor is it any wonder that in 1999, in order to spare some of his suburban members political discomfort, Silver killed the tax on commuters, costing the city a total of $6.4 billion and climbing. Think of what the money could have meant to the police, parks or schools.
Nor is it any wonder that Silver peremptorily buried Mayor Bloomberg's congestion-pricing plan, along with $350 million in federal mass transit aid - without putting the highly debated proposal to a vote.
His high-handedness was all the more outrageous, representing, as he does, a district overrun by traffic from the three lower East River bridges and the Battery and Holland tunnels.
Then, too, Silver takes full advantage of New York's lax ethics laws to conceal how much money he makes serving as "of counsel" to a major firm of trial lawyers - a group that would be loath to have the Legislature impose any manner of tort or malpractice reform.
There have been times when we agreed with Silver on the merits of an issue. To his credit, he supported raising the minimum wage when it had been frozen in New York for years, and he was a key figure in securing school funding for the city. But those were bright spots in a bleak record.
When they go to the polls Tuesday, Democratic voters of the 64th Assembly District - perhaps 15,000 strong - have the opportunity to bring desperately needed change to all New York. And they have a solid choice in Newell, who displays impressive passion about the quality of life in neighborhoods across lower Manhattan.
Elect Newell. Dump Silver.
How does this relate to our area?
Sheldon Silver = Kevin Cahill
Kevin Cahill = Lew Kirschner
Lew Kirschner = Mike Hein
Some may not recall Sean Mathews attempt to do the very thing that Albany is trying with this webpage.In fact some of the same crap is included on this webpage which verifies where it is coming from. I remind you that Mathews was ostracized and shunned in this community to the point where he eventually left. The people of Ulster county know the difference between the facts of Cahill's service and a smear campaign. They will not tolerate this kind of nonsense again.
Did you ever ask yourself why they select Cahill? I think it simple, they are afraid of what he brings to the table, his effectiveness, and his ever increasing power in Albany. They don't bother with nobodies.
So does Ulster Politics endorse this website?
You just went on my official "too biased to believe" list of blogs. Anyone that even provides a link to this kind of garbage has proven their worthlessness. I expect this kind of bias from Blaber, but expected better from you.
You just went on my official "too biased to believe" list of blogs. Anyone that even provides a link to this kind of garbage has proven their worthlessness. I expect this kind of bias from Blaber, but expected better from you.
Pathetic, nothing to offer the voters so she goes negative in September. What a jerk Yess is. Yess must not remember how the voters repudiated Sean Mathews when he did this.
Try and win on your merits, if you have any.
HOLY COW settle down...
Ulster Politics was looking at inactive blogs to remove them because our list was getting to long.
We knew that HVWag.blogspot.com hadn't been active in a while.
When we visited, it to be sure that they were inactive, and there was a google ad at the top for the Cahill files. It seemed current, so we put it up.... you know.. we report, you decide...
We've heard your opinion..
There is a lot of negative stuff about Republicans too.
We don't really care either way, we let Blaber handle that part.
If you want to rile up the Democrats, start the slanderous campaigning again.
Why is it that any attack on a Republican is OK and anything about a Democrat is not.
Democrats are good at dishing it out but can't take it.
Democrats routinely attack Sarah Palin for the most ridiculous things.
Jeremy Blaber routinely attacks Republicans and puts up false polls, and that's A.O.K. with the Dems.
No crimes have been alledged here, it looks to me as if it's a creative way of displaying how Mr. Cahill votes on things in Albany.
It's pretty clear that someone with access and know how to read Albany stuff did this.
I think it's informative.
There has not been a whole lot of information about the Yess / Cahill race for people to base their decisions on.
Instead of being a cry baby, why don't you explain some of Mr. Cahill's positions on the things written about?
Hmm, lyng about the misuse of power, losing state money on E-bay, and your daughter's pregnancy are ridiculous things. Palin's pretty ridiculous. Criticizing her seems appropriate to me. Most Republicans think it's appropriate too. Slander isn't even necessary.
yes, instead of being such cry babies, like Julian Schriebman, why don't you address some of the issues that are brought up on the Cahill Files?
I know I'd like to hear why Mr. Cahill voted that way
Why don't you ask him?
I have never seen Mr. Cahill turn away from a question. Ask him, I am sure most of them are committee votes or tied to some other ridiculous amendment made by the republicans for the purpose of using against the Dems at a later date. They do that regularly, it is common practice. Especially on bills for education, law enforcement, or elderly population issues.
I have never seen Mr. Cahill turn away from a question. Ask him, I am sure most of them are committee votes or tied to some other ridiculous amendment made by the republicans for the purpose of using against the Dems at a later date. They do that regularly, it is common practice. Especially on bills for education, law enforcement, or elderly population issues.
Who are the cowards that would post such a website without acknowledging who they are? It is one thing to post on a blog, it is another to devote an entire website specifically to slander a public official. Cowards.
Who ever is whining on how this site and the owner of the Cahill files should be sued, here is a big SHUT UP AND STOP CRYING to you. We conservative republicans have to deal with bullshit like this on a daily basis. Stop with the "well with Palin it's true" so it's not libel.
You know what's really dishonest on your part? Hillary Clinton STUMPED and VOTED for the war. But no one from your side is calling her a liar, and misleading NYers into a war. You don't criticise her for not having her own intellegence.
Ulster Pols, can you provide me with a list of hits to your website. I would love to cross reference them with the post times, and then publish who is posting what. I think that would be alot of fun.
Most of these examples have the bill info for you to look up for yourself. How is that slander, because some one actually checked. It is no different than the freeman printing "How they voted".
I could have added a couple of examples that I follow where Cahill's vote was off of the wall
Lets see, this picture is of two men who have dedicated a total of over 50 years to public service. Cahill, an Attorney by education, could make 2x's the salary he makes as an assemblyman. Kirshcner has helped hundreds of people/families stay in their homes by working out payment schedules for them to pay off 3 years of unpaid taxes.
Evil guys these two are, both of them.
This is a RACC smear website if I ever saw one. I can only imagine the outcry if DACC did something like this against Yess.
For all of you who are complaining about what "Democrats" have posted on blogs, show me one comment Assemblyman Cahill has made on any of these blogs. I think it is ok to go after those bloggers who identify themselves, but to assume Assemblyman Cahill approves of, or even knows, anything that is said in the blogs is not fair to him. As far as I can tell, this was an unprovoked negative website for the sole purpose of making Cahill look bad, because there is nothing Yess can use to run on. So RACC will try to invent an image of Cahill that is distorted and full of 1/2 truths and innuendo. In short, gutter politics as usual from Albany.
8:50, it really makes one wonder, why do they do it then? hmmmmmmmmm
hmmmmmmmmmmmm why would they do it, if it's not for the money?
gee, I don't know, can anyone think of why?
what's the benefit?
oh, what's that? ahhhhhhhh!
yes, that's it
7:59 and Bubel... YOU GO!
What THUGS these Cahill supporters are!
They have a very threatening tone about their posts don't they?
I would hope that Mr. Cahill does not approve of this style of defense of him.
Threatening tone? My are we sensitive. What's next? Perceived menacing body language?
No Mr. Cahill or Mr. Cahill's staffer, you're the sensitive one.
Go back to work and get something done up there in Albany.
How about cutting our taxes?
Oh, that's right Sheldon isn't interested.
OK, keep blogging
Rich Cahill made an interesting observation on his blog. If DEM's say it's not true, provide the proof. The site in question has provided citations. Prove them wrong.
Threatening? Please point this out, I am missing it. I am a Cahill supporter and I am not what would be considered a thug.
Cahill or any other Kingston attorney can't make the 450K he gets in salary, per diems, discretionary office staffing, political campaign donations and benefits he gets from the taxpayers for part time work Why did so many judge candidates apply?
Things got really slow after that post about the IP log. hmmm
Looks like Steve was right, as to the cowardness of 'Chuckles', aka BBT. He just realized that his IP address can be tracked, and the owner of this site (unlike Blaber) might not hide his identity.
The originating IP addresses can also be masked. So that isn't much of a threat.The "owner" of this site can not tell who is posting anonymously if the right precautions are taken. Nice try though.
Could it be that an anonymous distorted, dirty politics based website generated no interest? hmmm Maybe Yes and Mario should think about that? The people who read it took it for what it is, a bunch of Bullsh*t posted by cowards who won't even own up to posting it. Yes will be sorry she chose to take this tact. Mark my words, the voters will show her what they want in a campaign and it isn't gutter, smear, distorted garbage. Cahill has been around long enough that the voters know the difference between campaign crap and real life results. I hope she does keep up the smear campaign, it just proves that she has NOTHING to offer the voters.
If you have nothing offer, try and make the other guys look worse. No matter how hard she tries, she will never accomplish her goal and ruin her reputation as she tries.
Nice job spanking Robin Yess in the WFP primary Kevin. I can not wait to see how badly you beat her in November.
Spanking Robin Yess is a nice job!
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