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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Hello there, upstate New Yorker here, I'm from Rochester. While you all make reasonable arguments, I would submit that I just want someone who will do the damn job and take it seriously.
Here in upstate New York, we're hurting. We're losing jobs and population at an alarming rate. Our infrastructure is crumbling. Our politicians, democrat and republican, are only concerned with protecting their little fiefdoms and consolidating their own power, to the detriment of the people they are supposed to represent. (There are few standouts like the excellent Congresswoman Louise Slaughter and New York Assemblyman David Koon)
I don't care if Governor Paterson appoints Caroline Kennedy or a monkey, I just want someone who will care enough about New York to bring about real change....change that is desperately needed. Look, we have a lot of potential up here. Ever see an autumn in upstate New York? There is nothing like it. We touch two Great Lakes. We have a wide range of outstanding colleges and universities: University of Rochester, Syracuse University, Cornell, and the excellent SUNY system. And don't forget about the Finger Lakes which are magnificent.
A Senate seat is not a toy, it's not a game, it's not something to do when you're bored. Does Caroline have what it takes to get something done? I honestly don't know. Does she deserve a chance when so much is on the line?
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
