Tag: new york

Tweet of the Day, This BTW Means That Andrew Cuomo Won’t Be Running For President edition.

This is one of the better Photoshops that I’ve seen:

 

Background at the link: suffice it to say that Andrew Cuomo said something very, very politically stupid about pro-lifers Friday, and while it may or may not actually keep him from being re-elected this year it will be an albatross around his neck in 2016, as well as any hypothetical federal appointments down the line. Or, ooh, maybe he’ll get tagged in for the 2016 Veep nomination! That’d be sweet.

Rep. Bill Owens (D, New York-21) cuts and runs.

Nice.

 

This was that thoroughly contested seat (the one involving Doug Hoffman) that drove the GOP nuts in 2009 and 2010 in trying to take it back. As Politico implies, Bill Owens hasn’t really been fitting in in Congress and the Republican party has been actively planning to go for it in 2014; we just took a large step towards retaking it.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

PS: Circumstances in 2009 (GOP assigning candidate) and 2010 (loser of the GOP primary making an abortive third-party run) are what gave Owens his chance in the first case; his 2012 win against a regular GOP candidate was razor-thin.  Without incumbency, this race shifts in the GOP’s direction pretty much immediately.

Mike McIntyre cuts and ru… what’s that? CAROLYN MCCARTHY (D, NY-04) is out?

Carolyn “I’m blaming my lung cancer on my father being around asbestos and not my pack-a-day habit?” McCarthy? Carolyn “I used Heath Shuler’s money-laundering-for-lobbyists scheme” McCarthy? Carolyn “PMA Porker” McCarthy?

Ayup. Announced it at the same time as McIntyre.  My response?

“O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.

Continue reading Mike McIntyre cuts and ru… what’s that? CAROLYN MCCARTHY (D, NY-04) is out?

“Miami 2017.”

Not the song of the night, but as Ace of Spades HQ noted in its sidebar it’s downright alarming how prophetic this song is going to be.

I have to say, you’d expect Billy Joel to have written a slightly less chipper song about the upcoming destruction of New York City*.

Moe Lane

*He wrote it several years ago, so it’s not a political statement about the new DeBlasio administration.

Two cheers for The New York Post’s opposition to fusion voting.

The New York Post almost gets it, here:

In its lengthy report exposing mischief in New York’s political system, the Moreland Commission missed a major target for real reform: the state’s minor political parties.

Because of a quirk in state law, minor parties in New York wield influence far beyond their numbers. That’s because New York is the rare state that allows minor parties to cross-endorse candidates of the top two parties.

It’s an invitation to corruption: Cross-endorsements give minor parties power by allowing them to extract promises — or cash — out of major-party candidates in exchange for giving them an extra ballot line or doing their dirty work.

Continue reading Two cheers for The New York Post’s opposition to fusion voting.

Latest victim of #Obamacare: …New York cultural mavens? Is the man MAD?

(Via @EWErickson) Remember, we must be careful not to gratuitously grind these people’s faces in the dirt over their problems:

Many in New York’s professional and cultural elite have long supported President Obama’s health care plan. But now, to their surprise, thousands of writers, opera singers, music teachers, photographers, doctors, lawyers and others are learning that their health insurance plans are being canceled and they may have to pay more to get comparable coverage, if they can find it.

They are part of an unusual informal health insurance system that has developed in New York in which independent practitioners were able to get lower insurance rates through group plans, typically set up by their professional associations or chambers of commerce. That allowed them to avoid the sky-high rates in New York’s individual insurance market, historically among the most expensive in the country.

…Why? Because of people like lawyer Barbara Meinwald, Manhattan lawyer who was already paying 10K/yr for insurance before, but will now have to pay 15K/yr for worse coverage. Turns out the government decided to drag all those people to the individual market in order to get the healthy ones paying into the exchanges (and thus avoid an exchange death spiral), and Ms. Meinwald gets to go along for the ride.  Her reaction? Continue reading Latest victim of #Obamacare: …New York cultural mavens? Is the man MAD?

Sean Eldridge (D-CAND) gets Frank Steinherr as a primary challenger in NY-19.

So nice to see an anointed candidate for the Other Side have to suddenly discover that there’s going to be a primary, after all:

Congressional hopeful Sean Eldridge may have to face an unexpected primary challenge from a fellow Democrat in New York’s 19th.

On Monday, Frank Steinherr, an attorney, sent an email to Democratic County Chairs pitching himself as “the right choice” to combat Republican incumbent Chris Gibson. Eldridge “brings big problems,” the young lawyer wrote. “His candidacy has been welcomed by Republicans almost as much as Eldridge’s own supporters!”

Dang.  They’re on to us. Continue reading Sean Eldridge (D-CAND) gets Frank Steinherr as a primary challenger in NY-19.

Tweet of the Day, I Thought That This Was HYSTERICAL edition.

But not as hysterical as the reactions to it. There are a lot of Lefties out there who aren’t happy about the fact that the only way to run the City is to emulate the Rudy Giuliani model; seeing how De Blasio deals with that is going to make for compelling watching.

From several states away. I do plan to stop by Manhattan in December, and do some last-minute shopping before the place turns into the NYC I remember as a child*. After that, well, elections have consequences.

Moe Lane

*My parents fled the City when I was eight. Draw your own conclusions from that as to how happy those memories were.

New York state Health Department sending desperate #obamacare callers to… cupcake shop.

This is not a good month for Obamacare.

Thanks to ObamaCare, New Yorkers can now get health insurance with rainbow sprinkles.

In yet another bungle for the botched government insurance rollout, the state Health Department has mistakenly listed numerous non-health-related business as enrollment sites — including a Brooklyn cupcake shop that has been besieged by callers.

The aggravating bit? If we had a proper free market, that cupcake shop could take advantage of this screwup and start selling those people health insurance policies.

Via… somebody or other.

Moe Lane