well that's great to see Gov. Patterson supporting and being proud of his Domincan brothers he's
he's acknowledging his heritage and not forgetting where he came from.

P.S. He also grew up out here in L.I., from Hempsted, NY.

He wants to get re-elected...good for him.

"a legislation introduced by assemblyman Adriano Espaillat"

oooo

Espaillat is on a roll.

This is his second big score in a week.

The first thing was to get his legislative aide Nelson Castro, a Dominican American, picked over several highly-pissed off PR contenders, by the local Democratic Party unit to represent a part of the Bronx in the NY State Assembly, which is tantamount to election to the seat. Espaillat leaped in when he saw a rift among the PRs who wanted to kept the seat, but couldn't unite on a PR. But there are not too many hard feelings among the PRs if Nelson Castro turns out to be poltically and ideologically sound, not a slimy GOP hiding in the political closet.

Now, as the second thing, his bill to provide insurance to cover medical care and compensation for a class of workers who are injured in the course of employment, in exchange for mandatory relinquishment of the employee's right to sue his or her employer for the tort of negligence was passed.

Espaillat seems to know his political craft.

Neither score was possible without the right allies, given the limited Dominican presence in the NY legislature -- the PRs, AA, DA, and white liberal assemblypersons were needed to get it done.

So, Espaillat is connected.

The first score, the Nelson Castro thing, was a matter of poltical form, but the second, the workers' comp thing, is a matter of content.

Ordinarily, the entire poltical agenda is taken up with bourgeois issues or issues approached from a bourgeois point of view.

But in this case, the workers are the chief beneficiaries of this expansion of insurance coverage. The capitalists generally try restrict coverage as much as possible, leaving huge sectors of the working class out of the system.

That over half of the applicable workers are Dominican is, to be sure, accurate trageting by Espaillat, but the passage of the bill would have been a big score even if the workers were not mostly Dominican.

such mumble jumbo....

As for New York State Governor David Paterson support for the bill, Paterson may get the taxi drivers vote next time he runs, but owners of taxi companies and the workers' comp-haters may be for Paterson's next opponent.

If the Dominican American bourgeoisie in NY resembles its bourgeois counterpart on the island, it, to say the least, is rather conservative, and will likely end up opposing David Paterson in his upcoming fray against some slimy reactionary GOP.

But there's ... NO ... doubt which side Espaillat will support.

"such mumble jumbo...."

oooo

So, you don't understand.

Good.

In the picture above, Paterson looks more like a NYC taxi driver than a governor.

Although he's as blind as a bat, he probably drives a lot better than NYC taxi drivers.

Hence, their interest in the expansion of the workers' comp system to them.

[Where did he get that tie with those awful black triangles sticking down and white ones sticking up? Blindness can't explain that. Ghastly.]

Espaillat and Paterson better watch out. As US reactionaries ... about one-third of the US popualtion ... face the possibility of losing state power after eight long years of repressing the USA with universal electronic surveillance and their powers of warrantless and chargeless arrest and indefinite detention under USA Patriot Act, their homicidal and genocidal nature emerges or surfaces more and more everyday.

oooo

"Man shot churchgoers over liberal views"

AP

"KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - An unemployed man accused of opening fire with a shotgun and killing two people at a Unitarian Universalist church apparently targeted the congregation out of hatred for its support of liberal social policies, police said Monday."

0000

The degenerates of the rightwing are really becoming unglued.

One thing I know is that the blind Governor can write better than all the disjointed COMMIE garbage spilling out of your muddled head.

"One thing I know is that the blind Governor can write better than all the disjointed COMMIE garbage spilling out of your muddled head. "

oooo

You antiquated CAPPIE, a fossil from the late middle ages, how have you stayed around so long? Did they wrap you up like a mummy? The stench that arises from you advanced ideological and other decomposition must be intolerable.

The burning sulphurs of Hell can't match it.

No matter how foul this smell of rot may be, it wans compared to the vile beliefs you express and relish.

I am happy for those hardworking honest drivers who deserve this protection. However, can somebody please remind them that we have traffic laws in this country and they shouldn't drive like it's rush hour en la capital.

Are they all legal?

"I am happy for those hardworking honest drivers who deserve this protection. However, can somebody please remind them that we have traffic laws in this country and they shouldn't drive like it's rush hour en la capital."

oooo

NYC cab drivers are often testy.

The first time I went there they were mostly USAs, like the celebrated De Niro character. The next time, Romanians; I have no idea how they got over here and into the cabs. Then the cab drivers turned into Nigerians. Now, they are Dominicans.

With all this diversity of national origin, you would expect that they would be very different, but they stay the same.

Crazy.

"Are they all legal?"

The Nigerians told me their accent was "upstate." I didn't ask ... whether upstate NY or upstate Nigeria.

When you look at the workers' comp thing, the Dominicans seem to saying that they, unlike their predecessors, will not yield their position in the cab to anybody new.

I guess this puts a whole new spin on liberals when they say it is just another case of the "Blind Leading the Blind"

"I guess this puts a whole new spin on liberals when they say it is just another case of the 'Blind Leading the Blind' "

oooo

Henry Winston, the great proletarian revolutionary from the USA, was blind, but he told people "Look, I lost only my sight, but not my vision."

Balail,

Why are you still supporting the evil corporations?

"Why are you still supporting the evil corporations?"

oooo

Are you delusional or do you suffer from some other perceptual disorder?

(I see you're trying to set me up. Come with it, I'll play the game just to see what you got.)

lets get real here! Espaillat is known for his absentism in the arena of politics he was just as stand in the picture kind of guy. Now you got the cab drivers who will vote for him as a result of insurance that they (the cabdrivers) could have purchase on their own and that they(cabdrivers) themselves will have to pay out of their pockets.
Its just a way of saying here I am doing things for my community, vote for me on the next election!
If you believe that Espaillat really cares for us, please let us know,because where we stand and how the neighborhood is being bleached out by the landlords very soon we will not have a neighborhood to live in, we are being kicked out to the bronx (which over 95% is a hellhole) or brooklyn(90%heeellllhole) queens (90%hellhole),or staten island the land of the landfield (used to but toxicity isnt easy 2 get rid of, I dont care what is said). Who will help us stay in OUR neighborhood Espaillat! Think again...

NYCDR, very true,but gentrification is not an easy thing to stop .

I have no problems with Dominicans leaving NYC. They should all go to PA buy cheap homes and raise 2.3 children in the suburbs.

Written by: FranktheTank, 29 Jul 2008 10:39 AM
From: United Kingdom
NYCDR, very true,but gentrification is not an easy thing to stop .

It can be, a lot of the areas are very deteriorated and gang crimes are rising. At the same time, we have the new comers (who consume what is being sold), these are not upper class, but low class rural people with no exposure to the world around them other than cow don, their exposure is the minorities portraited on TV.
I dont believe in impossibles... People were sent to the moon, in the past it was thought as a dream or an imposibility. Its possible.

Written by: TonyTunTun, 29 Jul 2008 10:58 AM
From: United States
I have no problems with Dominicans leaving NYC. They should all go to PA buy cheap homes and raise 2.3 children in the suburbs.


Did you mean Living? as in to vivir? I am guessing that's what you meant. We should not go anywhere, we have been migrating to the NYC area since the late 50's and 60's. Now that they have an agenda we should go to rural areas???The reason why there is a movement into the big cities and its growing is because the rural areas dont have any real jobs. Ask the majority of white people who are between 21-35 and they all tell you they come from a rural town that is dead or dying with no real jobs to be had, and they have no choice but to move into the big cities.
We walk away and then when we find the non existent nirvana or rural USA with no real exposure to minorities other than what they see on TV, we will lament the stupid choice of leaving our neighborhoods behind. You chose

NYCDR, this is the reality that our community is facing, and to be honest, I don’t see anything that we can do about it .We are just simply going to get priced out of the heights and some parts of Brooklyn our people are just going to have to move on.

Commute into the city for work but grow a family in the suburbs. Growing up in washington heights is not good.

Written by: FranktheTank, 29 Jul 2008 1:05 PM
From: United Kingdom
NYCDR, this is the reality that our community is facing, and to be honest, I don’t see anything that we can do about it .We are just simply going to get priced out of the heights and some parts of Brooklyn our people are just going to have to move on.

Well, reality is also we have the option to buy our building and or apartments from our landlords.

Written by: TonyTunTun, 29 Jul 2008 1:06 PM
From: United States
Commute into the city for work but grow a family in the suburbs. Growing up in washington heights is not good.

yeah, check out why people from LI are not commuting but moving to NYC! Its a quality of life issue and a lack of time and quality of life issue. People hate commuting it takes more than 3 hours of their day from point a to point b.
also, if the heights is so bad, then how come its being bleachout!??? I dont remember a ethic, white or black being beat up because they are an specific race, we dominicans dont have a race issue period! You go about your business and dont show off, you are left alone PERIOD!

Go ahead move out...you'll regret it.

"Well, reality is also we have the option to buy our building and or apartments from our landlords."

easier said than done

"Very true,but gentrification is not an easy thing to stop ."

oooo

When I visited under the Koch regime, gents tried to throw you out by technicalities at Housing Court or buy you out or price you out.

When I revisited under the Rudy's regime, the gents burned you out. If that didn't work, the Rudy lovers, mostly filthy GOPs, shot you or shoved a broom up your behind.

Espaillat may not be the sole or even best person to blame for the beast or the gents that Rudy and others of his ilk let loose on low and middle-income tenants.

During my study of the housing crisis up there, I found at least 10,000 tenant rights groups which lacked the will or desire to unite into one or a few powerful forces.

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The private health care insurers are not always as competent or as moral as many of the insurance company-lovers preach. Michael Moore exposed quite a few of them. Workers often find a better deal within various state-regulated systems of health care.

"Are you delusional or do you suffer from some other perceptual disorder?

(I see you're trying to set me up. Come with it, I'll play the game just to see what you got.)"

Does your computer use a Microsoft or Apple operating system? Was your PC built in North Korea and then given to you?

Remember the Internet was created by the U.S Dept. of Defense and it function totally due to the Capitalist System.

Its being bleached out by yuppies and gays...new yorkers, not by white families. Though there are some families, the majority are yuppies. Dominicans are family oriented people and washington heights is not the best place to raise a family.

p. 1

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/...._ylt=At60a.PhHCwsCRrEyuPlQ0FsnwcF

Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign launched a massive $20 million effort to attract Latino voters on Tuesday, hoping to erase the inroads the Republican Party has made with the key demographic group in the last two presidential elections.

Frank Sanchez, the chairman of the Obama for America National Hispanic Leadership Council, said the unprecedented effort will focus on paid advertising, online organizing, increased staffing in Latino communities and organizing surrogates to hit the campaign trail.

["Surrogates?" Not tactful.]

Sanchez said efforts will be particularly focused in the key swing states of Nevada, Florida, New Mexico and Colorado, where Latino voters could make up the margin of victory.

[Evidently California and NY don't "swing."]

[Only swinging Florida has a good number of Dominicans.]

[With these, immigration is bigger than war.]

p. 2

According to a new poll conducted by The Pew Hispanic Center, Obama leads Sen. John McCain among Latinos 66 percent to McCain's 23 percent.

[Quite a lead. Just over 40 points.]

“The giant has woken up and we are being prodded by the Obama campaign,” said Rep. Hilda Solis, an early supporter of Obama’s primary opponent, Sen. Hillary Clinton, who now says she is firmly in the Obama camp.

Salazar, who has worked on Hispanic outreach for the last two Democratic presidential campaigns, said this effort was different from any previous attempts.

[In 2000 and 2004.]

“In the past, what you have seen is just talk,” he said. “What you are seeing today is a real commitment.”

Representatives from the Obama campaign said they were already running ads on Spanish-language radio stations in the four states and would soon be up with television ads.

“This time, the [Latino community] is not just being treated as an afterthought,” said Rep. Raul M. Grijalva.

Written by: FranktheTank, 29 Jul 2008 2:03 PM
From: United Kingdom
"Well, reality is also we have the option to buy our building and or apartments from our landlords."

easier said than done

THIS IS WHERE THE POLITICIANS WHO ARE VOTED IN BY US ARE TO HELP US FIND A SOLUTION, NOT DO A THING THAT WAS ALREADY AVAILABLE CLAIM IT AS YOUR OWN FOR MEDIA ATTENTION AND VOTING SUPPORT.

Very true,but gentrification is not an easy thing to stop ."

oooo
When I visited under the Koch regime, gents tried to throw you out by technicalities at Housing Court or buy you out or price you out.
When I revisited under the Rudy's regime, the gents burned you out. If that didn't work, the Rudy lovers, mostly filthy GOPs, shot you or shoved a broom up your behind.
Espaillat may not be the sole or even best person to blame for the beast or the gents that Rudy and others of his ilk let loose on low and middle-income tenants.

During my study of the housing crisis up there, I found at least 10,000 tenant rights groups which lacked the will or desire to unite into one or a few powerful forces.


BELIAL, EVEN THOUGH I AM NOT A FAN OF YOUR VIEWS AND POLITICS I WILL AGREE WITH A PART OF YOUR STATEMENT.
True that there are groups that may lack the will or desire, but that is mainly because of lack of education and or exposure and most of all negative views of taking

Very true,but gentrification is not an easy thing to stop ."



BELIAL, EVEN THOUGH I AM NOT A FAN OF YOUR VIEWS AND POLITICS I WILL AGREE WITH A PART OF YOUR STATEMENT.
True that there are groups that may lack the will or desire, but that is mainly because of lack of education and or exposure and most of all negative views of taking GOLIATH DEAD ON!!!

"Very true,but gentrification is not an easy thing to stop."

Guessed u misted when I posted that comment and belial quoted me lol
So I guess ur still not a fan of what belial posts lol

“True that there are groups that may lack the will or desire, but that is mainly because of lack of education and or exposure and most of all negative views of taking GOLIATH DEAD ON!!!”

And thats precisely why gentrification is not easy to stop specially in a market driven by scarcity.

FranktheTank! :)
thanks, I missed it. Well tonight's news told that NYC house market prices has risen 21% for apartments sales and 12% for houses.
So, its great if you own your apartment already, but not so great if you are a renter.

July 30,

AP- "It's a challenge pollsters and news organizations get all the time. And why not — the profusion of polls can be confusing. This week alone, one USA Today-Gallup Poll [GOP-rigged] showed Barack Obama leading John McCain in the presidential race by 3 percentage points and a separate Gallup Poll showed Obama up by 8 points."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200807...._ylt=AhxwCfejMsMrPmE_Dlc6xsRsnwcF


July 30

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll [GOP-rigged] for Wednesday shows that Barack Obama now attracts 45% of the vote while John McCain earns 43%. When "leaners" are included, it’s Obama 48% and McCain 46%
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/p..../daily_presidential_tracking_poll

oooo

US capitalist media play up GOP-rigged polls.

Simply add 6 or 7 points to the number the GOP-rigged polls report for Obama to get the accurate Obama count.

Ok. I'll bite.
How is the USA Today poll rigged?
Considering that the USA cosnsitanty packs the Demo nominee I am curious to hear your spin.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain moved from being behind by 6 points among “likely” voters a month ago to a 4-point lead over Democrat Barack Obama among that group in the latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll.
http://www.memeorandum.com/080728/p92#a080728p92

1. Who is one of the GOP's poll riggers?

.....(a) USA Today

.....(b) Gallup

.....(c) anthonyC

2. Who promotes GOP-rigged poll?

.....(a) USA Today

.....(b) Gallup

.....(c) anthonyC

oooo

Give up?

The answer to question 1 is Gallup and 2 is anthonyC.

"The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll [GOP-rigged] for Wednesday shows that Barack Obama now attracts 45% of the vote while John McCain earns 43%. When "leaners" are included, it’s Obama 48% and McCain 46%"
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/p..../daily_presidential_tracking_poll

1. Who are two of the GOP's poll riggers?

.....(a) USA Today

.....(b) Gallup

.....(c) anthonyC

.....(d) Rasmussen

oooo

Please, take your time before you answer.

Belail,

So if a pole has McCain ahead it has to be rigged?

Your intelligence still continues to underwhelm me.

I follow both honest Democratic pollsters, some of whom worked the DR presidential, and a number of lying GOP-riggers like Gallup and Rasmusen.

[I don't care for Democratic liars like Penn.]

Both of the GOP-riggers are running daily presidential trackers on Obama and McCain.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/p..../daily_presidential_tracking_poll

http://www.gallup.com/

Of the two major GOP liars I prefer Rasmussen's lies, by far, because Rasmussen lets its GOP bias hang all the way out, whereas Gallup lies are very sneaky and manipulative.

Since US reactionaries often impugn the integrity of Democratic pollsters and I often discuss the race using the findings of the GOP riggers, because I don't want to get bogged down in a "My poll is bigger than yours" comparison.

"So if a pole has McCain ahead it has to be rigged?"

oooo

No, not at all.

I've followed for a long time these GOP-riggers --Gallup and Rasmussen -- in hundreds of races.

In 99% of these races, McCain wasn't a candidate.

p. 1 of 2

Human Events, a top US reactionary paper, writes:

"The usefulness in national polls is in getting rough ideas of a candidate's popularity, and more importantly as a judge of momentum. It is on this latter score that Obama needs to worry. On June 4, Rasmussen Reports released its first daily tracking poll of the general election (3,000 likely voters over three nights, with a margin of error of +/-2%), and it showed Obama 47%, McCain 45%. Fifty-seven days later, the Wednesday, July 30 poll showed Obama at 48% to McCain's 46%—virtually no movement. In the interim, neither candidate has shown movement outside the margin of error."
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=27785

p. 2 of 2

This "margin of error" ground is the premise for McCain's emerging ... or, more correctly, unfolding ... propaganda offensive using doctored polls chiefly by Rasmussen and Gallup.

Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research Inc is widely regarded as the most progressive and professional of Democratic pollsters. Greenberg sometimes polls for the "liberal" bourgeois Party, sometimes the candidate, and sometimes for both. So far, Greenberg and other Democratic pollsters, concentrating on Obama's huge and juicy war chest, haven't done anything to counter the innovative pack of lies that Gallup and Rasmussen are brewing and emitting.

Every major campaign retains private pollsters whose work is intended for internal consumption.

These Obama in-house pollsters also seem useless and too dumbfounded to face the novel GOP-rigged "tracker" strategy.

But it's still early in the race.

On June 25, Obama jumped out in front 15 points of McCain. Gallup and Rasmussen next day either lowered or kept the pre-June 25 Obama lead in their respective polls from 6 to 3 points in a desperate effort to block a breakout of Obama momentum.

"June 25 (Bloomberg) -- Democrat Barack Obama has opened a 15-point lead in the presidential race, and most of the political trends -- voter enthusiasm, views of President George W. Bush, the Republicans, the economy and the direction of the country -- point to even greater trouble for rival John McCain. "http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/new....p;sid=agCTbSDJ83rc&refer=home

Some filthy US reactionaries even hinted that either Bloomberg or LA Times or both were commies on account of the 15-point Obama lead they reported, although everybody, except US reactionary savages and garbage like the Birchers, know that Boomberg and LA Times are cappies.

This is how the McCain, the top GOP liar, intends to deal with future Obama momentum.

You realize that McCain is going to win don't you?

"You realize that McCain is going to win don't you?"

oooo

Not even if McCain survives the skin cancer he suffers from.

Given his unbelievably stupid self-admitted " 3-month biopsy schedule," we shouldn't hear of another surgical operation for cancer before Nov.

The last "biopsy" was a tumor removal, his fourth.

The gops are already trying to decide who will replace him.