The Politicker NY has some good stuff posted today.  Check out the site when you get a chance, but I just had to move this amazing demonstration of what is WRONG with politics in NY...

It was great theater as the Democrats stuck their thumb in the Republicans’ eye by holding a press conference outside GOP headquarters in Westbury to announce that a former leader of the Young Republicans of Nassau, Nina Petraro Bastardi, was running for the Nassau County Legislature as a Democrat.

GOP chairman Joseph Mondello opted for a show of force instead of gimmickry, and about 100 GOP stalwarts turned out to give Petraro and her Democratic supporters a loud, sometimes profane greeting.

When Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi started to list Petraro’s accomplishment as summa cum laude at St. John’s, one heckler yelled, “she’s dumb as a rock.”

Honestly, I think they are all "dumb as a Rock" and everyone involved here proved that to be the case...

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written by Jay Golub , May 22, 2009

as if we needed another reason to ask for Mondello to peacefully step aside, here's his direct quote on this matter from the above Newsday story...

Mondello called the stunt “sophomoric,” and had this to say: “They think they can come with impunity into our house and cause trouble. They can’t walk all over us... We’d never pull that kinds of stunt. They come to us, they’re going to have to take their risks. They got what they deserved today. They tried to make light of what we stand for in the Republican Party, and we gave it back to them.”

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written by Daniel Peterson , May 22, 2009

When I saw this, I felt embarrassed to be Republican. How can we be a party of issues when too many of us are the party of being spoil sports.

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written by Quickjustice , May 22, 2009

More to the point, who is the GOP going to run against her? Kicking ass in the election would be far more effective. Is the Nassau GOP capable of that?

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written by Jay Golub , May 22, 2009

I think their leadership, if this is what they want to call "leadership," is proving this is the best shot they got....

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