Grondahl: Butler to six governors, Robert Bennett was discreet to the end – Times Union
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Democrats recruit speakers to testify against fusion voting
ALBANY — Democrats are actively recruiting people to attend the Public Finance Reform Commission’s meeting in Albany on Wednesday to speak out against fusion voting. An email from Albany County Democratic Chair Jack Flynn sent to ward leaders on Monday noted that state Democratic chairman Jay Jacobs would be in Albany for a meeting of the commission, on which he serves.
I like fusion voting, because it gives me an opportunity to vote on alternative party lines, for mainline candidates. It kind of is one of those particular political oddities that kind of make a New York unique and fun political environment.
NPR
Veteran journalist Cokie Roberts, who joined an upstart NPR in 1978 and left an indelible imprint on the growing network with her coverage of Washington politics before later going to ABC News, has died. She was 75. Roberts died Tuesday due to complications from breast cancer, according to a family statement.
Don’t listen, don’t really care
I don’t have a television at home nor do I have internet beyond what I can do on my phone. It’s just too distracting and obnoxious and I like the walk to the library.
I find myself even listening to the radio less and less as all it is about these days is pushing gun control and banning plastic straws. Hardly relevant to my life.
Maybe I’m just hiding from the pain of modern living by watching videos about farming and off-grid living but I don’t know, so much of modern life is based on what the politicians think will score them points than reality.
Maybe I’m a luddite, but I actually enjoy technology that makes life easier and better rather than the horrors that contemporary media and news brings into one’s home.
Beto O’rourke
Beto O’Rourke is a bigot.
How a Failed Trump Golf Course Became a Dilapidated State Park | Time
When Donald Trump bought 436 acres in upstate New York two decades ago, he envisioned adding two new championship golf courses to his collection.
He bought the wet, overgrown, tree-tangled parcels that sit miles off a state parkway beginning in 1998 for less than the current price of a two-bedroom condo in Trump Tower.
But local leaders nixed the golf-course plans and his subsequent efforts to sell it to a homebuilding company faltered. So he gave it away.