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George W. Plunkitt – Wikipedia

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George W. Plunkitt – Wikipedia

Plunkitt became wealthy by practicing what he called "honest graft" in politics. He was a cynically honest practitioner of what today is generally known as "machine politics," patronage-based and frank in its exercise of power for personal gain.

In one of his speeches, quoted in Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, he describes the difference between dishonest and honest graft. For dishonest graft, one works solely for one's own interests. For honest graft, one pursues, at the same time, the interests of one's party, state, and person.

He made most of his money through the purchase of land that he knew would be needed for public projects. He would buy such parcels and then resell them at an inflated price. This was honest graft. Dishonest graft, according to Plunkitt, would be buying land and then using influence to have a project built on it.

Plunkitt defended his own actions, saying: "I could get nothin' at a bargain but a big piece of swamp, but I took it fast enough and held on to it. What turned out was just what I counted on. They couldn't make the park complete without Plunkitt's swamp, and they had to pay a good price for it. Anything dishonest in that?

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Yeah for the Third Parties !

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Found my Gadsden Flag in my truck

I was reading about the local elections in Britain and how more and more people are choosing third parties for their local representative. I think it’s exciting to think that alternatives to mainstream parties are being considered more often. I would hope there would be more choices then the Democratic and Republican Parties in America — and alternatives to just fusion voting for the major party candidates.

I know I usually vote third party — in 2016, I voted for Green Party candidate Jill Stein for President and in 2018 I voted for Libertarian Larry Sharpe for Governor. You can say the stakes were rather low in those elections — Andrew Cuomo was destine to beat Marc Molinaro for the Governors race, and the electoral college meant my vote for Jill Stein wasn’t going to change the election for president, with Hillary being the local favorite for deep-blue New York.

I think we need a small government party, one that believes in seriously cutting the size of government, while addressing the serious problems facing our country and our world — namely climate change and deficit spending. I want leaders who support a carbon tax, while cutting taxes and fees on investments and the ordinary commerce of life. I would support ending the tax on long-term capital gains, in favor of a strong carbon tax. I want politicians to represent me that want to cut police and military, to reduce the number of laws needing enforcement, and making life easier for average Amrericans.

New York Board of Elections Cancels Democratic Presidential Primary – The New York Times

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New York Board of Elections Cancels Democratic Presidential Primary – The New York Times

Mr. Kellner said the decision was in keeping with a New York law adopted on April 3 providing that candidates should be removed from ballots if they suspend or terminate their campaigns.

“Obviously the intent of the legislature was not to have a primary election where there is no real contest,” said Mr. Kellner, a Manhattan lawyer who voted in favor of scrapping the primary.

Elections officials had said it cost more than $300,000 for a medium-sized county to hold a primary — an amount that does not include sending pre-stamped absentee ballot applications to voters — estimating that the cost savings of not holding a primary will range in the millions of dollars.

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Federal Trial Set To Begin Over Florida Felon Voting Rights Law : NPR

A contentious federal civil rights trial is slated to begin Monday that will determine whether hundreds of thousands of people with felony convictions will be able to vote this fall in the swing state of Florida.

On one side of the case is Florida, along with a slew of other states supporting it from the sidelines.

On the other, hundreds of thousands of people who have completed their sentences but currently can't vote because of one thing they lack: money.

Trump Promotes Injecting Bleach — Here’s What That Does to Your Body – Rolling Stone

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Trump Promotes Injecting Bleach — Here’s What That Does to Your Body – Rolling Stone

Dr. Peter Chai is an assistant professor in the Emergency Medicine Division of Medical Toxicology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He says that most of the time, when he sees people injecting bleach, it’s usually IV drug users, due to an urban legend that it can clean your blood of impurities after you use heroin and methamphetamine. He says that when people have done this, the side effects are absolutely horrifying.

“Bleach is a caustic agent. It’s the opposite of an acid, because it’s more alkaline. It breaks stuff apart, which is why it works to clean surfaces,” he says. “So when you think about injecting into your veins, it’ll break things apart in your blood.” That usually results in hemolysis, or the red blood cells that carry oxygen in your body breaking apart, so oxygen can’t be carried into your vital organs. This can result in blood clots, liver injury, or most frequently, kidney injury or failure, which could be bad enough that it could be permanent and require dialysis.