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[hrmjustin]

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[Renew Deal]

1. That's fine with me.

[hrmjustin]

2. Thanks. I thought it should have a host like other state groups do.

[hrmjustin]

3. Kicking.

[rug]

4. You can't be the New York Host unless you're more pushy. Just declare it.

You're so polite people will think you're from Connecticut.

[hrmjustin]

5. oh that gave me a laugh!

[BainsBane]

6. I enjoyed that

[Mosby]

7. congrats hrmjustin on your new hosting position!

[hrmjustin]

8. Thanks Mosby! It should be an easy job. The religion group were I sarted on Monday

is a bit more lively. I just thought that NY should have a host and maybe in some way i can raise the visibility of the group. Hope it works out somehow.
I think I saw you are a host as well in LBN. No rest for the weary with that group and GD.

[Mosby]

9. yeah, I'm a host in LBN

GD is a whole nuther story, I pity those fools, lol.

[hrmjustin]

10. When I saw the hosts room for the first time I said Oh thank God I got it easy.

[TreasonousBastard]

29. That was my first thought, too...

things are so quiet in the Interfaith group where I co-host I kinda forget I'm a host there.

But some others...

Anyway, yeah, it's good to have a host.

[hrmjustin]

30. Thanks my friend!

[MADem]

11. I am not a New Yorker, but I visit there regularly and I check this group often.

I think you will do nicely as the group host.

[hrmjustin]

12. Thanks my friend!

I was made host yesterday. I just felt it needed a hosts. Should be a quiet job.

[MADem]

13. Wonderful! Enjoy! nt

[graham4anything]

14. Congratulations and keep New York positive (including the expected NY President in 2016).

as a host of the Hillary group and an LBN host.
(and one day hopefully the GD)

[hrmjustin]

15. Thanks Graham4anything!

I am a Hillary fan as well.

I hope you post some of your mayoral updates here.

[graham4anything]

16. btw, if you want, I can be a secondary host here.

Though I live in NJ now, I am always a NYer in heart and spirit.

and will do.

What's amazing is NY has four (five if you count Bill Clinton) major national names.

[hrmjustin]

17. Oh you got Christie I am so sorry.

is he half as bad as he looks from this side if the hudson?

[graham4anything]

18. worse. ...

I tried to tell people in town, and everywhere that he is not who he is saying he is
and to hold their noses and vote for Corzine.

He has been a bully from day one.

Though he was great during Sandy, gotta give him 1/2 credit and take away 1/2 because he vetoed the already given federal money for a new North Jersey tunnel/mass transit to the city that would have had thousands of jobs, and it is needed.
Then lo and behold, Sandy came flooded the Hudson tunnel and showed NY/NJ needs a new one, and damn, he had 100% of the funding and because he wanted to impress the tea party, he vetoed it.
That is the real Chris Christie.

It would be interesting if he wins reelection if he was offered and took a job in Hillary's administration opening up the way for a democratic take over of the governorship.

He don't worry me in the President race, he won't be nominated and if he were the VP would not win NY/NJ or any of the blue states so he really has no value presidential wise.

[hrmjustin]

19. He scares the hell out of me.

I think your right about the nomination. He is not crazy enough for the GOP.

[graham4anything]

20. He plays a good game though. And if you meet him on the street, he is very friendly, as long as

long as you don't go negative on him.
He has a big mouth and a nasty temper though.

I do wonder why he originally turned republican in such a nasty way.
Don't want to start analyzing it, but perhaps he was bullied and turned nasty and then used it.
(and I know alot don't agree with me on DU, but as opposed to the NY Mayor who just used the title to win the election but in his personal real life was always a big Mass.then NY liberal(yes I know people here don't agree now, but I have known him for 50 years now, and yes, his job as mayor causes him to do things people don't agree with, but he is 100x better than Rudy ever was in all ways.)

I am a big John V. Lindsay fan from the 60s/70s.

[hrmjustin]

21. Please remember to cross post your postings on the mayors race here as well.

I like reading them.

[graham4anything]

22. I will place them in both. Starting with the long Village Voice article on Quinn

though the 4 paragraph rule makes a long article like that hard

It will be an interesting race made more interesting if Weiner does get in.

and while he is not at this point running Ray Kelly would be a formidable force for the republicans if he got the nomination.(especially with ex-police chief Bill Bratton, who has ties to NY/Mass/California saying he wants to come back as the police chief.)

The ones who can't stand Bloomberg are going to need to find a new person to blame next January.(though most of them are pro-gun people who don't like him for obvious reasons).

[hrmjustin]

23. My problems with Bloomberg has to do with snow removal a few years ago.

I think he will be known as one of our better mayors but I also have to say I never voted for him.

I hope Weiner gets in the race. I am not a fan of Quinn because she seems so political. I will vote for her if she gets the nomination, but I always like the congressman.

[graham4anything]

24. I never would have voted for him either, as I only vote for democratic candidates.

Yeah, snow has always been a problem.

The other problem wiht unions is a direct result of the negative press after he was mayor, that John Lindsay got, getting blamed for giving too much to unions.

So the press made it impossible for anyone else to ever again be like John Lindsay.(who like the others all had snow problems.)

Now of course, there are more bad storms than ever, so the problem keeps existing.

What is hard in NYC (that I only noticed after moving to NJ) was that there is no place when it snows for cars to move to. In NJ, most people have driveways and there are laws state NO cars in street, so the plows come through, clearing everything.

as you know, streets in NYC are small, and with cars parked on both sides, there is no room to remove any snow.

[hrmjustin]

25. The storm I am talking about is dec 26 2010.

Nothing got plowed in the outer boroughs. It took 4 days for Bay Ridge to get plowed. He had the nerve to show up at a bar the next day down the block from me. people gave him a talking to.

[Smarmie Doofus]

26. Kick . Good luck. Seems to me it's been dead for a long time.

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I'll drop by now and then to see what's happening.

[hrmjustin]

27. I figured the Great State of NY had to have a host.

I started to post some things in here and I hope others do as well. Hope to see you in here my friend!

[Smarmie Doofus]

28. Might be smart to begin w. a roll call.

To see who's out there. We did that in the "old" days.

edit: Or repost this OP to GD and beep it kicked for a while. That way more people will know it's re-opened for business.

[hrmjustin]

31. I am going to delete this now and thank you all for your good wishes.