NextGenDems

Newellawitz Meets A New Pal

Seems as though our favorite suspicious mind running for public office now sees us lurking behind each and every talking tree in Oz. And the simple answer for you, Paul, is: WE ARE BEHIND EACH AND EVERY TALKING TREE IN OZ. SO BEWARE, WE (THE ROCKEFELLERS), ARE COMIN' TO GET YOU (AND EVAN, TOO)!

At any rate, there's a new blogger in town who's pissed off at Newell for not answering his email.  This new guy, Carl Blinker, is so mad at Newellawitz that he started his own blog to get his Newell emails made public. There's a whole string of interesting back and forths between Newell and new blogger that start up here.  But it was this response from Newell that appears to have really set him off:

Carl,

I did not receive your previous email, nor did anyone on my staff.

1.  I do not fund TAP.

2.  If you have questions about TAP and its writers, I encourage you to address them directly.  Unlike the anonymous, closed door approach of NGD, you can do so directly on their site.

3.  To suggest that criticizing McCain is criticizing all veterans is the height of absurdity.  Are all criticisms of Obama racist? NextGenDems often criticizes me, does that make them anti-Semitic? John McCain’s platform would be a disaster for this country.  His admirable service in Vietnam does not change that.

4.  I cannot “add questions” to NextGenDems as you suggest.  It is not permitted on the site.  NGD is a platform for one writer to express his or her opinions.  That is fine.  But please do not consider it a news source or even a political blog.

Now I have questions for you.

1.  Are you the writer of NGD?

2.  If so, why have you not answered my emails or my campaign manager’s emails?

3.  Are you employed by the State of New York?

(Evidentially, the new blogger doesn't even ask question number 4.)

Yes, folks, it's true, Paulack Newellbama harbors a profound and unhealthy preoccupation with NGD. (And who knows, maybe state workers, too.)

In today's other news from the freak show fronting as a primary challenge to Sheldon Silver, Luke Henry, in an attempt to dispel the Newell charge that he's a Silver plant, dresses up like Luke Skywalker pining to go into battle with Darth Vader (Silver), whom as Liz Benjamin correctly points out, was Luke Skywalker's skypappy.  Good work, Luke.  Maybe you should hire some of those oppo researchers that are stalking Obamatwitz.

So basically you've got one guy running around Lower Manhattan pitching himself as Luke Skywalker and another as a composite called "Obamawitz," both engaged in a pitched battle for name recognition so that they can reform dysfunctional New York.

Darwin's Immutable Law

Somehow, I don't think these people will get here.

Low Ball Throws Screw Ball

From today's Journal News:

A lawyer has sent a letter to Assemblyman Greg Ball demanding that Ball reprint and republish a political mailer and advertisement that features a photograph of his client wrongly captioned as John Degnan, Ball's Republican opponent.

The photograph actually shows Peter Hansen of Patterson, who is the Brewster village clerk and a frequent critic of Ball's. The letter, written by attorney Christopher Maher of Carmel, was sent out last week to the assemblyman.

Interlocking Fields of Fire

In military parlance this (very roughly) describes a "kill zone" from which there is no escape for the enemy due to strategically positioned fields of fire.  The corollary of course, is that each unit or sector composing the interlocking field of fire could be perfectly positioned to "kill zone" the other.

Fred Dicker of the NY Post writes:

GOV. PATERSON will demand that Public Integrity Commission Chairman Herbert Teitelbaum be fired if the explosive allegation that he covered up former Gov. Spitzer's key role in the Dirty Tricks Scandal is true, The Post has learned.

The controversial Teitelbaum was accused by ex-top Spitzer aide Darren Dopp of intentionally steering the commission's still-ongoing probe away from Spitzer.

Dopp, the former governor's communications director, was suspended for 30 days nearly a year ago and rebuked for his role in the scandal.

Dopp, breaking months of silence, said last week that Teitelbaum "didn't want to hear" about Spitzer's involvement in the plot when he testified before the commission last fall.

"When I mentioned the governor, Mr. Teitelbaum was incredulous," Dopp told The New York Times. "He didn't want to hear about it. He would change the topic whenever the governor's name came up," he continued.

In other words, it's a circular firing squad.

Huh?

I thought partisanship is like crack. But this is a guy who flies his private jet to places like Indonesia for global warming confabbing.

Two sets of rules!

I'm such a dumbass.

More on NYPA

Ya know, the thing of it is, is that Darrel Aubertine is exactly the kind of guy needed to purge the Power Authority of Pataki/Spitzer holdovers like Danny Wiese, and get it back on mission.

The Syracuse PS writes today:

Only two people know for sure whether Sen. Darrel Aubertine was offered a job at the New York Power Authority: Aubertine and Charles O'Byrne, Gov. David Paterson's top aide.

O'Byrne telephoned Aubertine and then met with him in person June 17 on the second floor of the Capitol, where Paterson and his staff have offices, according to sources.

Aubertine, D-Cape Vincent, said in a press release June 21 that he had been offered the position and had declined it, opting instead to continue representing the 48th Senate District.

As for the liar's poker aspect of the thing, we agree with Bill Magnarelli, and will leave it at that:

"Darrel Aubertine is the straightest, nicest, most gentlemanly man I've ever been associated with in the Assembly," Assemblyman Bill Magnarelli, D-Syracuse, said Thursday. "He's a very honest man, and I see no rational reason for him to say what he did without a reason."

"But I'll say the same for the governor," Magnarelli continued. "I'm sure that both of them believe every word they said, but somewhere, there must have been a disconnect."

I Saw The Title

...of this Daily News piece on George Pataki getting bumped off the GOP convention list and thought perhaps, just perhaps, the GOP was distancing itself from the former kleptocract in chief.  It didn't and wasn't.  It was the result of some score-settling.