Meet Joe and Mayor Bloomberg Tomorrow, 7:45 am, Stamford Train Station

MAYOR BLOOMBERG GO HOME - STAY OUT OF CT POLITICS (0.00 / 0)

is what my sign would say.

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by: greenpeas @ Sun Oct 29, 2006 at 16:44:00 PM CST

Reading Material... (0.00 / 0)

...is a nice gift for any commuter!  Seems to me the New York Times endorsement of NED LAMONT for SENATE would make a nice hand-out to read on the train.  Timely, too!
No surprise that Joe has accepted help from the master of BUYING elected office, Mr. Bloomberg.

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by: TC @ Sun Oct 29, 2006 at 18:10:15 PM CST

And don't forget the 30-year-old trains (0.00 / 0)

Don't forget to remind the Connecticut commuters that while they're squeezing into 30-year-old, cramped smelly railcars, Westchester residents will be breezing into the city on brand new trains.

It might be a good idea to pass out Ned's position statement on infrastructure:

"I’d propose a serious, long-range infrastructure plan to upgrade our schools, public transportation, highways, our sewage treatment, and our levees in below sea-level areas. ... Rather than the pork-ridden omnibus transportation bill, which featured more than 6,000 earmarks for favored congressmen, I would work for a transportation strategy which interconnects cities and suburbs, inner cities and jobs and affordable housing, and ports and airports. This is a pre-requisite if Connecticut and the United States are to compete and prosper in the 21st century."

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by: CaptCT @ Sun Oct 29, 2006 at 18:22:07 PM CST

Iraq, Iraq, Iraq (0.00 / 0)

I'd ask Mayor Bloomberg if he stands by the findings of the Bloomberg School of Public Health on mortality in Iraq:

"As many as 654,965 more Iraqis may have died since hostilities began in Iraq in March 2003 than would have been expected under pre-war conditions, according to a survey conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Al Mustansiriya University in Baghdad. The deaths from all causes—violent and non-violent—are over and above the estimated 143,000 deaths per year that occurred from all causes prior to the March 2003 invasion.
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“As we found with our previous survey, the majority of deaths in Iraq are due to violence—although we also saw a small increase in deaths from non-violent causes, such as heart disease, cancer and chronic illness. Gunshots were the primary cause of violent deaths. To put these numbers in context, deaths are occurring in Iraq now at a rate more than three times that from before the invasion of March 2003,” said Gilbert Burnham, MD, PhD, lead author of the study and co-director of the Bloomberg School’s Center for Refugee and Disaster Response. “Our total estimate is much higher than other mortality estimates because we used a population-based, active method for collecting mortality information rather than passive methods that depend on counting bodies or tabulated media reports of violent deaths. Though the numbers differ, the trend in increasing numbers of deaths closely follows that measured by the U.S. Defense Department and the Iraq Body Count group.”"

http://www.jhsph.edu...

Does Mayor Bloomberg agree with President Bush said of the Bloomberg School of Public Health study "I don't consider it a credible report...the methodology was pretty well discredited."?

Does Sen. Lieberman agree with President Bush that the "methodology was pretty well discredited"? If so, why does the CDC list 242 instances of cluster sampling, included a 9 part tutorial on how to use 'cluster sampling' in research?

http://www.cdc.gov/d...

Are Mayor Bloomberg and Sen. Lieberman men of science? If so, why do they dispute a peer-reviewed study that reports with 95% confidence that from 392,000-942,000 additional deaths have occured in Iraq BEYOND Saddam-era mortality rates. The most likely figure is about 650,000 additional deaths.

Yes or No, does Mayor Bloomberg accept the findings of the School of Public Health that bears his own name? Does Sen. Lieberman?

BACKGROUND:
JHBSPH/Lancet Iraq mortality study:
http://www.thelancet...

Explanation of Methodology:
http://scienceblogs....

Johns Hopkins renames School of Public Health after $125M donor Bloomberg:
http://www.jhu.edu/n...

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by: joejoejoe @ Sun Oct 29, 2006 at 18:28:44 PM CST

Bushman may be coming (0.00 / 0)

Rumor has it that Bushman's favorite Senator, the no integrity, senator for sale, lobbyists best friend, and Rovian Slush funder himself Joe Lieberman, Bushman's favorite Senator, will be greeting people at the Stamford train station tomorrow cheering on his favorite candidate Joe Lieberman.

Bushman has lost 15 pounds since his last visit to his favorite Senator so you can check out the new, improved, and slimming down version of Bushman.

Bushman believes that war is profitable, that lobbyists and not people should be making important decisions for the people of CT, that the special interests trump the grassroots interests, and that you little middle class people should be paying higher commuter taxes so people like myself and JOe Lieberman can have another tax cut.


Joe Lieberman and George Bush believe that our govt should cut and run on capturing Osama Bin Laden so that Bush and the neocons could invade Iraq. Despite no Wmds and no links to 9/11, Lieberman supports that decision.

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by: bigdavefromqueens @ Sun Oct 29, 2006 at 18:29:49 PM CST

Here's a Dressed Up Version... (4.00 / 3)

...if it helps.

Download: http://bigpath.net/m...

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by: Mercury_Rising @ Sun Oct 29, 2006 at 19:52:21 PM CST

WOW!! (4.00 / 1)

Many, many thanks!

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by: BranfordBoy @ Sun Oct 29, 2006 at 20:18:44 PM CST

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Do these need a "paid for by" line? (0.00 / 0)

What are the election law requirements for these flyers? 

Do they need a "paid for by" line, or an "approved by" (or "Not approved by") line? 

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by: Roy_Hinkley @ Sun Oct 29, 2006 at 21:21:48 PM CST

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If you'd look (0.00 / 0)

there is one.

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by: ATalbot @ Sun Oct 29, 2006 at 21:33:50 PM CST

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The first one didn't have it (0.00 / 0)

I printed a bunch of the first one before the second one was available. 

I'm wondering if they can still be used. 

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by: Roy_Hinkley @ Sun Oct 29, 2006 at 21:54:26 PM CST

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If you printed them YOU paid for them (0.00 / 0)

You can write that in or just skip it

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by: Jon Kantrowitz @ Mon Oct 30, 2006 at 06:41:17 AM CST

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Thanks but too late. (0.00 / 0)

I'd have needed to leave an hour before your post to get there in time to hand them out.

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by: Roy_Hinkley @ Mon Oct 30, 2006 at 09:06:50 AM CST

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How did it go? (0.00 / 0)

I just need to confirm that Mike showed up so I can fire off my outraged LTTE to every local paper from Greenwich to Bridgeport.

Campaigning with a guy who wants to raise your taxes and provide you no additional services?

BRILLIANT!

It's Morning in America. Too bad Reagan's not here to see it. - Me

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by: roguetrader2000 @ Mon Oct 30, 2006 at 09:29:08 AM CST

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Great work! Here's another one.. (0.00 / 0)

I would love it if a flyer could be produced to the effect of:

Mayor Bloomberg, Senator Lieberman is having trouble with some basic business vocabulary:  Layoffs vs selloffs, and income vs salary.  He's got these wrong in his advertising, and would be fired from Bloomberg, Inc. if he did it there.  Please ask Senator Lieberman to pull these ads, as it is embarrassing to you.

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by: drowsy @ Sun Oct 29, 2006 at 21:14:30 PM CST

Joe admits his failure to keep CT commuters safe (0.00 / 0)

From Joe's office September 29, 2006

http://lieberman.sen...

As his own press release shows, if Al Qaeda comes back they may well do it on rail mass transit. As Joe says:

The terrorist attacks on rail and transit systems in Spain, London, and Mumbai should be enough evidence to convince the Republican-led Congress that U.S. rails are dangerously vulnerable.

Might they strike in Stamford? Well let's see what Joe's office says:

In Connecticut, the Metro North New Haven line is one of the busiest rail lines in the United States, carrying about 110,000 riders each day. The Stamford train station on that line is among the busiest city rail stations in the United States.

Joe had put funding for mass transit in his big Port Security bill.  He used all his bipartisan connections, cashed in all the chits he's built up supporting Repubican policies for the last six years. And what happened?

The Senate-passed version of the Port Security Improvement Act of 2006, which Lieberman co-sponsored, specifically contained a $4.5 billion authorization to protect the nation’s mass transit and freight and passenger rail lines, a particular concern in Connecticut. That funding has been removed from the version of the bill that emerged from House and Senate negotiations on a final bill.

Senator Lieberman had planned to offer an amendment that would have added $400 million for rail security and $400 million for transit, and but the conference committee never provided an opportunity for amendments to be offered."

He got the same GOP smackdown that Hilary Clinton or Ted Kennedy would have gotten. He must have been really pissed off.

Fast forward to October 20, 2006

http://lieberman.sen...

Joe and his pal Susan Collins (R-Me) are in New London, crowing over the Bush signed Port Security Bill that they co-sponsored.  Joe must still be steamed about how he got screwed, right?

“Senator Collins and I have worked together on port security legislation since 2004, because we both know that port security is the key to protecting not just our physical safety but our economic security as well,” Lieberman said.

“This is the kind of progress we can make on crucial national challenges when we put the safety and welfare of our nation ahead of party politics and partisan bickering,” Lieberman said.

Guess he got over it huh? He also accepted Sen. Collins endorsement on that day in New London.

That's how bipartisanship works for Joe Lieberman. The Republicans get their way, Joe looks good and gets endorsements and the people of Connecticut get the shaft.

It's Morning in America. Too bad Reagan's not here to see it. - Me

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by: roguetrader2000 @ Sun Oct 29, 2006 at 21:23:23 PM CST