At the conclusion of their Baltimore national conference, the American Catholic Bishops announced they adopted “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship,” a statement of principles to guide Catholic voters in the 2008 presidential election.
No doubt Rudy Giuliani supporters are combing the document for loopholes that can be used to convince practicing Catholics that it’s okay to vote for “fellow Catholic” Giuliani despite his pro-abortion stand. Read the rest of this post »
Rudy Giuliani: Life Long Liberal, a forty-two page white paper, is now available on this blog. It can be reviewed with this link, Giuliani-Life-Long-Liberal, as well as under the heading of Giuliani: Life Long Liberal on the streetcornerconservative.com home page.
In Rudy Giuliani: Life Long Liberal, Rudy’s own words, news reports and commentary from both the left and right are utilized to prove that contrary to what we’ve been hearing and reading, Rudy Giuliani is what he has always been — a liberal. It is streetcornerconservative.com’s hope that after reviewing the subject matter in the white paper, conservatives will take stories of Giuliani’s Damascus Road-like conversion with a grain of salt.
Republican Michael Balboni believed a stint in the Spitzer Administration as Homeland Security Deputy Secretary would enhance his image as an anti-terrorist expert and enable him to rake in the dollars as a security consultant in his next life.
Recent events, however, had to deflate Balboni’s future financial expectations. Read the rest of this post »
Governor Spitzer continues his upstate public relations campaign, “Operation Strategic Investment.”
Frankly, Spitzer’s plans are not very strategic nor much of an investment. Over ninety percent of the $850 million in disbursements are redecorated bribes allocated during Pataki’s last term of office.
Payoffs to existing employers and contractors, in the form of state grants, will not revitalize upstate New York’s ailing economy. People have been fleeing the area because they can’t afford the annual property tax bill – 80% of which is dedicated to financing unfunded state mandates. Before entrepreneurs relocate to the area and invest capital, the local tax systems must be fixed.
Here’s a breakdown of the tax burden of upstate townships and cities versus New York’s most affluent and populated municipal sub-division, the town of North Hempstead. Read the rest of this post »
To get the media’s focus off the scandals plaguing his administration, Governor Spitzer unveiled an $850 million economic development plan he claims will revitalize Western New York’s largest ailing cities, Buffalo and Niagara Falls.
Spitzer’s “strategic investment” scheme, which includes the construction of housing, malls and a 200 thousand square-foot sporting goods store, is not going to turn around Western New York’s economy or stop the population decline.
Over 1 million people have fled upstate New York in this century because runaway taxes have wrecked their local economies, not because they lacked housing or shopping centers. Read the rest of this post »
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