Room Eight - New York Politics

• In Thompson's defeat, seeds of future victory

  It would be a mistake to classify Bloomberg's November 4 mayoral reelection win as anything but a defeat for the working people of New York City. At the same time, however, there is no reason to despair; on the contrary the election results represent a basis for optimism moving forward.

  First, [...]

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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 3:34pm EST
  by Dan Margolis -- NY State Communist Party

• Stealth Campaign

  Now it can be told.

  Last year, I used my Election Day vacation in an effort to help make Malcolm Smith the State Senate Majority Leader;

  Having seen how that worked out, this year I used my day off to take care of my sick son Dybbuk and his new [...]

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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 10:38am EST
  by Gatemouth

• "Health Care Reform Is Happening Anyway.”

  I can’t find the quote, but I remember a health care executive saying it after cost cutting followed anyway in the wake of the health care reform defeat under Clinton. The health care industry, including the Greater New York Hospital Association and Local 1199, worked to defeat reform. The industry, [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:40am EST
  by Larry Littlefield