Another Unbelieveable Story

Hi Everyone,

We are all so painfully aware of what happens during this time of year. Election time that is. Politicians can be so ruthless to get elected. But so are some of the people who believe in their candidate. Campaigns these days seem to get nastier with each passing year, with no end in sight. The following is a true story of what just happened across the river from where we live....

I read in my Friday's Gannet paper that "a stack of mailers, all anonymous, attacked one particular candidate in the Democratic county executive primary" in Rockland County, New York. A lot of these anonymous flyers that are sent to registered voters, contain either and/or: half-truths, twisted facts, (which is called spin) and even outright lies. But they continue to be sent out. It is truly a sad day when people, knowingly create and mail misleading political flyers to try to sway the voters. It is no wonder that they don't and obviously never will sign their names or name the entity that they are associated with, to these liar flyers. Unbeknownst to me, most states do have regulations that ban such anonymous politicking. But wait........ the worst part is that these liar flyers are actually legally allowed here in New York State. Yep, that's right, as of right now, there is no law in NY to stop these liar flyers! That just gets me so mad and aggravated. It is pure and simple common sense to have a law that prevents that kind of low blow and as dirty as it gets politicking.

Then there is Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski, D-New City. He will introduce legislation that would require campaign communications to disclose the ad's source; whether it's from a candidate or political committee, etc. What a novel idea and what a great common sense solution. My only question is why did it take until the year 2013 for this to start? "Paid for by" labels would inform voters where the flyer came from. That is the way to go to stop these stupid liar flyers. But......... when this comes up for a vote, it will be very interesting to see who doesn't vote for it. Time will tell!


Til next week.

Peter