Please read the BLOG and hyperlinks below, it is becoming real disgusting of what has become of our political party system.

It seems that the Bronx Republicans are pretty much lost when it comes to having a credible county organization. Under the current leadership of Joseph J. Savino, we have found many current members of Bronx County GOP tainted with criminality. What is Mr. Savino running in the Bronx, a political club or a halfway house of criminality and corruption. Please read all hyperlinked websites below:

2007 - 2009 Current elected officials for Bronx County GOP:

http://www.gograssroots.org/downloads/newvoices/BronxRepDL.pdf

Fred Brown - 77th A.D. Current 2007-2009 Male State Committee member:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DEED81131F930A15754C0A96F948260

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE6DD1530F93AA15755C0A96F948260&sec=&pagewanted=2

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0717FD3A5F0C708DDDA10894D1484D81

http://www.nycsci.org/reports/12-93%20CSB%20ELECTS%20RPT.pdf

Curtis Johnson - 79th A.D. Current 2007-2009 Male State Committee member:  read more »

PRESIDENTIAL REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE RUDY GIULIANI'S BRONX, NEW YORK DELEGATES

Presidential candidate hopeful Rudy Giuliani has a cast of characters as his delegates in New York. Just take a look at the Bronx County Republican Delegates for Rudy Giuliani.

Congressional District 7
Joseph J. Savino Jr., delegate and Bronx County GOP Leader: Joseph Savino can be challenged on his residency as a delegate, he moved back to Rockland County.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/nyregion/02bronx.html?ex=1330491600&en...

http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/runninscared/archives/002001.php

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0426,robbins2,54687,5.html

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10222006/news/columnists/gas_guzzler_hosp_ra...

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03022007/news/regionalnews/election_money_mi...

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03012007/news/regionalnews/board_of_elex_rai...  read more »

Ben Smith at Politico.com has a blockbuster now. Go right now and read his current post. Smith's follow up has Giuliani denials and statements that payments were not improper. But check updates after the jump.

There, Smith shows how then Mayor Rudolph Giuliani billed obscure NYC agencies for trips to -- what to me appears to be -- Long Island overnights with then-lover wife-number-three-to-be Judith Nathan. The tricky way in which the billing was carried out and the fact that Mayor G. had no NYC business to carry out in Southampton, suggest to me that Mr Giuliani used public resources for private purposes. Did that happen in this case?

Smith's done some remarkable reporting. NY Times' William Rashbaum's story, here, points out that security expenses are routinely billed through NYPD and that Mr. Giuliani would not personally have handled the billing. (There are reasons for thinking this may not be the case. Many report Mr. Giuliani tried to completely control of both NYPD and his personal affairs. The billing here concerned both.) If normal procedures were followed, did NYPD also get bills for these trips? Talk Left's Post is here. Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch, quoted by Sam Stein on HuffPost says the Giuliani billing was "improper."  read more »

No! I don't mean NYCHA is not broke but ...New York City’s Housing Authority (NYCHA) has been and is being mugged and robbed by Federal, State and City Republicans. NYCHA operates more than 2600 buildings with more than 180,000 apartments and many more than 400,000 residents. (It does a lot more, but for purposes of this post and the next, I focus only on its role as housing operator) As a result of planned policies federal, state and local subsidies for NYCHA have declined dramatically over the Bush, Pataki, Giuliani and Bloomberg years. As a result, cash for routine maintenance is drained away, fees and rents have increased and surprisingly, NYC continues, vampire-like, to suck hundreds of millions of dollars a year from NYCHA. (See the figures after the jump)

NYCHA’s GOP government-induced financial crisis was the subject of a fascinating forum a few days ago at the New School's Center for NYC Affairs. There Daily News columnist and editorial board member and former NYCHA resident Errol Lewis convened a panel of experts and officials and an audience of alarmed tenants and activists. The tales they told, the problems they debated and recent developments point to a NYCHA crisis which could, if not addressed, severely damage the largest single bloc of affordable housing in NYC – some of it imposed by Mayor Bloomberg right this minute.(Check out the forum here)  read more »

Susan Milligan of the Boston Globe reports on the danger that Rudy Giuliani's candidacy will end up being defined by a single issue (9/11, of course) and why such an approach could falter down the road, as voters ask for something more -- for instance, an Iraq war policy.

Particular credit to Milligan for mentioning the fact that here in New York there are a lot of people who consider his claim to 9/11 heroism totally fraudulent. The article actually features a nice juxtaposition, citing out-of-state sentiments like this:

"He took control," said Carolyn Mercadante , 70, a Delaware voter who came to see Giuliani speak. "Just the fact that he was such a presence there" in New York the day of the attacks, said 67-year-old Bill Uranko of Middleton, Del., when asked to explain what impressed him about Giuliani's Sept.11 performance. "You could see he was visibly moved by what happened.

...and contrasting them with the far different things you'll hear from New Yorkers, for instance:  read more »