False or Erroneous Robocall in Brooklyn

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday November 06, 2012 · 10:56 AM PST

2012/11/06 · 10:56

Has this been noted anywhere? We, in Brooklyn zip 11226, Flatbush-East Flatbush, received a robocall ostensibly from Obama, asking us to vote, with woman's voice following saying polls close at 7:30 p.m. They actually don't close until 9:00. Did anyone else get this? We're in a 90% minority area. Has anyone heard any reporting of it?

State Farm Still Stands Behind ALEC

David in NY

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday April 13, 2012 · 2:03 PM PDT

2012/04/13 · 14:03

I'm going to try to keep this short, so I'll put the punch line up front. State Farm is not budging in its support of ALEC. I think that if you are a policy holder, you should do two things. First, write an e-mail to your agent. Second, call State Farm's complaint line -- 518-884-5346. My agent says they tabulate the complaints they receive, so the complaint line is definitely worth doing. My agent had to call "corporate" to find out the story on this, so complaining to the agent doubtless also causes ripples up the corporate chain.

I now think they're a pretty right-wing outfit (which I did not previously know), so they won't back off without a lot of pressure.

Here are a couple of the e-mails I sent that you can steal from:

David in NY

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Saturday January 23, 2010 · 1:44 PM PST

2010/01/23 · 13:44

For New Yorkers, particularly Brooklynites:

Assemblymember Brennan and Congress Members Yvette Clarke and Anthony Weiner Host Community Forum on the state of National Health Care Legislation

When: Sunday, January 24th from 2:00 to 4:00 pm
Where: MS 51, 350 5th Avenue at 4th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn.

via http://www.balloon-juice.com/...

David in NY

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday August 28, 2008 · 9:17 AM PDT

2008/08/28 · 09:17

On local PBS last night, it was a joy to hear someone tell a brain-dead anchorperson to shut up. Debbie Elliot, one of the more formulaic of the PBS anchors, was interviewing WNYC reporter Bob Henley (pretty sure it was him) after Biden's speech. She recalled Bill Clinton's speech earlier in the evening and grabbed the usual cliche. "Bob," she asked, full of faux seriousness, "do you think that Bill Clinton's speech finally puts the Clinton problem behind the Democrats?" "Not if we keep talking about it, Debbie," Henley responded quietly.

It is surely a joy when, ever so rarely, someone speaks the truth to the mindless talking-heads whom the media inflict upon us.

All Come to Hear America

David in NY

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Saturday November 04, 2006 · 12:36 PM PST

2006/11/04 · 12:36

Cold clear evening, dark, driving north through New York along the border of New England, the AM radio can reach out forever on a night like this, out of Sweeney-Gillibrand country, to Kentucky, Pittsburg, West Virginia, Detoit, Arizona. We listen to America.

Louisville, Kentucky, analyst Al (Cross?) says KY-2, 3, 4 all up for grabs, and heaven forbid, even KY-1, maybe. That part of the state they're old, go back to Roosevelt and Truman, may go back to them again.

[More] Read More

Reflection: I love voting

David in NY

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Saturday October 30, 2004 · 7:04 AM PDT

2004/10/30 · 07:04

I love voting on the old mechanical, lever operated machines they still use in New York, but that are an endangered species. I realized this as I cast my absentee ballot at the Brooklyn Board of Elections Office yesterday. Somehow having to bubble in the oval for the candidates (they must be using optical scan) was not the same.

(... More below the fold.) Read More

RSS

False or Erroneous Robocall in Brooklyn

State Farm Still Stands Behind ALEC

Sunday, Brooklyn: Chance to see Reps. Weiner & Clarke re HCR

Convention Reporter Calls Out Anchor for Mindless Harping on the "Clinton Problem"

All Come to Hear America

Reflection: I love voting