NYPD RMP Says VOTE NO !!

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In NYC Patrol Cars Urge ‘No’ Vote on ConCon
By Rick Karlin, Capitol bureau on October 12, 2017

There’s been a flurry of stories about how (mostly) public sector unions which oppose a Constitutional Convention are handily out spending those who are calling for approval.

Now comes word from an organization supporting the ConCon that police cars in New York City are sporting bumper stickers urging a “No” vote.

Actually, it’s more than word, as the New York Says Yes Coalition has photos of patrol vehicles in the Bronx and Brooklyn with such stickers.

New York Police Department patrol cars illegally sporting “Vote No” campaign bumper stickers have been spotted around New York City, specifically in the Bronx and the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn. Supporters of the Constitutional Convention ballot question complained to city officials weeks ago about this blatant violation of City law, and yet City officials and the NYPD have failed to address this serious electioneering abuse.

Evan Davis, Manager of the Committee for a Constitutional Convention, said, “Using government resources in this way is totally illegal. It’s disappointing to see the NYPD, which is charged with upholding the law, breaking it.”

Bertha Lewis, President of The Black Institute, added, “The NYPD has a long history of skirting the law to intimidate Black and Brown communities in New York. This is nothing new. But doing it over the Constitutional Convention shows me that they’re scared we might actually get a real seat at the table. Polls show the people support a Constitutional Convention, and in my community especially, excitement is growing. We will not be silenced. We will not be intimidated. Especially by this language about taxes, which is so obviously meant to be a dog whistle.”

Al Benninghoff, Campaign Manager for the New York Says Yes coalition in favor of a Constitutional Convention, said, “This is a political move straight out of the Tammany Hall playbook. Should we really be surprised that the most corrupt legislature in the country is using taxpayer resources to strong-arm the public into voting the way the political bosses want? The people of New York have a chance to change it by voting YES on Nov 7.”

The claims made on the bumper sticker are patently false. The cost of the Convention in 1967 was $7.5M and didn’t result in any noticeable tax increases. In fact, estimates show it could save almost a billion dollars annually.

The New York Says Yes coalition calls upon Mayor de Blasio to order all city workers to stop this illegal practice. It also demands that the NYPD address this violation of election law immediately.


they’re scared we might actually get a real seat at the table.

Hey Luv, do you have room for them at your diningroom table? Lol

[luvinretrmnt]

Just more ngr nonsense...a bunch of welfare assholes that dont pay taxes...now lets talk about using tax payers money for political means...the property and income taxes we all pay go to maintain and pay for ALL public land that all the jerkoff politicians put their millions of campaign signs on the sides of every damn road in the state...so the NYPD PBA should prosecute ALL the politicians that have signs anyplace but PRIVATE property...now is it against the law for a tax payer to remove these garbage signs from polluting our roadways? I think not and would urge all to clean them up now...thats probably why no mention of discipline against the cops was mentioned and none should be taken...whats good for the goose is good for the gander.
And NO room at my table for those savages...let them go to deblowsios table, he's already got more than a few million on the feed bag...to vote for him...lets see how the voting machines are rigged to turn a NO vote to a YES vote...and where the hell is the republican candidate for governor? WTF...the republicans rolled over and died, or are they are all fvcking turn coats like manclowno who supported a dem instead of his own party? just more proof of corruption.

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The Black Institute.......................HAHAHAHJAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Animals.

[tywebb]

Seat at the table? More of our taxes go upstate then are corruptly fed down to the 5 Boroughs. Sounds like they are at the head of the table...

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OPINIONCOMMENTARY
By Jerry Kremer
No need to open up NY’s constitution
Empire State already has a working system to amend its guiding document.

Updated October 30, 2017 6:04 AM


New York State voters need many things to improve their quality of life. They want better-paying jobs, affordable housing to keep our young talent from fleeing to other states, better roads to keep us safe and solutions to other critical needs.

What New Yorkers do not need, however, is a constitutional convention.

A Nov. 7 ballot would start in motion the calling of a constitutional convention in 2019. Ballot amendments normally don’t get much attention, which is why this year voters should turn over their ballots and cast a no vote on a constitutional convention. Besides being costly, voters should know that the last thing the state needs is another political gathering that would look like a copy of a state legislative session.

There are two major ways to change our state constitution. One is by a required vote every 20 years to decide whether to call for such a meeting. The second is for the State Legislature to pass ballot amendments, which voters cast votes on. There have been only two successful constitutional conventions since 1894, and both were called when the nation was in crisis. There might be a lot of political angst today about how our leaders are dropping the ball, but there is no legitimate reason for a state convention in the next two years.

New York’s constitution is a pretty good document. It protects the right to privacy, bars discrimination, preserves the environment, supports a series of worker protections and ensures help for the needy through medical care, homelessness and educational opportunity.

Somehow well-meaning convention supporters think that in four months, a 200-page document will create a new New York, free from crime, corruption, dirty air, complex laws and burdensome taxes.

The system works! In the past 200 years, voters have amended the state constitution more than 200 times. All of those changes were made at the suggestion of the legislature.

The last vote on a convention for our state took place in 1997, and it was soundly defeated. At the time of that defeat, respected groups that would have favored holding a convention urged its defeat and suggested that the pro groups begin a 20-year campaign to create a real agenda so that future voters would have a choice of whether to vote up or down. Twenty years later, there has been no real educational campaign, just random calls for reform by the “yes” side.

In 1967, I was a member of the Assembly and attended the 1967 convention as an observer. I saw what a fruitless effort it was to get the leaders of the convention to do anything other than protect the status quo. But don’t take my word for it. The groups opposing a convention this year are about as diverse as you could imagine. The long list of opponents, to name a few, includes the Conservative Party, the right-to-life movement, Planned Parenthood, civil liberties unions, the Sierra Club, every major union and the Adirondack Council.

There are also plenty of other reasons why a convention will not be free of politics. A person who wants to run as an independent delegate needs 3,000 signatures to get on the ballot, which means that a lot more are needed to stand up to any challenge. If you run as a major party candidate, you need only 1,000 signatures. That means any candidate backed by a political party is heavily favored to win.


There is no doubt that our political climate is toxic. That is no reason to accept a bundle of vague political promises by supporters with a real risk that the outcome won’t be a disaster.

Jerry Kremer is a former State Assembly member and is the co-author of “Patronage, Waste and Favoritism: A Dark History of Constitutional Conventions.”

www.newsday.com/opinion/commentary/no-need-to-open-up-ny-s-constitution-1.14652532

[luvinretrmnt]

douche bag scuomo has made this a racial issue by spreading through the minority areas this is how you can get even with whitey, since most of his voters in NYC and the boros are welfare recipients and scam the system and dont pay any taxes they could care less about the corrupt politicians or anything else other than gives me the money, so by making it seem they can get even with the po po and any one else that gets a pension is his angle..and then amending it to take pensions that probably wont happen to any corrupt politician as they ALL are , but would trickle down to taking pensions from any public worker that they can make up some charges on to save paying out an earned pension to, any doubts just look at the fvcking circus with silver and skelos..arrested, tried and convicted only to be let free by one of the paid off judges and I doubt they will be convicted again , they will claim all kinds of stuff, just look at manclowno and co, they are claiming the democraps set them up even though he was a scuomo supporter and crossed party lines.. I shoulda went into politics and fvcked everyone and made millions, hey there is still time for that, or change my name to jose gonzolez and start collecting all the entitlements the illegals get...