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		<title>Chairing the Committee on Correction: Prisons and Jails</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1988, with my blessing, New York opened its first “maxi-max” prison facility, Southport Correctional, in Chemung County, near Elmira. Not only were we running out of solitary confinement units to house violent and otherwise disruptive inmates, Commissioner Tom Coughlin and I felt that we could improve on the unofficial system of distributing “bad” inmates [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talesfromthesausagefactory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15007002&amp;post=347&amp;subd=talesfromthesausagefactory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chairing the Committee on Correction: Maximum Security</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>danlfeldman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[prison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Meadow]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can say, with some confidence, that I spent more time in prison than any other New York elected official who was never convicted of a crime. New York had 62 correctional facilities – prisons – in the twelve years I chaired the Assembly Committee on Correction, and I spent time in most of them. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talesfromthesausagefactory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15007002&amp;post=343&amp;subd=talesfromthesausagefactory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creeping Republicanism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>danlfeldman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crown Heights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[endorsement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 1973 and 1974 City Council campaigns, I saw the power of incumbency. Walter Ward was a politician who could barely articulate a statement on any matter of public policy, who never authored serious legislation, and much of whose district, during his tenure, deteriorated as a result of poorly planned low-income housing and nursing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talesfromthesausagefactory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15007002&amp;post=338&amp;subd=talesfromthesausagefactory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reactions to changing demographics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>danlfeldman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York State Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1880s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brooklyn Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[East Midwood]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The older established residents of the district did not react to the Russian immigrants the same way they reacted to the Chinese. Many of my constituents, often of Russian-Jewish ancestry themselves, regarded these new Russian immigrants as obnoxious and pushy. Indeed, after a lifetime of struggling with corrupt officials, with inadequate supplies of food and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talesfromthesausagefactory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15007002&amp;post=334&amp;subd=talesfromthesausagefactory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Changing demographics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>danlfeldman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Rouchefoucald said several hundred years ago, the only constant in life is change. Like everything else, the 45th Assembly District changed. In 1980, it still turned out one of the largest Democratic primary votes of any district in New York, with about 18,000 votes cast in my own race, at the bottom of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talesfromthesausagefactory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15007002&amp;post=331&amp;subd=talesfromthesausagefactory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting with Constituents</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>danlfeldman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York State Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aeschylus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Hevesi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brighton Baths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cuomo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death penalty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genuine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At one point, I was battling Governor Cuomo on one front and Mayor Koch on another. My wife disingenuously asked me if she was under a misapprehension in assuming that politicians were supposed to be especially good at making friends, not enemies.  But I didn’t only antagonize fellow politicians. I sometimes antagonized constituents, too. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talesfromthesausagefactory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15007002&amp;post=328&amp;subd=talesfromthesausagefactory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doughnuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>danlfeldman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To this day I cannot eat doughnuts. Section 3-400 of New York State’s election law requires the appointment of two Democrats and two Republicans as “inspectors” at the polling place for each election district. The local political party organizations submit lists of candidates for those posts to the local board of elections. In New York [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talesfromthesausagefactory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15007002&amp;post=324&amp;subd=talesfromthesausagefactory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Public servant</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>danlfeldman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elected officials almost always call themselves “public servants.” That doesn’t truly describe the role of a president, a U.S. senator, a governor, or most statewide office-holders. In many ways they are really public masters, not public servants. As the Assembly Member from the 45th District, I knew I was a public servant. For one thing, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talesfromthesausagefactory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15007002&amp;post=319&amp;subd=talesfromthesausagefactory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Graduation speeches and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Citizenship Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>danlfeldman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Allegheny]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chuck Schumer had taught me that most constituents never attend any community or civic meetings. They may drive to work, or work at home, so you might not see them at subway stops either. They may never show up at any other public gathering, but they attend their child’s graduation from school. Therefore, if they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talesfromthesausagefactory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15007002&amp;post=317&amp;subd=talesfromthesausagefactory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Genovese]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My hostile relationship with Mario Cuomo started in 1987 when Cuomo used the no-show job scandal with Assemblywoman Gerdi Lipschutz, noted in a previous post, as the basis for a relentless attack on the ethics of the Legislature. Virtually daily, for weeks, he lambasted the Legislature, called for the establishment of an investigating commission, which, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talesfromthesausagefactory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15007002&amp;post=313&amp;subd=talesfromthesausagefactory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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