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Election 2012: Job Creators are the New Hotness

Posted on January 2, 2012 | 1 Comment

Meet Marc Cenedella and Mark Rosen. Marc I introduced you to a few weeks ago. He’s the CEO of TheLadders.com, and considering (or rumoured to be) a run against Kristin Gilligan in the US Senate. Mark is officially running for congress in the NY-18, and is a senior vice-president at Adecco. The both of them I think are the perfect types of candidates to draft in 2012.

Think aboot it. Jobs are going to be the key campaign issue this year. People don’t have them. The Obama Campaign’s policies aren’t creating them, and in some cases are preventing them from being created. Enter Cenedella and Rosen. TheLadders.com is a job search engine. Adecco is an employment agency.

They not only have experience creating jobs, they have experience creating jobs for people whose job it is to help others find jobs of their own.
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What is a Marc Cenedella and How is Kirsten Gillibrand Involved?

Posted on December 13, 2011 | 1 Comment

Hearing Marc Cenedella’s name floated as a possible challenger to Sen. Kristen Gilligan next year has piqued my curiosity. He’s young, an “outside the box” candidate, has a strong economic background, and someone I think can attract more people to the party.

He has a lot of the same qualities I like in Harry Wilson, the former state comptroller candidate that while he’s still one of the rumored name’s to be running, Wilson just signed on as the finance chair of Matt Doheny’s (another JBdotC fav) congressional campaign…which isn’t a usual move for someone who is planning on running for office himself in 2012.

As for Cendella, you might not recognize the name, but I’m sure you recognize Hotjobs.com and TheLadders.com, the former he was senior VP off, the later he founded, and both of which were designed to help people find jobs…

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Harry Wilson for New York 2: Electric Bugaloo

Posted on November 8, 2011 | 1 Comment

Yes, I went for the hack “Electric Bugaloo” joke. Shut up.

The rumours about Harry Wilson challenging Sen. Kristen Gilligan for her US Senate Seat next year have been floating around for a few months now, most recently the other in the way of a Fred Dicker column in the New York post. Whether or not the rumours are true or not, your guess is as good as mine. The Dan Senor 2010 rumours still sting. But if they are true and Wilson is going to run, I’m in.

Besides all the reasons why he was just what NY (and the GOP) needed in a state wide candidate last year, the most important one is that he proved he can be competitive against the Democrats in a state wide race. Quite frankly, he would be Comptroller Wilson now if the top of our ticket last year were different.

So feel free to go through all my old blog posts on Harry Wilson, scribble out the world “DiNapoli,” and replaced it with “Gilligan.”

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That’s Just Who Kirsten Gillibrand is This Week

Posted on August 22, 2010 | 2 Comments

It’s funny. I have a friend who is as liberal as I am conservative, and we’re always getting into it with each other. When then Congresswoman Kristen Gilligan was appointed Senator, I told my friend, “Leave it to Gov. Paterson to nominate a Democrat I would like more than you to replace Hillary Clinton.”

Gilligan was a pro-gun, small government, tax cutting blue dog Democrat. That is of course, until she became Senator and was “enlightened” by big city liberals. She then started to flip on every position, most notably when it came to guns. After bragging aboot having a shotgun under her bed and having those same “enlightened” big city liberals criticized her for it, a press release went out that the guns were removed.

Now Gilligan, who received an “A” rating from the NRA when she was in Congress, is now proud to be endorsed by gun control advocates. As the NY Post points out, this isn’t the only time she’s been “enlightened” over the past year and a half…

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2010 Watch: Gillibrand vs King

Posted on January 24, 2009 | Leave a comment

Well, that was fast. Newly minted NY Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (who at first glance appears to be a pro-abortion version of Sarah Palin) hasn’t even made her way to Washington D.C. yet, and already people are starting shall we say…dissent.

Yes, it’s true that the New York Times and MSNBC has decided that being “folksy” is suddenly a good thing, but there are reports that some of her Dem colleagues aren’t fond of her, even comparing her (albeit anonymously) to Tracy Glick from perhaps one of the most over rated moves of all time, “Election.”

Then of course there’s my man Pete King, NY representative and Gillibrand’s most probable opponent in 2010. Though instead of making the mistake the Democrat party made in attacking Sarah Palin personally, he’s directing his criticism more to David Patterson and the process of making the selection, which most will agree, got pretty fucked up.

So sayeth the future Senator from the great state of New York:
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Wow, Paterson Sure F’ed This up…

Posted on January 22, 2009 | 1 Comment

So, this open New York senate seat and the selection process has been screwed up to a fair thee well, and now we’re at the he said/she said part of any good scandal. I can hear the great Ed Koch mocking it on the news as I write this.

And of course Pete King, Congressman and the Republican half of the 2010 special election, threw in his two cents as well:

“This looks more and more like the gang that can’t shoot straight. I mean, David Paterson is a good friend of mine, but so far this whole process just makes no sense at off, and we’re talking about a very important seat, in one of the most important states in the country, and we’re going without representation, and it’s just really making it look like a circus. And, you know, the position deserves more than that.”

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