Interesting bit of junk mail
I received an anti-school tax mailing today with no identifier other than the U.S.P.S. permit information “PRSRT. STD. Permit #370, Albany, NY”. A few minutes of searching turns up that this permit also appears on publications by:
- NY Farm Bureau
- SEIU Local 444
- Legal Aid Society of Northeastern NY
- Institute for Design Professionals
- School Span
- Project Lead The Way (various sites)
- Teamsters Local 294
- NYS Insurance Fund
- Albany Prep Charter School
and many others.
I wonder what the connection is? Are they using the same bulk mailing company?
Update 20110510 —
The local newspaper picked up on it too… Phantom Call for No Vote
Open letter to the Cusick campaign
To whom it may concern:
Prior to this morning I did not have a strong opinion on the Albany County District Attorney
A Pilot Comments on Security Theater
The New York Times has a cogent opinion piece by an airline pilot on Airport Security Follies. Think about it.
Are you worried about civil rights yet?
Whatever you think of Cindy Sheehan’s clumsy, personal brand of activism, read [Glen Greenwald’s discussion](http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/02/learning-from-dear-leader.html) of her arrest at the State of the Union speech.
Are you worried about civil rights yet?
Observation on getting out to vote
Here are some numbers for New York City:
- According to the [NYC Department of Planning and the U.S. Census](http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/census/popcur.shtml), there are 8,168,338 people in the Big Apple.
- The 2000 U.S. Census demographics show that about 89% of those people were over age 18, which means that there should be roughly 7 million potential voters.
- The Board of Elections reported in March there were only 3,903,852 registered voters across the five boroughs.
- On Wednesday, 1.2 million people voted.
The next time you hear someone grousing about or praising the city government you can feel comfortable that the odds are better than 3-1 that they didn’t have anything to do with it.
Listen to this
Listen to the [AM radio interview with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin](http://www.zen41771.zen.co.uk.nyud.net:8090/WWL-AM%20Interview%20Nagin.mp3).
Ross Lonstein
