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• Message from the Chair
  March 11, 2024
  I’m going to make this brief, because not only is March petition-passing time, we have a congressional district that might look very different when the stakeholders are finished with it! It keeps a committee chair busy from dawn til dusk. But I wanted to take time to send a shout-out to TCDC members who are carrying petitions for us. In a world where social media has just about replaced [more ...]
• House Sitting
  March 11, 2024
  Our congressional district is in flux; our Congressman is in stasis By Ann Reichlin New York’s congressional district lines are in flux yet again. Although the New York State Independent Redistricting Commission tweaked them, Tompkins County remained in NY-19. Then the New York State Legislature tweaked the lines again—again leaving Tompkins County in NY-19—for now. It’s still possible that [more ...]
• Message from the Chair
  January 7, 2024
  These are times that try men’s souls We live in challenging times. The wars in Ukraine and Gaza, as well as conflicts in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, are causing immense human suffering. Our domestic politics are fractious, often vicious. The fundamental values of our American Republic remain under assault. The leading Republican candidate for the presidency is an authoritarian bully [more ...]
• House Sitting
  January 7, 2024
  You can tell a lot about a politician by looking at who salutes him Local Congressman Marc Molinaro (R-NY19) spent 2023 demonstrating over and over that he’s a hypocrite, and not nearly as moderate as he pretends to be. As a GOP member of one of the most unproductive House sessions anyone can remember, Molinaro voted with extreme members of his party on several significant amendments, resolutions [more ...]
• House Sitting
  December 11, 2023
  By Ann Reichlin When we left off in last month’s column, Republicans in the House were in the throes of dysfunction in their effort to choose a new Speaker. Local Congressman Marc Molinaro and the rest of the House GOP caucus settled on the mild-mannered, lesser-known, far-right Trump sycophant Mike Johnson. Since Molinaro voted for Johnson, it’s fair to ask if he shares Johnson’s election [more ...]