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ROSENDALE — A town justice on Thursday dismissed the harassment charge against U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey that was filed by a man who claimed the congressman struck him on the head during the Rosendale Street Festival. The judge, Robert N. Vosper Jr., said the alleged action did not rise to the level of criminal prosecution. He also cited the probability that no charge would have been filed had Hinchey, D-Hurley, not been a public official. Vosper, in a decision dated Wednesday but not handed down until Thursday afternoon, said Hinchey should not be held to "any higher standard than any...

ROSENDALE, NY—Controversial upstate New York Congressman Maurice Hinchey has been ordered to town court to answer a charge that he struck a constituent during a July event. Democrat Hinchey, who represents Ithaca and much of the state’s Southern Tier, has been directed to appear in Rosendale Town Court on September 9 to answer a charge of Harassment Second Degree. According to the Kingston Daily Freeman the charge stems from an altercation between Hinchey and a local member of the National Rifle Association: Paul Lendvay, 46, of Rosendale, the chairman of the Catskill Regional Friends of the National Rifle Association, had...

ROSENDALE - A Rosendale man said on Thursday that he plans to press charges against U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, alleging the congressman struck him on the head during an argument at the recent Rosendale Street Festival. "I do intend to press the issue," said Paul Lendvay, 46, who is the chairman of the Catskill Regional Friends of the National Rifle Association. Lendvay said he would file a criminal complaint against Hinchey, D-Hurley, with the Rosendale Police Department, but no complaint had been filed as of Thursday afternoon. A Hinchey spokesman said there is "absolutely no truth or validity to the...

WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Call it the un-impeachment hearing. The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Friday it insisted was not about removing President Bush from office. But critics of Bush's policies couldn't pass up the chance to charge the president with a long list of impeachable "high crimes and misdemeanors." Leading the way was Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, the former Democratic presidential candidate who has brought repeated impeachment resolutions on the House floor against Bush and Vice President Cheney. Kucinich got a rock star welcome of whistles, hoots and clapping as he walked into the hearing room, holding hands...

Reps. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.) have said in recent weeks that U.S. oil refineries should be "socialized" -- that is, nationalized and run by the federal government. But Waters apparently is now backing away from those comments. In speaking to oil company executives at a May 22 hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Waters tried to hold her tongue but nonetheless said: "This liberal will be all about socializing, uh, uh ... would be about basically taking over and the government running all of your companies." At a June 18 press conference, Rep. Hinchey said he...

Reps. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.) have said in recent weeks that U.S. oil refineries should be "socialized" -- that is, nationalized and run by the federal government. But Waters apparently is now backing away from those comments...

It was astonishing to hear Maxine Waters openly discuss nationalizing the oil industry. She was talking to the heads of America’s oil companies, and she was a little worked up, so it was also possible to say that it was just one person, speaking impulsively in a moment of anger, and easily dismissed. What left most conservatives and libertarians staring in slack jawed wonder was when Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) stood before the press and advocated nationalizing the oil refineries. While most have known about the socialist beliefs of the left, what surprised them was the matter of fact manner in...

Reps. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.) have said in recent weeks that U.S. oil refineries should be "socialized" -- that is, nationalized and run by the federal government. But Waters apparently is now backing away from those comments. In speaking to oil company executives at a May 22 hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Waters tried to hold her tongue but nonetheless said: "This liberal will be all about socializing, uh, uh ... would be about basically taking over and the government running all of your companies." At a June 18 press conference, Rep. Hinchey said he...

WASHINGTON — A Democratic lawmaker stepped off the idea of nationalizing oil refineries, telling FOX News on Thursday he only means to put "national pressure" on oil companies a day after he endorsed the idea of government refinery ownership. Following President Bush's call on Wednesday for the re-opening of the Outer Continental Shelf to oil exploration after a 27-year moratorium, Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-N.Y., endorsed the idea of national ownership of at least some U.S. oil refineries. [snip] But on Thursday, Hinchey avoided questions over his support for U.S. ownership of refineries in an interview with FOX News. He conceded,...

In fact, Representative Maurice Hinchey stated that “we (the government) should own the refineries. Then we can control how much gets out into the market.”

TOMPKINS COUNTY, N.Y. -- At a press conference Thursday, Congressman Maurice Hinchey outlined short, medium and long-term solutions to reducing gas prices. He said major reasons for the rising cost of fuel are the U.S. occupation of Iraq and especially the decreasing value of the dollar. "The value of the dollar has not been addressed. All of the focus has been on the oil companies, the government and the producers of oil. But the value of the dollar has driven up the price of oil at least 50 percent over the course of the last couple of years more than...

Congressman Maurice Hinchey today called again for Congress for formally censure President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales over the U.S. military involvement in Iraq and other activities, including wire taps and alleged torture. Hinchey is a Democrat from New York’s 22nd district, which stretches from the central Hudson Valley to the city and town of Ithaca. In August, he introduced a censure resolution in the House. House Resolution 625 has 23 co-sponsors and was referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. A similar Senate measure, S. Res 302, was...

ITHACA — U.S. Congressman Maurice D. Hinchey, D-22nd, decried federal debt, income inequality, corporate-owned media, lost manufacturing jobs, gaps in insurance and the war in Iraq at a legislative briefing Monday morning at the Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Ithaca. Hinchey said the war in Iraq is part of a larger plan perpetrated by “the political right wing nationally in America going back to the 1970s” to fund military endeavors to divert money from domestic programs. “The situation that we're facing today is not accidental,” he said. “It's a conscious idea of this administration and others like it with the...

Democrats have introduced resolutions in the House and Senate that would censure President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., introduced the censure resolutions in the Senate on Aug. 4; New York Democrat Maurice D. Hinchey introduced them in the House a day later. One resolution (S Res 302, H Res. 625), would censure Bush and Cheney for “misleading the American people” about the need to invade and occupy Iraq, as well as for poor planning and conduct of the war. The other measure (S Res 303, H Res. 626) would censure Bush and...

ITHACA, NY--Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) is offering a House resolution to censure President Bush and Vice President Cheney. However, it may not be enough for his far-left supporters. His resolution will say that Bush and Cheney made intentionally false statements about Iraq’s possession of weapons of mass destruction and misled the public into believing Saddam Hussein had ties to Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda. …A second censure resolution will deal with a warrantless surveillance program, policies regarding torture and detainees, politically motivated firings of U.S. attorneys, and issuing presidential signing statements…. Hinchey’s resolution is seen by many as a...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Upstate congressman Maurice Hinchey will offer a bill publicly upbraiding President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney over the Iraq war. Hinchey, D-Hurley, will push the House version of a censure bill first proposed by Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis. on Sunday. The Democratic congressman, whose district stretches from the Hudson River Valley west toward Binghamton, is a longtime and severe critic of the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq.

Liberal Democrats are attempting to muzzle conservative talk radio: they are assaulting free speech. Like the communists in the former Soviet Union, America’s liberals seek to crush dissent by consolidating control over the media—especially talk radio, which has emerged as the dominant medium for conservative opinion. Allies close to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are promoting legislation, which if passed, will take off the air prominent conservative radio hosts such as Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly—along with thousands of smaller conservative broadcasters. The bill, entitled the "Media Ownership Reform Act," is sponsored by Rep. Maurice Hinchey, a...

Mr. HINCHEY. Madam Speaker, as a veteran of the United States Navy, I am very, very honored to be a Member of this House of Representatives. And today I am very proud and pleased to stand here in support of this very important resolution, which needs to be adopted as the final first step of this Congress in dealing with this unjust, illegal, unnecessary invasion of Iraq and the subsequent disastrous occupation. In October of 2002, when the resolution authorizing this invasion came to the floor, 133 Members voted against it. 127 Democrats and six Republicans voted against it. Most...

ITHACA NY—According to Gannett news, there’s no question that recent presidents have appointed “radical right-wing judges” to the bench.In the Monday (June 19) issue of the Ithaca Journal, reporter Raymond Drumsta wrote that Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D) appeared at a local event and “railed about issues such as … radical right-wing judges appointed by recent presidents and America's prison population.”At no point in the article did Drumsta, or his editor,see fit to note that this was a matter of opinion. Instead, the story reported the characterization of the judges as if it were fact.In addition to his work for Gannett,...

Media BlogStephen Spruiell Reporting THE MARKUPBattle Royale: "Partisan" vs. "Propagandist"  Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) got more than he bargained for on tonight's "Hannity and Colmes." Hinchey came on to promote himself on the platform that he wants to impeach President Bush for allegedly lying to Congress about WMDs. He blathered about this for awhile, and then Hannity broke in: HANNITY: I'm listening to what you're saying. So you're saying when the President told the nation that Saddam's nuclear threats are a real grave danger to America and Saddam's WMDs are a threat to America, you're saying that George W. Bush...

BUSH IMPEACHMENT IN THE WORKSLoose-Lipped Hillary Operative Spills the Beans at Town Hall Meeting Posted by Richard Poe @ Sunday 7 August 2005, 8:57 am The Impeach Bush crowd is warming up for the big event.  Democrat congressman Maurice Hinchey of New York — a Hillary operative notorious for his loose lips — provided some useful insights into the Democrats’ impeachment strategy in remarks delivered at a July 30 town hall meeting in Ithaca, New York.Citing the Downing Street memos and the Plamegate controversy, Hinchey stated in a public forum at Ithaca’s Town Hall, “My greatest hope is that all...

ITHACA--New York State Congressman Maurice Hinchey, recently under fire for “racking up a stunning $161,393 [in free travel] footed by special-interest groups,” is excusing his actions by blaming “Republican spin.” But a non-partisan group tells a different story. Writing in the Ithaca Journal, Hinchey, claims that his trips, to such places as Rome, Shanghai and Morocco, are ethical because he does not consider the groups that footed the bills to be lobbyists: "[A]ll of my privately funded trips abroad have been sponsored by well-known and highly regarded non-partisan, non-profit organizations that are dedicated to informing public policy.” Therefore, Hinchey...

The New York Sun carries a report of Cuban-American anger at six New York Democrats who were among 22 Representatives who voted against a measure expressing American solidarity with Cuba's democratic activists. The resolution, H.R. 193, passed 392-22. Among the Congressional boneheads was my favorite communist-coddling congressmen Maurice Hinchey, who last graced Confederate Yankee when he was the keynote speaker for a Marxist anti-war group on the anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. What did gems of wisdom did Hinchey have to offer?Mr. Hinchey, too, said he objected to the language of the legislation, which he said "originates with the...

SEC. 2. IMPLEMENTATION OF PUBLIC INTEREST STANDARDS. Section 309 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 309) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: `(l) Implementation of Public Interest Standard- `(1) PURPOSE- The purposes of this subsection are-- `(A) to restore fairness in broadcasting; `(B) to ensure that broadcasters meet their public interest obligations; `(C) to promote diversity, localism, and competition in American media; and `(D) to ensure that all radio and television broadcasters-- `(i) are accountable to the local communities they are licensed to serve; `(ii) offer diverse views on issues of public importance,...

Congressman's Aide Asks for Help Flooding Local Newspaper Poll March 02, 2005 | 09:58:09 EST In another example of the increasing importance of web polls, a spokesman for Maurice Hinchey, the New York Democratic congressman who recently came under fire for suggesting the Bush reelection campaign was behind Memogate, has been asking supporters to skew an online survey in the congressman's favor. "One of our local papers, the Daily Freeman, has been conducting an online poll asking readers if they agreed with Maurice's assertions. Until recently, the response has been relatively equal. However, this weekend, the right-wing bloggers began to...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3199295 mdmc (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-01-05 01:01 PM Original message Hinchey staffer asks DU for HELP! (DU this poll., please) http://www.dailyfreeman.com/site/news.asp?brd=1769 Dan Ahouse runs the show for Hinchey down in D.C. Please help the BIG MO take on Kkkarl and the Orwellian right wing press. Please vote in this online poll. Dan's email message is below. Thank YOU, DU! Friends: As you may know, Maurice has been outspoken over the past week about his opinion that the White House political operation, led by Karl Rove, was behind the leaking of false documents to CBS regarding George Bush's military "service." His...

It gets more difficult each day for Democrats to top themselves with saying something completely over the top. Alas, the latest of the nut cases is Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY). As pointed out on Little Green Footballs earlier this week, at a community meeting in Ithaca, NY, Hinchey entered into a diatribe about how the infamous Rathergate memos were actually planted by Karl Rove as part of a massive conspiracy. In an audiotape recorded by a reader of Little Green Footballs at the townhall meeting, Hinchey first claimed to have direct evidence of Rove’s involvement, but then backtracked from this...

ITHACA NY-Howard Dean, recently elected Democratic National Committee chair, spoke yesterday to a packed Anabel Taylor auditorium about how he would remake the Democratic Party into a "party of change and reform." **** "Do not work for candidates who don't care what you think," Dean repeated twice to resounding applause. "If you want to sustain democracy, you have to run for office," Dean added. He said that just voting is not enough, and urged students to consider working in a campaign or contributing money. Dean began by speaking on what he thought was the most important issue today: the proposed...

WOODRUFF: As we reported a little while ago in our blog segment, the Internet is abuzz with reaction to comments by New York Democratic Congressman Maurice Hinchey. The congressman over the weekend shared his views about the now disputed CBS News report about President Bush's Air National Guard service. Representative Maurice Hinchey is with me now, he joins us from Albany, New York. Congressman Hinchey, what exactly did you say on Saturday at this town meeting in Ithaca? REP. MAURICE HINCHEY (D), NEW YORK: Well, Judy, what I said came in response to a question from one of my constituents....

ITHACA NY--Whenever a moonbat pokes its head out of the cave and says something so outrageous it can’t be ignored, you can be sure he or she has many other statements on the record that are as bad or worse. In the early days of the Iraq War, Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) sent a letter to supporters that accused the US of carrying out a “massacre” in Iraq: Hinchey cheered for anti-war stance. (Hat tip: mich-again.) ITHACA — U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-22, received a standing ovation from a largely anti-war crowd of about 300 people Friday night at the...

Yesterday Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) hosted a community forum in Ithaca, New York, on The Future Of Social Security. An LGF operative was present in the audience and happened to be recording as Rep. Hinchey launched into a barking moonbat conspiracy rant worthy of Democratic Underground, telling the audience he believed the fake CBS memos were planted by Karl Rove to discredit Dan Rather, and divert attention from President Bush’s “draft dodging.” When our operative asked Hinchey if he had evidence for these charges, he first said, “Yes, I do,” but when asked a second time he admitted he did...

WASHINGTON -- Specialist Robert Loria of Middletown lost his arm in Iraq, but instead of a farewell paycheck from the U.S. Army he got a bill for nearly $1,800. On Friday a platoon of New York lawmakers came to his rescue. Loria found himself stuck in Fort Hood Texas this week when Army officials claimed he owed them money for travel expenses to a hospital and lost equipment. Several lawmakers _ Rep. Maurice Hinchey and Senators Charles Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton _ interceded on behalf of the 27-year-old veteran after his irate wife, Christine Loria, told the Times-Herald Record...

ITHACA--More than 70 locals braved the cold last Saturday to hear what their representative to the United States Congress had to say. Some were looking for reassurance that the results of the upcoming presidential election would be accurate, others just wanted to show their support. U.S. Representative Maurice Hinchey (NY-22) held a noontime public forum Saturday at Ithaca's Town Hall. In preparation for the second session of the 108th Congress, Hinchey shared his perspective on issues, and allowed the public to ask questions. With a crowd flowing into the lobby of Town Hall, Hinchey attempted to predict the key components...

<p>ITHACA -- U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-22, received a standing ovation from a largely anti-war crowd of about 300 people Friday night at the State Theatre.</p> <p>Hinchey was cheered as "courageous" for a letter he sent to supporters recently that decried the war in Iraq, and which said that history may come to view it as "a massacre."</p>

<p>EDITORIAL You've got to hand it to Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-22nd Dist.) for his decision to openly question and criticize the Bush Administration while many of his Democratic colleagues stood mute and compliant.</p> <p>It is the right and the duty of members of Congress to needle and question public policies. When they disagree with the majority, they need to let their colleagues and their constituents clearly know where they stand on an issue or policy.</p>

<p>ITHACA-- Just a day after U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey referred to the U.S.-led war in Iraq as "a massacre," the Democrat who represents the City of Ithaca in Congress is hosting a public forum on the war at the State Theatre.</p>

<p>Many FReepers read the yesterday's thread posting a letter in which NY Congressman Maurice Hinchey accused the US of committting a "massacre" in Iraq.</p> <p>Two papers in Hinchey's district ran articles on Hinchey's letter, in which many residents criticized him, notably including a veteran who told Hinchey to "shut his damn mouth."</p>

<p>"A MASSACRE" is how U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey says history will remember the U.S. attack on Iraq.</p> <p>A Kingston-area veteran called Hinchey "sick" and said the congressman should "shut his damned mouth."</p> <p>Hinchey, D-22nd Dist., said in a recent letter that the current military action -- which has widespread support among the American public but which he opposes -- will result in the United States becoming a "pariah" to the rest of the world.</p>

POUGHKEEPSIE - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, in town on Tuesday to campaign for Rep. Maurice Hinchey, promised to help human services agencies secure federal funding and criticized the economic policies of the Bush administration. Clinton and Hinchey attended two events together: a fund-raiser for the five-term Democratic congressman and a forum at the Family Partnership Center, a one-stop-shopping health and human services center. The visit to the Family Partnership Center was designed to give Hinchey and Clinton insight into the work of some of the roughly 30 agencies that call the North Hamilton Street facility home. While there, they heard...

A local resident will face federal trespassing charges Monday related to her protest of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation at Fort Benning, Georgia - formerly known as the School of the Americas. Activist Linda Holzbaur was one of several dozen to be charged after she crossed onto the site of the institute in November. She and 36 others face up to six months in jail and $5,000 in fines. Opponents see the institute, which trains foreign students in military combat, as a symbol for U.S. involvement in bloody conflicts in Central and South America. Protesters note that many...

<p>In a recent editorial, the Press & Sun-Bulletin noted that "it's mighty difficult to persuade any New Yorker, especially an upstate resident, that any tax relief, however modest, isn't a good thing." Agreed. It's even more difficult when editorial writers persist in glossing over the facts. Perhaps a short summary is in order.</p>