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  • The First Time a Bold New Yorker Got Impeached for Taking on the Swamp

    12/24/2019 9:36:50 AM PST · by yoe · 9 replies
    The Daily Signal ^ | December 22, 2019 | Fred Lucas
    [snip]But reforming an old, entrenched system had its price. The system pushed back with impeachment, prompting the elected chief executive to respond: “I impeach the criminal conspirators.” It may sound similar to the current Washington saga and House Democrats’ impeachment of President Donald Trump. But this was nearly a hundred years ago in 1913 in Albany, New York, where Gov. William Sulzer took on the Empire State’s version of the “swamp.” It was known as Tammany Hall.
  • New York Democrats unmoved by Hillary’s announcement

    04/13/2015 7:42:39 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 18 replies
    New York Post ^ | 2015-04-13 | Fredric U. Dicker April 13, 2015 | 1:53am
    Hillary Rodham Clinton entered the presidential race Sunday to a stunning cold shoulder from Mayor de Blasio and few signs of genuine enthusiasm from other top New York Democrats, who want to see her espouse a far more liberal agenda.