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What you will find below is not a rant from the Iraq Ministry of Propaganda, or the wailings of a tenured professor at one of our institutions of "higher learning." Rather, it is a statement by a Member of Congress, who represents a moderate district equally divided among Republicans and Democrats. Read it and be enraged. Congressman Maurice D. Hinchey Representing New York's 22th Congressional District March 22, 2003 Dear Friends, We are witnesses to a watershed moment in the history of the American republic. It is too soon to know how this will turn out, but it is very...

MID-HUDSON – Names are already surfacing for potential Democratic candidates to replace the retiring Congressman Maurice Hinchey in the fall. New district lines have yet to be drawn, but that has not stopped political operatives from dropping names. Among those being mentioned is State Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther of Forestburgh. “It’s really a tremendous, tremendous compliment,” she said. “I love what I do right now; I enjoy the New York State Assembly.” Ulster County Executive Michael Hein, who just began his second term in office, has also been mentioned, but he too, told MidHudsonNews.com that he is staying put. “There is...

WASHINGTON — Rep. Maurice Hinchey, a senior House Democrat from the Catskills, is retiring at the end of this year — a move that could end up saving the congressional seat of either Rep. Kathleen C. Hochul, D-Amherst, or Rep. Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo. Hinchey’s spokesman, Mike Morosi, told the Poughkeepsie Journal on Wednesday that the 10-term lawmaker will announce his retirement today in Kingston. Hinchey, 73, had surgery last week for colon cancer, and Morosi said the lawmaker is now cancer-free. Because New York will lose two congressional seats in a reapportionment that the State Legislature must approve this year,...

KINGSTON — Advancing age, health scares and looming redistricting convinced Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-Hurley, to throw in the towel after 20 years in the House of Representatives. “Now is the right time for me to move on,” Hinchey, 73, told dozens of staffers and supporters Thursday at the Old Senate House. “It’s been the greatest privilege of my life.” Hinchey has undergone two rounds of colon cancer surgery since July. He maintained Thursday that he’s cancer-free and feeling much better, but said the experience “put everything in perspective” for him. He used to relish late nights pouring over arcane policy...

U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, a Hurley Democrat who has served in the House since 1993, will not seek re-election this fall, his office announced on Wednesday. On the eve of his retirement press conference, Hinchey's wife was charged with her second DWI in just eight months in Albany.... She was charged with driving while intoxicated, driving while using a mobile phone, aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and following too closely.... Mrs. Hinchey, a lobbyist for DKC, was arrested for drunken driving last May in the Ulster County town of Hurley, where she and her husband live, and ultimately...

Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.) will not seek reelection next year, his office announced Wednesday. The ten-term lawmaker plans to formally make the announcement on Thursday in Kingston, New York. His decision follows his recent treatment for colon cancer and doctors have designated him cancer-free, according to his office. One of the most liberal members of Congress and a member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, Hinchey, 73, was first elected to Congress in 1992. His district is comfortably Democratic but its lines may change when the state completes its redistricting process. During his first run for Congress in '92, Hinchey...

Labor Day finds New York Democrats fear ing that President Obama's sinking approval ratings will cost them ex-US Rep. Anthony Weiner's seat next week, plus several congressional seats and the recapture of the state Senate next year, senior party officials privately concede. "The fear is that with a Republican [Robert Turner] being so close for the Weiner seat, which is in a traditionally safe Democratic district, that Democratic marginals [in hard-fought districts] like Maurice Hinchey, Paul Tonko and Louise Slaughter, will be in trouble next year," a top Democratic said yesterday, referring to three upstate Congress members. Obama's polling numbers...

Mayor Rudy Giuliani, also known as "America's Mayor," today endorsed George Phillips in his bid to unseat Congressman Maurice Hinchey in New York's 22nd Congressional District. "In today's troubled economic environment, more than ever we need government policies which promote a climate of entrepreneurship and job creation rather than the current Democratic plans for higher taxes and suppression of growth. Maurice Hinchey has clearly stated his intention to raise taxes on our nation's farmers and small to medium business owners if he is sent back to Congress for yet another term. George Phillips has pledged to provide relief to our...

Yesterday, YNN reported that Democratic incumbent Rep. Maurice Hinchey had assaulted a newspaper reporter after a debate with George Phillips in the NY-22 race. YNN’s videographer reported that Hinchey had “made a beeline” for Kingston Daily Freeman reporter Bill Kemble after he had asked Hinchey about a potential conflict of interest in the Partition Street Project, a project for which Hinchey had earmarked federal funds and in which the Freeman had reported Hinchey and his business partners to have financial interests, directly and indirectly. Hinchey’s campaign released a statement late yesterday that Kemble “took an aggressive step” towards the Congressman,...

Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) ripped into a reporter outside a debate late Thursday, telling the scribe to "shut up!" as cameras rolled in the second taped confrontation between a New York candidate and a journalist in three weeks. According to the reporter, Kingston Daily Freeman's Bill Kemble, the long-serving congressman came at him after the cameras were off, resuming the argument, poking his finger in his chest and putting his hands near his throat before backing off. The scrap added a bipartisan flavor to the fighting that's gone on in races of late, with New York Republican gubernatorial hopeful Carl...

Bill Kemble of the Kingston Freeman found out that when Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) tells you to shut up, he’s not kidding. Last night, according to YNN’s Capitol Tonight blog, Hinchey erupted after Kemble tried to get Hinchey to answer a question regarding allegations of conflict of interest between Hinchey’s earmark requests and his own financial interests the Partition Street Project, a story covered by the Freeman last May. Hinchey refused to answer, at one point telling Kemble to “shut up!” while on YNN’s camera. Last night, he said he has “no financial interest” in the project, and pointedly told...

Yesterday, Little Green Footballs ("LGF") broke the story of Congressman Maurice Hinchey’s (D-NY) statement to a Cornell University audience that the CBS TANG memoes were most likely planted by Karl Rove. One of LGF’s operatives recorded the statement and challenged Hinchey on it, only to be told essentially that facts were not as important in determining the truth as Hinchey’s own beliefs. The Cornell audience naturally cheered Hinchey. The initial LGF story included a full transcript of Hinchey’s conspiracist remarks. Since then, LGF has run 3 more strings on the story, #2 #3 #4and a number of other other blogs...

some photos of Bill Clinton speaking at a rally for a desperate Maurice Hinchey. Binghamton, NY.

event: Tea Party Rally yesterday... put on by The Southern Tier Tea Party in Binghamton, NY... http://www.stteaparty.com/ here are my photos from the event: http://c5c5c5.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/tea-party-august-21-2010/ This was a rally to get both Maurice "Karl Rove planted the Rathergate memos" Hinchey and George Phillips (conservative who hopes to oppose him in this year's election) to participate in a Q&A. Just as expected, George showed up and Hinchey did not. the local media reports were pretty bad. two out of three local tv news outlets couldn't be bothered to report. Fox 40 was the only one: http://www.wicz.com/news2005/viewarticle.asp?a=15453 and the local newspaper article...

Republican Congressional candidate George Phillips is trying to slay Democrat Maurice Hinchey. Phillips is up against a mighty difficult dragon. At first glance, New York's 22nd Congressional District is predominately rural and above the frost line enough to be Republican. However, a closer look reveals a number of small cities and college campuses that make it the "Run away, run away" district for the GOP. It's gerrymandered to include Newburgh, Binghamton and Ithaca -- along with a long list of SUNY and private colleges. Hinchey, a nine-term incumbent Democrat, never had it so good. Hinchey also benefits from representing a...

Keith Ellison, widely hailed as America's first Muslim congressman, could more accurately be described as CAIR and Hamas' man in Congress. Congressman Ellison has been a regular presence at CAIR fundraisers and at pro-Hamas rallies in the United States. As a former member of Farrakhan's Nation of Islam , Ellison has enough anti-semitic and Islamist credentials to satisfy anyone, and had expressed openly anti-semitic beliefs in the past. Since Ellison got his start with CAIR , his attempt to provide support for Hamas is completely unsurprising. Both Hamas and CAIR are projects of the Muslim Brotherhood, which also helped...

Here is video of Democratic Rep. Maurice Hinchey accusing the Bush administration of intentionally letting Osama Bin Laden "get away." Rep. Hinchey said "we apparently intentionally let Bin Laden get away." Hinchey said the Bush admin. let Bin Laden get away because "they knew very well if they captured Al-Qaeda there would be no justification for an invasion in Iraq." (Video)

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...