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Stumping for Bellavia in Mount Morris, NY

| March 18, 2011 | 11 Comments
Stumping for Bellavia in Mount Morris, NY

As promised, I’m up in Mount Morris, NY collecting signatures for David Bellavia with a couple of GOE guys. He owns this town. David is supposed to meet us at Fred’s Tavern at 5pm, so it’ll probably be a late night.

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Bellavia for New York; updates

| March 14, 2011 | 9 Comments
Bellavia for New York; updates

Our buddy, David Bellavia, has decided he’s going to make a run at the Congressional seat in New York’s 26th District without the support of those fatass GOP dorks in Rochester. He just told me that in recent polling he’s ahead by two points in a four-way race to be held on May 24th. There’s […]

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David Bellavia: Here we go again

| February 22, 2011 | 25 Comments
David Bellavia: Here we go again

Who is David Bellavia? Watch this video; David was asked to run for the NY 26th Congressional District seat last week. I was raised in the neighboring CD and I know that David is the best choice, however the fat, greasy clowns in the 26th’s GOP party are leaning towards another millionaire who can finance […]

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West to CAIR: “Don’t try to blow sunshine up my butt”

| February 22, 2011 | 16 Comments
West to CAIR: “Don’t try to blow sunshine up my butt”

Old Trooper and ROS sent us this video of a confrontation Congressman (LTC, Ret.) Allen West had with Nezar Hamze, Executive Director of the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR) as recorded by the folks at SharkTank;

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Bellavia for Congress

| February 17, 2011 | 17 Comments
Bellavia for Congress

Our buddy, David Bellavia, is running for Congress in the seat recently vacated by Chris Lee in Buffalo, NY. I’m a little bit angry that Dave didn’t tell me himself and I had to find out from an email from Iraq Veterans for Congress; From a Rochester radio station WHAM; He says, “In 2008 I […]

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Murdered vet tied to arson attempt?

| January 5, 2011 | 11 Comments
Murdered vet tied to arson attempt?

The Philadelphia Enquirer reports this morning that John P. Wheeler, the former aide to three presidents, Vietnam veteran and driving force behind the Vietnam Memorial, may have been involved in an arson attempt in the days before his body was discovered in a Delaware landfill; Police in Delaware have discovered evidence that a former Pentagon […]

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Iraq war veterans in Congress

| January 3, 2011 | 6 Comments
Iraq war veterans in Congress

Stars & Stripes’ Leo Shane has conversations with the eight Iraq veterans elected to Congress this season and their commitment to their fellow soldiers and Marines; “I think you’ll see the House Armed Services Committee become more of a war committee than it has been in the last few years,” said Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., […]

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Representative Steve Buyer on the New GI Bill Changes

| December 28, 2010 | 7 Comments
Representative Steve Buyer on the New GI Bill Changes

I missed this this when I was writing my first post: “All Americans know that the month of December is already a strain on their pocketbook and to have your paycheck cut would be devastating to anyone. This provision is nothing but a lump of coal for veterans.” On Vet groups supporting the bill: “Are […]

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