Forum Post: Read the "wedge issue" post
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 22, 2011, 11:01 p.m. EST by GypsyKing
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If this movement forms a solid alliance with - not subservience to - the left wing of the democratic party this movement will not be stopped!
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top secretary urged Albany Mayor Jerry Jennings on Friday to instruct city police to remove Occupy Albany protesters from a downtown park near the state Capitol if they tried to remain there after an 11 p.m curfew.
A person familiar with the matter said Cuomo’s secretary, Larry Schwartz, called Jennings late Friday morning and said that State Police, who control half of the park that is partly owned by the state of New York and city of Albany, would remove any protesters who did not comply with a curfew. The position of the governor’s office was in contrast to an earlier plan by Albany police to leave the protesters alone if they were peaceful, even if they stayed overnight.
Occupy Albany demonstrators began arriving at Lafayette/Academy park around noon. Half of the space is state land, the rest city property.
Read Brendan Lyons’ full story here.
Yes, but what I'm saying is that it's an issue both of integrity and numbers - integrity, because there are still a lot of Democrats that are good people and feel very tied to the party - numbers, well, that's obvious. Do we want the Dems running us? Hell no! But if we think we can get by without most of this country's left-wing base, or just diss them, than I think that's very bad reasoning indeed.