The Spitzer Watch
In the very earliest days of his administration, we issued cautious words about whether our new Governor had the will and the knowledge to lead New York State to new levels of growth and development. We questioned whether he would be the crusader who promised critical reform of the nation's most dysfunctional Legislature and whether he had programs that would genuinely reform the state of health care and education in New York.
With the completion of his first State Budget and the conclusion of his first 100 days in office, we begin a "Spitzer Watch" to report on the progress being made. This first entry is "borrowed" from New York Civic, the non-political, non-profit educational organization established by former NYC Councilman, Parks Commissioner Henry Stern, who also happens to be State Chairman of the Liberal Party.
It opens with a summary of what the media has been saying about the Governor, the Legislature and the State Budget process and closes with some piquant suggestions by Mr. Stern himself directed towards the "rookie" Governor - which by their tone and policy concerns we find a fairly decent "liberal" approach to these first months of the new regime.
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A New ERA
We begin the Liberal Party's 63rd year, with a strong commitment to maintaining an informative, substantive and vibrant website, providing much deeper and broader information than we have in the past.
We don't make this commitment lightly. This website is our strongest link to the tens of thousands of Liberal Party supporters in New York State and in the region. We can make effective use of it to share our reconstruction of the Liberal Party's programs and policies, reminding those who know and those who have yet to learn, exactly what 'liberalism' is, what it has done to make these 60 years the golden age of America, and what it needs to do to help America retain the best of itself now and in the future.
In the months ahead, we will examine the state and nation's most important programs - what they are now and how they must be changed to work much better. We will state our ideas for change as clearly and as forcefully as we can. We will develop new policies and with them, a political program that we believe merits the true meaning of 'liberal' and what liberalism will do for the continued progress of this nation.
The campaign for President in 2008 has begun early in 2007. While we will make no effort to keep up with the constant barrage of words and pictures and new contenders that will be everywhere in the months ahead, we will share those views and issues from candidates which we see as having genuine merit and being worthy of serious consideration. Offering those programs for your consideration does not necessarily mean that we endorse the programs or the candidates at this point - just that we want to share those that seem to have promise in their ideas and direction.
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