From State Senator Marty Golden’s office:
Brooklyn – State Senator Marty Golden (R-C-I, Brooklyn) is announcing his plans to host two community memorials to commemorate the 9th Anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001, on Saturday, September 11, 2010.
The first memorial will take place at 6:00 p.m. in Marine Park, entrance at Fillmore Avenue and Marine Parkway and at 8:00 p.m., Senator Golden will lead a memorial ceremony at the American Veteran’s Memorial Pier, 69th Street and Shore Road. The events will both feature a candlelight vigil and a special patriotic musical performance at the conclusion.
Keep reading the release.
I’ve written before about the controversial method of “hydrofraking” near New York City’s watershed, and the State Legislature has finally put the brakes on business proposals until it’s been thoroughly studied. Absent from the discussion, though, were Sheepshead Bay’s two state senators – Marty Golden and Carl Kruger. Here’s a report from the Bay Ridge Journal, with information drawn from Brooklyn Eagle.
The New York State Senate, in what has been called a historic move, has passed a bill, S8129B, temporarily halting natural gas drilling permits in the state’s watershed until May 15, 2011.
The moratorium is believed to be the first in the country.
The moratorium buys the state time to assess the risks involved in the controversial natural gas drilling technique called “hydrofracking” or “fracking”.
The state assembly is expected to approve its version of the bill, A11443, in September, officially enacting the moratorium.
State Senate Majority Leader John Sampson, a Democrat representing Brownsville, Canarsie and East New York, co-sponsored the bill, joined by Brooklyn Democratic Senators Eric Adams, Velmanette Montgomery, Kevin Parker, Diane Savino and Dan Squadron.
According to a poll taken by Senator Sampson, the majority of New Yorkers favor a ban on hydrofracking.
Democrat Carl Kruger abstained from the vote. Republican Marty Golden was MIA.
Brooklyn Assembly Members Jim Brennan, Alan Maisel and Janele Hyer-Spencer support the Assembly version of the bill.
From State Senator Marty Golden’s office:
Brooklyn- State Senator Marty Golden (R-C-I, Brooklyn) this weekend will host the 2nd Annual Mid-Summer Festival in Marine Park which will feature rides, games, food, entertainment, merchandise vendors, public service information and more. All proceeds will benefit the Marine Park Civic Association.
The event will take place on Saturday, August 7, 2010 from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, August 8, 2010 from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The entrance to the event in Marine Park is located at Avenue U and East 33rd Street.
The first of State Senator Marty Golden’s annual Concerts In The Park series is kicking off tomorrow night, and we’ve got the full schedule. Concerts are free and open to the public and begin at 7:00 p.m. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own chairs and blankets. In case of poor weather, cancellations will be posted on the concert hotline by 5:00 p.m. the day of the event. The concert hotline is (718) 236-7547.
View Senator Marty Golden’s Concerts in the Park schedule, and see the original flier.
At their June 27 rally, mosque opponents targeted politicians for their silence on the issue. Now they respond.
Brooklyn Paper has a pair of updates on the mosque issue, fueled by the deluge of comments they received from their initial report.
First up, they got in touch with most of the politicians with districts located near the mosque, getting their reading of the situation. The verdict? Freedom of worship is a constitutional right, and any attempt to stop the mosque from being built is an invasion of that liberty.
Keep reading to find out what the local politicians had to say, my thoughts on it, and what other developments have emerged surrounding the planned Sheepshead Bay mosque.
Photo courtesy of Legislative Gazette
State Senator Marty Golden gathered with a handful of Senate Republicans to blast the governor on the state’s parole policies, and to introduce reforms that would make it more difficult for cop-killers to walk the streets.
From Legislative Gazette:
“There are over 2,500 parolees in the city of New York right now, and they are wondering why crime is going up,” said Senate Crimes and Corrections Committee Ranking Member Martin Golden, R-Brooklyn, at a June 8 press conference in the Capitol.
“There are no jobs so these parolees are going back to what they know best. What is that?” he asked.
“It’s raping, murdering and killing — and that’s what’s happening,” said Golden, answering his own question.
Following a Parole Board decision to release a convicted cop killer and in advance of another cop killer up for parole, the senator, a retired police officer, lambasted Governor Paterson for giving violent offenders a “second chance.”
Find out about Golden’s parole reform plan, and the governors response.
After we posted our article last week about a supposed cohort of State Senator Marty Golden intimidating constituents with “psychopathic” petitioning, the editor of Atlas Shrugs in Brooklyn, John Galt, wrote to us assuring the piece’s validity.
If you don’t remember, a man was seen making rounds in the 49th Assembly District “shouting down, intimidating, and even physically threatening elderly voters.” Atlas Shrugs wrote that the man was known as a Golden affiliate. We wrote that Atlas Shrugs hasn’t always had kind words to say about Golden, and we were still looking for confirmation of who the man worked for.
Read Galt’s letter to Sheepshead Bites, and our thoughts behind the story.
Courtesy of Atlas Shrugs In Brooklyn
With election season drawing near, candidates for State Assembly and State Senate are sending their minions into the street to collect signatures. The petitions, as they’re known, are a requirement to be listed on the ballot.
Atlas Shrugs In Brooklyn, a Republican blog covering the Brooklyn GOP, is reporting that a “psychopathic petitioner” is making rounds in the 49th Assembly District, which includes Dyker Heights, Bath Beach, Bensonhurst and Borough Park.
Keep reading to find out what Atlas Shrugs says this
Courtesy of NYMag.com
I’m so very tired of these hacks and has-beens, these ineffectual buffoons, dragging one of the greatest states in the nation down into the trenches of mediocrity. So very, very tired.
I’m talking, of course, about our esteemed State Senators – all of them – who collectively comprise the foulest carnival of corruption and ineptitude in the developed world. And I say this after having lived in New Jersey for four years, circa Jim McGreevey.
And the worst part is that these jerks have put me in a particularly uncomfortable position: agreement with Former Mayor Ed Koch. (Okay, it’s far from the worst part. But it’s still uncomfortable.)
Koch is the face of New York Uprising, a non-partisan political action group formed in April to belittle, embarrass and shame Albany’s spineless shlubs into supporting legislation to reform redistricting. As it’s done now, whichever party is in power gets to gerrymander, ensuring that their party remains in power until the maps are redrawn 10 years later. Koch supports legislation that will create a nonpartisan committee that will draw up the districts.
According to Koch, gerrymandering is one of the key tools used by incumbents to insulate themselves as much as possible from the public, sparing them the repercussions of their incompetence.
Keep reading about Koch’s Uprising and his thoughts on Kruger, and discover other groups with similar goals.
From the offices of State Senator Marty Golden:
Please attend a rally and forum to save the future of bus service in our community
Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
Xaverian High School, 7100 Shore Road, Brooklyn
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SENATOR MARTY GOLDEN WANTS THE METROPOLITAN TRANSIT AUTHORITY (M.T.A.) TO HEAR FROM YOU ABOUT THESE SERVICE CHANGES SCHEDULED TO GO INTO EFFECT
Complete elimination of the X37 and X38 (Uptown Express Bus Service)
Complete weekend express bus service elimination on the X 27 and X 28
Complete elimination of the B23
Complete elimination of the B 37, with rerouting of B70 to supplement partial service
Overnight service on the B 31
Weekend service elimination on the B2
Weekday/Weekend/Overnight service reductions changes on the B4, B16 and B 64
Read the rest of Golden’s flier
