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skafather84
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19 Oct 2010, 11:52 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4o-TeMHys0&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]


I gotta agree...the rent is too damned high.


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19 Oct 2010, 12:00 pm

I was about to post this myself :)

This guy's my hero!



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20 Oct 2010, 10:01 am

Not sure if I'd vote for him or Kristin Davis. Maybe they could run together?


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20 Oct 2010, 10:15 am

that man's facial hair is awesome.


he runs for stuff from time to time. maybe he'll win something, sometime.

or just put that righteous facelawn on the ballot.


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20 Oct 2010, 10:19 am

Opening the stage to candidates like this pretty much destroys all real fundamental change in a 3rd party movement. Take for example, the beginnings of the tea party. It was founded on a platform against both the Republicans and Democrats .. the establishment saw that it was a threat so they infiltrated it, and halted that movement with Fox news. Then what did you get ? All of a sudden, the tea party became boosters for the Republican Party -- wake up people ! !

All Independents who wanted change in New York, are side railed by disruptive trivial candidates like this. I'm sure atleast a quarter of Independents (or people who swore off both the Republicans/Democrats) will vote for this loon just because of his personality and satire. Is this guy really our last hope ? Or are people so disenfranchised like myself knowing Andrew Coumo is going to win, that it almost becomes irrelevant who you vote for either way.. thing's like this annoy me.

If he wants to marry a shoe ... let him !



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20 Oct 2010, 11:58 am

Raymond_Fawkes wrote:
Opening the stage to candidates like this pretty much destroys all real fundamental change in a 3rd party movement. Take for example, the beginnings of the tea party. It was founded on a platform against both the Republicans and Democrats .. the establishment saw that it was a threat so they infiltrated it, and halted that movement with Fox news. Then what did you get ? All of a sudden, the tea party became boosters for the Republican Party -- wake up people ! !

All Independents who wanted change in New York, are side railed by disruptive trivial candidates like this. I'm sure atleast a quarter of Independents (or people who swore off both the Republicans/Democrats) will vote for this loon just because of his personality and satire. Is this guy really our last hope ? Or are people so disenfranchised like myself knowing Andrew Coumo is going to win, that it almost becomes irrelevant who you vote for either way.. thing's like this annoy me.

If he wants to marry a shoe ... let him !


Cuomo's got it locked, but I wouldn't be so fast to completely dismiss this guy. Of course he doesn't stand a chance in hell, but I'm not so sure that any 3rd party candidate really ever has a chance anyway. What McMillan brings to the table is a voice seldom heard. He actually has some very valid points about the poor in NY (and the rest of the US) that no one else ever wants to talk about. He's just pleading for the basics.

We talk a lot about the economy, health care, education, political campaigning, etc., but we have yet to address the fact that we have an outrageously high number of kids in NY (and the rest of the US) who don't know where they'll be sleeping tonight, or if they will get fed, even in a situation with working parents. The poor seem to be constantly left out of the equation and they are rarely, if ever represented in Albany (or other state capitals).



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20 Oct 2010, 12:10 pm

yes!! !!

music video!! ! ****edit: damnit! not the music video. just a song. there's a music video out there. maybe i'll look for it later.****

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6pKaAx2cDo[/youtube]




and ray: you could always vote for the horseporn guy who thinks homosexuals are yucky.

who would you prefer for the position? if they couldn't make it onto the stage and this guy could...... why couldn't they?

Tea Party is a near-meaningless term, at this point. my memory of this tea party crap leads back to libertarians and libertarians are always treated this way by the republican party and fox news. we won't have an end to the two party system until we change the way we actually vote to give "third party" candidates a fair shot. something like the instant runoff-voting ideas that have been floated and actually adopted in some places.

just remember that your "3rd party movement" has no more right to a spot on that stage than anyone else who meets the requirements.

and they have no less.


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20 Oct 2010, 12:12 pm

number5 wrote:
We talk a lot about the economy, health care, education, political campaigning, etc., but we have yet to address the fact that we have an outrageously high number of kids in NY (and the rest of the US) who don't know where they'll be sleeping tonight, or if they will get fed, even in a situation with working parents. The poor seem to be constantly left out of the equation and they are rarely, if ever represented in Albany (or other state capitals).


qft.



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20 Oct 2010, 12:19 pm

Minimum wage 160 hours a month ain't enough to feed yourself and pay rent, 'nuff said.


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20 Oct 2010, 12:56 pm

They seem like the US version of the "monster raving loony party" from the UK. That man makes me laugh, I like the way he talks.


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20 Oct 2010, 2:25 pm

he hasn't even paid rent himself since the 80's
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/Rent-Is-Too-Damn-High-Candidate-Doesnt-Pay-Rent-105346278.html


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20 Oct 2010, 3:54 pm

He's a karate expert, how can't you vote for him?



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20 Oct 2010, 7:10 pm

i would soooooo vote for him if he ran for mayor in my city. rent in my small city is higher than toronto for goodness' sake.


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20 Oct 2010, 7:30 pm

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He exchanged his rent for being a maintenance worker. He pays his rent with labor obviously.



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20 Oct 2010, 7:31 pm

I kind of doubt the validity of any solution to the issue. Unless rent is just being substituted, something's going to blow up somewhere in the system. I doubt that this man is seeking to subsidize rent so much as just hurt renters, and this will just reduce buildings to rent in the future.



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22 Oct 2010, 3:42 am

Awesomelyglorious wrote:
I kind of doubt the validity of any solution to the issue. Unless rent is just being substituted, something's going to blow up somewhere in the system. I doubt that this man is seeking to subsidize rent so much as just hurt renters, and this will just reduce buildings to rent in the future.


It is unfortunate that he presents himself as entertaining rather than in a manner which might put him into the position about being able to do something about the issues he raises. However it does not appear he has a viable, well thought out solution to these issues so perhaps it is better that he presents himself in the manner such as he does.