John Sweeney - Congressman Wife Beater

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Wednesday November 01, 2006 · 9:48 AM PST

2006/11/01 · 09:48

What else is there to the story about the fact that Congressman Kick Ass (aka John Sweeney R-NY) takes his work home with him and knocks around his wife, grabbing her by the throat and pushing her around the house? What is pathetic about this story is that it is just one of many "shortcomings" which the Post Star recently encouraged readers to "overlook" in order to send this thug back to congress.

I've written to the Post Star and asked them to withdraw their endorsement of John Sweeney. Here's their online letter form. Not only did Sweeney scare his wife enough to make a 911 call. The story also shows him trying to peddle another bold faced lie claiming that the report is concocted. The officer confirms that he was there. How dumb does he think we are?

Oh, and he issued a statement that threatened newspapers who covered the report:

`If any media outlet plans to run a story based on this unauthentic,
false and concocted document the outlet should be prepared to deal
directly with our counsel. ...

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Wednesday October 25, 2006 · 9:37 AM PDT

2006/10/25 · 09:37

Associated Press Writer Devlin Barrett writes a about GOP fears of losing big in NY due to the Spitzer and Clinton coat-tails that may help downstate candidates. That's fine and dandy.

What sucks about the story is he mentions the John Sweeney / Kirsten Gillibrand race specifically and then he mentions the congressional paige scandal and ignores Sweeney's own troubles with the undisclosed trip to Mariana Islands trip he took with Abramoff's right hand man.

I've dug up more evidence demonstrating that Sweeney was there due to his appropriations position not to help out with sweatshop reforms as Sweeney maintains.

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Tuesday October 24, 2006 · 2:12 PM PDT

2006/10/24 · 14:12

We have a lot of friends who follow politics closely. I am sometimes in the dark when it comes to conversations I hear, and even ones I get sucked into. Yesterday at the Clinton Rally for Kirsten Gillibrand, one of the Dems noted that Republicans fight with Democrats while Democrats fight with Democrats too.

Everyone wants to debate who will run in 2008, why not stay focused on winning the 2006 elections instead? Kirsten Gillibrand is a great candidate, let's just worry about winning back congress. I don't see the point in discussing who will run in 2008. There will be a primary and whoever wins that primary is going to be our candidate.

We should all learn something from the Republicans here and - unite behind our winning candidate when we have one. Even Dick Cheney says Hillary could win the presidency. Not that Dick Cheney is always right, or ever right, but even a blind monkey finds a bananna once in a while. And I'm sure Dick's got lots of friends who would like to have the Clintons back in the White House to kick around for another 8 years. But still, who are we to say she shouldn't run?

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Sunday October 22, 2006 · 7:43 PM PDT

2006/10/22 · 19:43

So far, Republican John Sweeney's (NY-20) claims that he "doesn't know" Jack (Abramoff that is) and "I don't believe that I'm not in compliance," seem to have been working for him. So far he's only maybe failing to report his trip to the Mariana Islands. With an Abramoff lobbyist. To an Abramoff client. At some point we're gonna start connecting the dots.

Forget that Bush's whitehouse also said "We don't know Jack." Which doesn't mean it was like ... uhhh... the truth. Focus on this: Sweeney's financial records were pulled by the Department of Justice "on the same August day by the same DOJ staffer who looked at the records of Ney, Rudy, Berry and Lopez" as Roll Call reported eons ago. Though Sweeney had been getting money from Abramoff's firm everyone kept saying there was no connection between Sweeney and Abarmoff.

Sweeney's (oopsie) unreported trip to the Marianas Islands with a guilty Abramoff Lobbyist, Tony Rudy and his meetings with Abramoff's client suggest that the DOJ look into Sweeney's files is because of the Abramoff scandal.

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Wednesday October 18, 2006 · 9:36 PM PDT

2006/10/18 · 21:36

Since the AP is bound and determined to report without question John Sweeney's spin about what he was doing in the CNMI, I think we should revisit the little speech that Sweeney gave to the Chamber of Commerce when he was there. In some rather biased reporting, the AP shills Sweeney's version of reality claiming that:

Sweeney spoke at the Saipan Chamber of Commerce during the trip, in part because Northern Mariana Islands officials wanted Sweeney to advise them on potential reforms of local businesses that Democrats brand sweatshops.

Here's the story from Forbes. According to Dems there are sweatshops but according to the report "Sweeney was there Northern Mariana Islands officials wanted Sweeney to advise them on potential reforms of local businesses" Psssttttt....Sweeney was there with an indicted Amramoff lobbyist, maybe he's fibbing about what he was doing there. Maybe the reporter didn't see 20/20's 1999 expose on this - or else he thinks that 20/20 is run by Democrats. What is up when an AP reporter can't figure out what is and what isn't a sweatshop on his own? 20/20 reported there is:

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Saturday October 07, 2006 · 6:54 PM PDT

2006/10/07 · 18:54

The Gillibrand Campaign is where it should be with the Foley issue - leading. The campaign is moving the game forward instead of playing defense as Democrats often do. See the Gillibrand Press release on the Foley/Sweeney PROM Money below the jump. This release shows us that Kirsten Gillibrand is not spineless. While John Sweeney looks like a scaredy cat as he comes up with one excuse after another to cancel a debate, Gillibrand is holding his feet to the fire when it comes to ethics.

While even some Democrats are sadened by the results of the recent poll released on Friday which show Gillibrand tailing Sweeney - let's not find ourselves bogged down in one of George Lakeoff's 12 Traps to Avoid:

The Poll Trap

Many progressives slavishly follow polls. The job of leaders is to lead, not follow. Besides, contrary to popular belief, polls in themselves do not present accurate empirical evidence. Polls are only as accurate as the framing of their questions, which is often inadequate. Real leaders don't use polls to find out what positions to take; they lead people to
new positions.

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Tuesday August 22, 2006 · 8:20 AM PDT

2006/08/22 · 08:20

John Sweeney (R-NY) and Rudy Giulani spoke in support of Bush's war in Iraq throughout upstate NY yesterday. They claimed that being on the offensive is better than waiting to be attacked. Newsflash: we are being attacked in Iraq on a daily basis. The deaths of our soldiers don't count according to John Sweeney? Doesn't he know the number of Iraqi deaths occurring in this war are also a huge problem creating more anger toward our nation, providing recruiting opportunities for terrorists?

...Now in its fourth year, the war has taken a toll -- more than 2,600 Americans have died and many more Iraqis have been killed. Last month alone, about 3,500 Iraqis died violently, the highest monthly civilian toll so far... (source)

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Sunday July 23, 2006 · 11:34 AM PDT

2006/07/23 · 11:34

Sweeney's pro-business and pro-campaign donor agenda will cost us taxpayers again if his newest bill goes into law.

John Sweeney (R-NY) announced that via the bill he introduced that:

"We provide safety without providing extra costs to boaters or manufactures"
(Sweeney quoted here)

Guess who is footing the bill instead of the boat industry? We, the taxpayers.

Sweeney has taken in $5,500 in campaign donations from the National Marine Manufacturer's PAC and then he writes legislation that could permit them to deduct up to two times the cost of buying boating safety equipment. To quote the HR 5274 "twice of the boat manufacturer's basis or cost of such qualified boating safety equipment" could be deducted.

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Wednesday July 12, 2006 · 11:21 PM PDT

2006/07/12 · 23:21

The current congress is going to do whatever it can (for Bush) to get around the Supreme Court Ruling (against Bush). We have to fight those who are going to keep supporting Bush's overreaching and abuse of power. We also have to remember who supported it in the first place.

The Conservative (Scaife Funded) Group, The Washington Legal Foundation submitted a brief to the court backing the government on its enemy combatant policy on behalf of three Republican members of Congress, Walter Jones of North Carolina, Lamar Smith of Texas and John Sweeney of New York.

We have to make sure that these Republicans are defeated in 2006. Spying on Law Abiding American Citizens won't catch terrorists. In fact, doing so only diverts time and money from catching terrorists.

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Thursday June 29, 2006 · 10:52 PM PDT

2006/06/29 · 22:52

We all know by now that the SC has declared that Bush's Tribunals are illegal. And that, yes, they violate the Geneva Conventions as Amnesty International noted almost 4 years ago:

The US Government ... refused either to grant any of the detainees prisoner of war status or to have any disputed status determined by a''competent tribunal'' as the Conventions require.

Which Republicans don't mind in the least:

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Thursday he would push legislation allowing President Bush to use military tribunals to prosecute terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay. (source)

3 questions: doesn't this ruling demonstrate that all of the overreaching Bush has been insisting is legal MUST now be challenged? If the Rs pass new laws sidestepping the "final" check in the balance of power, wouldn't our nation still be violating the Geneva Conventions? Or is Frist going to waste our time re-writing those next?

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Saturday June 24, 2006 · 7:43 AM PDT

2006/06/24 · 07:43

Robert Novak cites the GOP commissioned poll to bolster conservatives worried about the 2006 elections. The party has gotten their money's worth out of their skewed poll. I know that Novak, Bush, John Sweeney (R-NY) and others in their party have a hard time understanding the relationship between facts and reality, but here are the facts:

In the last 20th District race, the county turn out was as follows:

Columbia had 31,326 voters
Dutchess had 47,372 voters
Washington had 25,223 voters

Columbia and Dutchess Counties are where the 2004 Democratic Candidate had the most votes. Columbia voted for Kelley at 35%, Dutchess at 37%. Just 26% of Washington County voters choose Doris Kelley.

Number of people polled in each of those places?

Columbia - 18
Dutchess - 45
Washington - 44

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Monday June 19, 2006 · 3:02 PM PDT

2006/06/19 · 15:02

Kirsten Gillibrand, the Democratic Challenger to John Sweeney (R-NY) has put out her first TV spot. Head over to this 20TrueBlue Blog post to see it.

I think it is a great piece, it will help get her name recognition up. It will show the voters that the Sweeney side's smear of her is clearly off base - as she does in real life, she comes across as a warm, caring and regular person.

I also did some more checking on the recent GOP hired poll we've been discussing. By the rational that gave Saratoga County over 30% of the number of people polled, Dutchess and Columbia Counties should have accounted for 25% of the people polled. Read More

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