CQ Guest Columnist Tracie Powell finds it difficult to get excited over the Virginia governor’s race, as each candidate’s record does little to distinguish itself:

 

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Commissioner Robert LiMandri and members of his staff joined Habitat-NYC and
future Habitat homeowners to build affordable homes in Brooklyn last
week.
 

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New York City Council
Member

David G. Greenfield

44th District,
Brooklyn

In Sunday's paper. Referring to Illinois, which should hit the wall earlier than average, “We’re within a few years of having some of the pension funds run out of money...Funding for the schools is going to be cut radically. Funding for Medicaid. As these things all mount up, there’s going to be a lot of outrage...paying public pensions straight out of general revenue would be ruinous. In Illinois’s case, it would consume about half the state’s cash every year, bringing other vital state services to a standstill.” Of course it isn't just the pensions. It's the federal, state and local debts. It's the infratructure that hasn't been maintained. It's the lower pay and benefits younger generations receive, in both the public and private sectors, and will continue to receive when they get older -- and face possible deprivation to pay for the prior generations than spent decades in leisure on borrowed money.

The benefit of foresight is that I'm already started moving beyond outrage to resignation.

Every four years, various political pundits overhype that year’s contests for governor. Thinking readers won’t think the choice of the chief executive of large states are important enough, these experts must explain to us that who wins an election for governor can be crucial in determining who wins the next Presidential election.

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MAYOR BLOOMBERG, TED KENNEDY, JR. HONOR HEALTH CARE HEROES AS PRIMARY CARE TAKES HEALTH REFORM SPOTLIGHT
More than 450 celebrate at PCDC Spring Gala

  

I
inadvertently forgot to forward this press release and letter to Archbishop
Dolan to you. The Staten Island Advance received copies this morning.  You
can learn more about me by going to my two FACEBOOK pages: Louis la Guardia
Wein and Tea Partier 4 Congress - still under construction (you must type in
the latter in the search box on the Louis la Guardia Wein site).   I
can be reached at: teapartier4congress@gmail.com.
  The full letter to Archbishop Dolan is attached and is much more thoughtful,
comprehensive and sensitive to the issue. But it remains true that the "sins
of the father visit themselves on their children regardless of how innocent
they may be."