| The event, "The Recall Revolution -- The Taking of Green Island," is a co-production of Steve and Jackie, morning hosts at WROW-AM, and the local teabaggers.
And there will a "takeover" of sorts; Green Island Mayor Ellen McNulty-Ryan will turn over the key to the village to the radio rabble-rousers for the duration of the three-hour program.
The speakers will include Republican Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, who will promote his proposal for recall of state officials as part of his campaign to try again in NY-20 (which he still does not live in, and does not include Green Island).
The only other recognizable speaker is Wade Abbott, main organizer of the various Tea Party events around here since April.
The other speakers are teabaggers who are also regular callers to Steve and Jackie.
The speakers will share one thing in common -- they will all diss Democrats in Washington and Albany, and encourage listeners to throw the Democratic bums out.
If this event is like others recently around here, they will be preaching to a choir of Obama-haters, some of them carrying signs dissing Democrats as socialists, Marxists, commies and Nazis.
McNulty-Ryan really should know better -- her brother Mike represented NY-21 for 20 years in Congress, and before that served in the state Assembly and as mayor of Green Island. And her family has been influential in Albany County Democratic politics for more than 40 years.
She was on Steve and Jackie's show this morning to promote the event, and said she is participating because she was assured that this Tea Party would be respectful, and presumably not attended by this guy who showed up at the Albany Tea Party Express show.
McNulty-Ryan explained that the entire village board (all Democrats) had appproved the event based on a "promise that this would be respectful, and nothing would get out of hand. ... If this turns out to be anything other that that, you have done exactly the same thing that you're upset with (government) officials for doing."
Whatever, on the off chance that this event is "respectful," it will still be essentially a Republican-base rally, aided and abetted by a Democratic mayor.
After McNulty-Ryan, Steve and Jackie went back to bashing Democrats -- more than an hour of trashing Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (who Mike McNulty mentored in the House) for her ACORN funding vote.
Followed by more of that on Glenn Beck's radio show.
Let me be clear, I have no problem with teabaggers getting permits for their rallies.
I do have a problem with McNulty-Ryan's active participation, on stage, in yet another anti-Obama, anti-Democrats rally.
She should, too. |
