To the editor:
It must be election time, since I have received three anonymous mailers in the past week attacking Sen. Greg Ball as somehow being “anti-women." As a senior citizen, a former chief financial officer and the mother of a young, professional, woman, I find the nature of these attacks and the demeaning "1950s style" of the mailers to be disgraceful.
Sen. Ball has a well established record of fighting for issues important to women, most notably for equal pay, combating domestic violence and supporting children and families through initiatives that extend health coverage for out-of-network costs. And he has been a key leader in ending the dysfunction in State government.
These anonymous attacks confirm for me that the reforms he has helped accomplish working with Gov. Cuomo are a threat to the many entrenched interests in Albany.
The Senator‘s opponent, Manhattan lawyer Justin Wagner, whose photo and information appears in one of the mailers, should disavow them. But that's unlikely, as Mr. Wagner has remained silent throughout the recent scandal which saw Albany Democratic leader Sheldon Silver pay over $100,000 of taxpayer funds as "hush money" to cover up sexual-harassment claims against one of his fellow Democratic legislators.
Unemployment and property taxes are still unacceptably high, and our housing prices are still declining as overburdened taxpayers continue to flee our state. With so many important issues affecting our families, I find this anonymous, underhanded form of attack to be both shameful and counterproductive. Voters deserve better!
Sincerely,
Grea J. Kulhanek
No..........Ms. Kulahanek, none of your pro-Romney, anti-women's choice, Republic party rhetoric is honest, and none of is in the best interests of ALL Americans, especially women.
You've probably never even seen the Republican Platform. The Platform states that they want to ban all abortions in this country. All, Jenga, not just make it more difficult. They want to give Personhood to zygotes which not only makes abortion illegal for rape victims but makes Invitro Fertilization illegal for women wanting babies. Romney and Ryan are the most extreme, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti middle class candidates in the history of this country and electing them would be the worst mistake the people of this country could ever make.
What gives you or anyone else the right to define what group of citizens should be allowed which rights? It amazes me that you and your ilk still have these antiquated and bigoted views of the world but really amazes me, is that you can't see your own bigotry.
"Americans Have No Idea How Few Gay People There Are" http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/05/americans-have-no-idea-how-few-gay-people-there-are/257753/
NY State Senator Greg Ball, whose pink signs are popping up again, appointed Gerard Gershonowitz to his staff as a Program Associate. Gershonowitz is the Westchester Chairman of the Log Cabin Republicans, a homosexual advocacy group. Ball also opposes the military's "don't ask, don't tell"" policy. GREG BALL WOULD HAVE VOTED TO LEGALIZE HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE IF REPUBLICAN CELEBRITIES AGREED TO CAMPAIGN FOR HIM!!! The following is from a NY Times blog last year when Greg Ball couldn't make up his mind whether homosexual marriage was a good idea: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/how-the-same-sex-marriage-deal-nearly-collapsed/?partner=rss&emc=rss It was a brazen request, gay marriage advocates thought. Senator Greg Ball, a Republican, told them that if he voted to legalize same-sex marriage, he wanted assurances that national Republican leaders would campaign for him. His top choice: former Vice President Dick Cheney. Mr. Ball, of Putnam County, eventually voted no. But he said he did not regret his request. “As far as Cheney,” he explained by e-mail, “we suggested the need to have nationally prominent conservatives ready to support moderate Republicans willing to support either civil unions or marriage equality, in tough primaries. “Hopefully, they listened, because some of these voting yes are going to have a tough re-election fight.”