#FF @PPHPActivist aka Planned Parenthood

There are few organizations who do more good work than Planned Parenthood.  Even as Republican politicians around the country try to put them out of business, they're doing important things to protect women's health--beyond just providing abortions to women in need.  Has Carlucci ever gotten them state funding? I don't know for sure, but I bet he hasn't because he cares more about the Republicans than good people doing good work.

Throwback Thursday – Carlucci took lots of money from crooks

It turns out that Carlucci being involved with crooks didn’t start when he was elected, it started even before he was elected.  Back in 2010 County Executive Vanderhoef said:

“Senator Sampson has personally become involved in helping David Carlucci in his bid for the Senate. Sampson has steered State Democrat Senate Campaign Committee funding to David’s campaign.”

No wonder he’s had to pay a criminal defense lawyer $17,000.

How Much Is Carlucci Worth? Not Much.

I was trying to Google how much Carlucci gets paid and found a really interesting article at a website called Gotham Gazette about how much legislators make outside of their salaries.  It included a link to a state website showing every Senator and Assemblyperson and how much they make outside of their jobs.  I looked at Carlucci and he really isn't worth much, in more ways than one.

The courts speak, the twits stop tweeting

It’s been kind of quiet since the judges in Albany ruled that Dagan LaCorte LaCan’t run for County Executive (h/t to the Rockland County Times).  The people who were running around like a couple of crazed frat boys bragging on twitter about how they were going to win have either shut up altogether or stopped talking about the election.  Here are a couple of examples:

First up is a doofus who works for Carlucci (and whose ears look like they are probably too big to fit inside my VW Golf) named Jason Elan got into a fight on July 23rd with some guy from the Journal News:

@LoHudLegal Who is saying there are violations? Your words, not mine. Fried's accusations to petitions are baseless

Hey stupid—who says there are violations? How about the elections commissioners and two appeals courts.

Then there’s Mr. Constipated-look himself, Dagan LaCorte.  His last tweet was:

I'll have a statement at 2pm on the Court of Appeals affirming the procedural decision knocking me off the ballot for the Democratic Primary

Nothing since then.  And nothing on his website (he’s still asking for donations, though).

#MemeMonday - The only thing grosser than Anthony Weiner

#FF @WendyDavisTexas - a State Senator we can believe in

Like everyone, I was captivated by Texas State Senator Wendy Davis, who waged a one-woman filibuster against the Texas Legislature when they were passing restrictions on a woman's right to choose.  Comparing her courage to that weasel Carlucci and it just makes me sick.

Carlucci Ignores the Majority of People

That upstate website State of Politics is really full of useful information.  Apparently someupstate college did a survey and it turns out (no surprise here) that only 28% of people support what Carlucci did in cutting the Roe v. Wade out of the Women’s Equality Act.  54% of people support the full Democratic bill that Carlucci helped kill.

“By a two-to-one margin, New Yorkers would prefer to see the Assembly’s version of the Women’s Equality Act become law this year, not the Senate’s,” Greenberg said.

“With the exception of Republicans and conservatives – a plurality of both groups support the Senate version – a majority or plurality of every other demographic group supports the Assembly version.”

I hope everyone remembers that next year when Carlucci tries to run for re-election

Another Rat Leaves the Sinking SS Carlucci

As I’ve said before, some of my best information about Carlucci comes from the people who work for him, most of who secretly can’t stand him. 

The latest thing they told me is that yet another person in the office got fed up with the little weasel and left.  She joins Gemma Bianchi, Erin Dennin, Sephora Jean-Leger, Stephen Papas, and Scott Solomon—all of who worked in his office at some point but are now gone (thanks to the person in Carlucci’s office who told me how to find the Senate Expenditure Report—I’ll have more fun with that another time).

Of the 16 people who worked for Carlucci since he took office six have now left.  That’s nearly 40%!


Rumor has it more of them will leave before NARAL runs someone against him next year because they know he’s a loser.

LaCan’t Even Get on the Ballot

After reading about how Carlucci’s candidate tried to break the law by running without meeting the legal requirements, I decided I’m voting for this David Fried guy because he had the guts to stand up to Carlucci’s little weasel buddy.

Excerptsfrom the Rockland County Times story:

An Appeals Court reversed the NY Supreme Court decision allowing Dagan Lacorte onto the Democratic primary ballot Wednesday. The appeal panel, which ruled 4-0 against Lacorte, said the validating petition was not sufficiently “particularized” to give notice of which signatures he claimed were improperly invalidated by the Rockland County Board of Elections.

The challenge of Lacorte was brought by electoral foe David Fried, who Lacorte has relentlessly attacked in recent mailings. “Today’s ruling demonstrates the importance of an independent judiciary and the critical role it serves in a healthy democracy. This has been a long, but important process. We collected signatures the right way, relying on door-to-door volunteers talking directly with Rockland Democrats,” Fried said, making light of the fact Lacorte collected many signatures at local supermarkets.

If it is indeed the end of the line for Lacorte the failure to get on the ballot is a shocking anti-climax for the candidate who had raised the most money of any of the four major contenders. Lacorte’s campaign started off rocky early on, when in January he wrong-texted a plan to spy on David Fried directly to Mr. Fried himself, a story which the Rockland County Times famously exposed under the headline “LaCaught.”

Many Rocklanders have continued to refer to Lacorte as simply “Lacaught” since that time. He also caused some controversy by relying heavily on former Assemblyman Ryan Karben for campaign advice and over $100,000 in campaign mailing services.

#MemeMonday What do you call a group of losers edition

I hope you all saw the news that the constipated-looking guy Carlucci supports for County Executive was kicked out again.  Serves him right for sucking up to Carlucci.

#FF @ProChoiceNY - help them beat Carlucci

I've written a few times about why you should support NARAL.  Their website describes them best:

NARAL Pro-Choice New York is a political and advocacy organization whose mission is to guarantee every woman the right to make personal decisions regarding the full range of reproductive choices, including preventing unintended pregnancy, bearing healthy children, and choosing legal abortion.

I'm supporting NARAL because they are protecting my rights and willing to go after Carlucci.  Click here to find out more about them and click here to support them

#TBT ThrowbackThursday: Carlucci Responsible for Rockland Going Broke

I never realized that the reason Rockland is going broke is that Carlucci wouldn’t push legislation to balance the books until I read this article from last year.  Look at what the County Executive had to say:

“We regret that State Senator Carlucci was unwilling to fight for the financial stability of Rockland County.”

And

“Moody’s downgrade is a direct result of his unwillingness to work with us to close the budget gap.”

I guess one reason that Carlucci became a patsy for the Republicans was so that they would stop exposing his role in driving Rockland bankrupt.

Lawyer at Carlucci’s law firm stole the election from Al Gore

I looked into the law firm that Carlucci paid $17,000 to for his role in the criminal investigation into his corrupt buddy Malcolm Smith.  It kind of makes sense that he would hire this law firm since one of the guys in charge there is a lawyer named Ted Olsen who helped George W Bush steal the 2000 Presidential electionfrom Al Gore.

Since Carlucci is already cozying up to the Republicans it’s sort of fitting that he would hire a big time Republican to help him “cooperate” with the feds.

NARAL sets the record straight

Apparently one of Carlucci's Republican buddies tried to duck responsibility for stopping the Women's Equality Act. In a column in the Journal News, Andrea Miller the President of NARAL Pro-Choice New York. You should  check it out if you missed it.

Welcome Back to #MemeMonday

I hope you enjoyed MemeWeek last week. Thanks again for all of the ideas and submissions.  I promise that I'll get to more of them as we celebrate #MemeMonday each week.

Recycling comes to MemeWeek

You may remember this photo from my very first #MemeMonday post. Recycling the picture seemed like a good way to draw MemeWeek to a close.  Don't forget that MemeMonday will be back next week on schedule so if you have any photos or suggestions send them along to me at carluccitruth@gmail.com

#tbt on Memeweek - another reader submission.

Today's it's Throwback Thursday here at the blog.  Apparently before screwing us in the State Senate, Carlucci was some kind of faceless bureaucrat at town hall.  Thanks to a reader for sending me this meme of Carlucci dreaming of his future in Albany.

MemeWeek Day 3 - our first reader submission!

I don't know who this guy is, but the person who sent it to me works with him in Carlucci's office.  Anyway he looks a lot like Stay Puft and apparently also is a "giant, lumbering paranormal monster" in real life, just like Stay Puft.  Dude, ease off on the cronuts.

MemeWeek Continues - a Salute to Carlucci's idol

Today for MemeWeek, Carlucci is honoring another politician with no respect for women. Just like his idol I think Carlucci is going down in the next election!

#MemeMonday kicks off MemeWeek!

Yesterday was Constitution of Puerto Rico Day. And even though Carlucci voted to cut Rockland in half and remove most Latinos from his district, Carlucci was out partying in typical style!

Today is the launch of something very exciting.  It's not just Shark Week on TV, it's MemeWeek on our blog.  Check back every day for a new meme and feel free to send me your ideas at carluccitruth@gmail.com

Better than Shark Week, it's Meme Week!

I don't know about you, but I love, love, love Shark Week.  Since I'm getting so many supportive emails about #MemeMonday I thought I'd combine the two.  So next week we will take a break from our regular programming and present: Meme Week.

I need your help to make it work though.  Send me your photos and ideas and help make Meme Week a success! carluccitruth@gmail.com

More Pressure on Carlucci

I wrote the other day about the New York Post report that Albany Democrats will finally run someone against Carlucci and the other weasels. Apparently the whole Democratic Party is turning on them.  That upstate website State of Politics has been really informative, and I found a story that a person from the party stated the obvious:

"a Democratic-led state Senate would increase the chances of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s agenda being made law."

Looks like Carlucci keeps getting more and more people mad at him for helping the Republican Party block legislation that's important to women.