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ELECTIONS 2006:
Preserving Democracy by Informing the Voters
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CJA's
AUGUST 25, 2006 MEMO TO NEW YORK MEDIA:
EDITORIAL BOARDS & NEWS DEPARTMENTS --
Your Upcoming Editorial Endorsements & Ongoing Election Coverage:
The Races for NY Governor, U.S. Senator from NY, & NY Attorney General
The New York Times New York Law Journal
Gannett News Service
The New York Post Syracuse Post-Standard
Associated Press
The New York Daily News
The Wall
Street Journal
Metroland
The New York Sun
The Village Voice
BInghamton
Press & Sun-Bulletin
Long Island Newsday
The Amsterdam News
Elmira Star
Gazette
Westchester Journal
News
The Ithaca Journal
Black Star News
Albany Times Union
Middletown
Times Herald-Record
Martinelli
Publications
Rochester
Democrat & Chronicle
Oneonta Daily Star
The Buffalo News
Utica
Observer-Dispatch
NY1News
Poughkeepsie Journal News
Buffalo Beast
News 12
Westchester
The New York Observer
New York Magazine
News 12 Long Island
WCBS-News Channel 2-NY
WNBC-News Channel 4-NY
Further
& Follow-Up Correspondence
Regional News
Network
WABC-News Channel 7-NY
CJA's OCTOBER 27, 2006 MEMO TO NEW YORK MEDIA
NEWS DEPARTMENTS & EDITORIAL BOARDS:
[also
provided to Hevesi & Callaghan campaigns -- October 31, 2006]
The Implications of the Hevesi Scandal -- and the More
Significant Yet-To-Be-Reported Scandals that will throw open the
non-competitive statewide races for Governor and Senator -- & the
hardly-competitive race for Attorney General -- for the benefit of all New
Yorkers
The New York
Times
Associated Press
Gannett
News Service
The New York
Sun
The New
York Post
The New
York Daily News
Albany
Times Union
Newsday
New
York Observer
The
Wall Street Journal
The
Village Voice
New
York Magazine
The Journal News
CJA's OCTOBER 30, 2006 MEMO TO NEW YORK MEDIA
NEWS DEPARTMENTS & EDITORIAL BOARDS:
[also
provided to Hevesi & Callaghan campaigns -- October 31, 2006]
The Hevesi Scandal -- and the Platform for Deceit upon the
Public it is Providing to Attorney General Spitzer & Governor Pataki, among
others
The New York
Times
Associated Press
Gannett
News Service
The New York
Sun
The New
York Post
The New
York Daily News
Albany
Times Union
Newsday
New
York Observer
The
Wall Street Journal
The
Village Voice
New
York Magazine
The Journal News
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CJA's OCTOBER 11, 2006 MEMO TO MEDIA OUTSIDE NEW YORK:
NEWS DEPARTMENTS, EDITORIAL BOARDS, & COMMENTATORS --
Your 2006 Election Coverage & Ongoing Speculations
about the Presidential Races of 2008 and Beyond
The
Washington Post
The
Washington Times
USA TODAY
The
Baltimore Sun
The
Philadelphia Inquirer
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The
Christian Science Monitor
The
Hartford Courant
The
Star-Ledger (New Jersey)
The Record (New
Jersey)
Chicago
Tribune
Chicago
Sun-Times
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Los
Angeles Times
The
Sacramento Bee
San Francisco Chronicle
Seattle
Times
The Oregonian
The
Providence Journal
The Miami
Herald
Orlando
Sentinel
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
St.
Petersburg Times
The News
& Observer (North Carolina)
The Boston
Globe
Boston
Herald
Houston
Chronicle
Dallas Morning News
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Cincinnati Enquirer
Huntsville Times (Alabama)
New
Hampshire Union Leader
The
Charlotte Observer (North Carolina)
The
Columbus Dispatch
The
Concord Monitor
Kansas
City Star
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Salt
Lake Tribune
The Toledo
Blade
The
Weekly Standard
The
American Conservative
The
American Spectator
The New
Republic
The
American Prospect
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CJA's SEPTEMBER 5, 2006 MEMO TO NIEMAN FOUNDATION FOR JOURNALISM
AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY & ITS WATCHDOG PROJECT --
"The Courage to Implement Your 'Practical Suggestions
for Improving American Political Coverage in 2006'"
CJA's
September 5, 2006 transmittal memo to indicated recipients: Shorenstein Center
on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, Columbia University Graduate School
of Journalism, Project for Excellence in Journalism, Journalism Professors Jay
Rosen and Philip Meyer --
"Academic Responsibilities, Journalistic Ethics & Civic Duty"
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Memorable & Not-Followed
Advice
-- ON THE NEW YORK STATE ATTORNEY
GENERAL: "...voters need to know how candidates
intend to handle the job's meat-and-potatoes work of defending the state against
legal actions"
[New
York Times, September 17, 1994 editorial,
"After the Primaries: New York's Mystery General"]
-- ON CAMPAIGN ISSUES: "Candidates running
campaigns are always pure opportunists in terms of what they talk about"
[New
York Times, October 23, 1994 Week in Review article,
"Running on Empty: Where Did All the Issues Go?",
quoting professor of political science]
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Debates:
AUGUST 30, 2006 DEBATE
BETWEEN WOULD-BE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL,
Regional News Network
"CORRUPTION
WITHIN THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OWN OFFICE" -- CJA's QUESTIONS FOR THE
CANDIDATES FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL, posted on the Regional News
Network's "Live Message Board" on August 30, 2006 in response to its solicitation of questions for
the candidates
SEPTEMBER 3, 2006 DEBATE
BETWEEN WOULD-BE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL
WNBC-TV "News Forum", hosted by Gabe Pressman
(taped September 1st)
August 31,
2006 e-mail to Gabe Pressman
SEPTEMBER 6, 2006 DEBATE
BETWEEN WOULD-BE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL,
co-sponsored by The New York Law Journal
& the Association of the Bar of the City of New York
*"QUESTIONS FOR THE CANDIDATES"
--
CJA's
SEPTEMBER 1, 2006 MEMO-LETTER TO WOULD-BE ATTORNEYS GENERAL, including ANDREW
CUOMO & JEANINE PIRRO
e-mail & fax receipts
-- sent additionally to
THE NEW YORK TIMES:
Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., Bill Keller, Jill Abramson, Gail Collins & Editorial
Board, Alan M. Siegel (retired), Byron Calame, Marek Fuchs, Jonathan Landman,
Philip Taubman, Gerald Mullany, Raymond Hernandez, Jonathan P. Hicks, Patrick
Healy, Clyde Haberman
-- given, in hand, on September 6,
2006, immediately following City Bar Debate, together with copies of
CJA's JUNE 20, 2006 MEMORANDUM-LETTER TO THE A.G. CANDIDATES, to:
Wayne Barrett, Senior Editor, The Village Voice
James Odato, Albany Times Union
Glenn Blain, The Journal News, Gannett
Dan Wise & Editor-in-Chief Kris Fischer, New York Law Journal
ALSO -- to Andrew Cuomo's aide, who refused to allow it to be given to Mr. Cuomo
directly
OCTOBER 12, 2006 DEBATE
BETWEEN WOULD-BE GOVERNORS ELIOT SPITZER & JOHN FASO,
presented by WNED-TV & The Buffalo News
in partnership with Association of Public Broadcasting Stations of NY
CJA's
August 28, 2006 memo to The Buffalo News
-- Editorial Page Editor Stephen Bell & Political Reporter Robert McCarthy --
"RE: YOUR UPCOMING EDITORIAL ENDORSEMENTS & ONGOING ELECTION COVERAGE: The Races
for New York Governor, U.S. Senator from New York, and New York Attorney
General"
CJA's
October 11, 2006 e-mail/fax to Robert McCarthy, Buffalo News --
"Subject: Tomorrow's Gubernatorial Debate between Spitzer & Faso";
correction
CJA's October 11,
2006 e-mail to James Ranney, News Director/WNED Radio -- "Subject:
Tomorrow's Gubernatorial Debate between Spitzer & Faso"
James Ranney's
October 11, 2006 e-mail -- "Subject: Re: Tomorrow's Gubernatorial Debate
between Spitzer & Faso"
CJA's October 11,
2006 e-mail to James Ranney -- "Subject: Thank You! -- Re: Tomorrow's
Gubernatorial Debate between Spitzer & Faso"
CJA's October 12, 2006 e-mail to Mark Leitner & Karen
DeWitt -- "Subject: Asking Questions Addressed to EVIDENCE: Tonight's
Gubernatorial Debate between Spitzer & Faso"
OCTOBER 17, 2006 DEBATE
BETWEEN WOULD-BE ATTORNEYS GENERAL ANDREW CUOMO & JEANINE PIRRO,
presented by WXXI-Radio & Television & The Democrat & Chronicle
CJA's August 25, 2006 memo to Rochester
Democrat & Chronicle -- Editorial Page Editor James F. Lawrence &
Political Reporter Joe Spector -- "RE: YOUR UPCOMING EDITORIAL ENDORSEMENTS &
ONGOING ELECTION COVERAGE: The Races for New York Governor, U.S. Senator from
New York, and New York Attorney General"
CJA's
October 17, 2006 memo to WXXI Radio, WXXI-TV, & The Democrat & Chronicle
-- "QUESTIONS FOR THE CANDIDATES FOR NEW YORK STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL"
OCTOBER 20, 2006 DEBATE
BETWEEN SENATOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON & JOHN SPENCER,
presented by Time-Warner channels, NY-1 NEWS
CJA's October 17, 2006 memo to Bob Hardt, Political News
Director/NY-1 NEWS -- "RE: THE DEBATE BETWEEN SENATOR HILLARY RODHAM
CLINTON & JOHN SPENCER: Scheduled to Air at 7 p.m. on October 20th"
CJA's October 18, 2006
memo to Bob Hardt -- "RE: AGAIN: THE DEBATE BETWEEN SENATOR HILLARY RODHAM
CLINTON & JOHN SPENCER: October 20th at 7 p.m."
OCTOBER 22, 2006 DEBATE
BETWEEN SENATOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON & JOHN SPENCER,
presented by WABC-TV News
CJA's
August 28, 2006 memo to The Buffalo News
-- Editorial Page Editor Stephen Bell & Political Reporter Robert McCarthy --
"RE: YOUR UPCOMING EDITORIAL ENDORSEMENTS & ONGOING ELECTION COVERAGE: The Races
for New York Governor, U.S. Senator from New York, and New York Attorney
General"
CJA's October 18, 2006
memo to WABC-TV News: News Anchor Dave Ritter, Political Reporter Dave
Evans, Political Editor Seung Suh -- RE: DEBATE BETWEEN SENATOR HILLARY RODHAM
CLINTON & JOHN SPENCER: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22nd at 9 a.m."
CJA's October 20, 2006
memo to WABC-TV News:
News Anchor Dave Ritter, Political Reporter Dave Evans, Political Editor Seung
Suh -- RE: DEBATE BETWEEN SENATOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON & JOHN SPENCER: SUNDAY,
OCTOBER 22nd at 9 a.m."
[indicated copies to NYS League of Women
Voters & Buffalo News Political Reporter Robert McCarthy]
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OCTOBER 24, 2006:
IN RESPONSE TO YOUR SOLICITATION --
Request for suggestions by The New York Times' political
blog Empire Zone
& CJA's response
As POSTED by The Empire Zone !
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Searching for Champions:
CJA's January 18, 2006
letter to Kenneth Langone, outspoken Wall Street critic of Attorney General
Eliot Spitzer
-- "RE: Informing the Voters: Attorney General Spitzer's
readily-verifiable corruption in office, long covered up by the press"
[Certified Mail/RRR & Fax
Receipts]
CJA's January 24, 2006 letter to
Kenneth Langone
-- "RE: Election 2006: Informing the Voters by Informing the Candidates"
CJA's January 27, 2006 memo to Jon
Cohen, candidate for Lieutenant Governor
-- "RE: DON'T GIVE UP!" -- summary overview of how the SAME
documentary evidence brings down the candidacies of Would-Be Governor Eliot
Spitzer, Would-Be Lieutenant Governor David Paterson, Would-Be Re-Elected
Senator & Next President Hillary Rodham Clinton -- and her former counsel,
Would-Be Lieutenant Governor Leecia Eve
*CJA's FEBRUARY
3, 2006 LETTER TO JOHN SPENCER, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR THE U.S. SENATE
-- "RE: Informing the Voters: Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's
readily-verifiable corruption in office, as evidenced by her record on
judicial selection and discipline -- covered up by an election-rigging press"
[Certified Mail/RRR &
E-Mail Receipts]
[copies
to THE NEW YORK TIMES: Bill Keller, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., Jill Abramson,
Allan M. Siegal, Jonathan Landman, Philip Taubman, Gail Collins (for sharing
with ALL Editorial Board members), Marek Fuchs, and Raymond Hernandez]
CJA's April 10, 2006 letter to B.
Thomas Golisano, founder of the Independence Party & three-time gubernatorial
candidate -- "RE: Championing Reform and the Public Interest: Using your
"bully pulpit" to expose the readily-verifiable documentary evidence of
Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's corruption in office, long covered up by the
press" [Express
Mail & Fax Receipts]
-- CJA's June
21, 2002 letter to Mr. Golisano
-- CJA's July
19, 2002 letter to Mr. Golisano's gubernatorial campaign policy director
-- CJA's August
2, 2002 letter to Mr. Golisano
CJA's April 10, 2006 letter to
Kenneth Langone -- "RE: Informing the Voters: Attorney General Spitzer's
readily-verifiable corruption in office, long covered up by the press"
[Certified Mail/RRR & Fax
Receipts]
CJA's April
11, 2006 e-mail to The New York Times' "Talk to the Newsroom: Executive Editor
Bill Keller" -- "RE: QUESTIONS FOR PUBLIC RESPONSE BY BILL KELLER"
-- given, in-hand, to Managing Editor for Newsgathering
Jill Abramson, on April 18, 2006, as equally applicable to her
CJA's April 26, 2006 letter to Tom
Suozzi, Candidate for the Democratic Nomination for Governor -- "RE:
Informing the Voters: Attorney General Spitzer's readily-verifiable
corruption in office, long covered up by the press" [Certified
Mail/RR & Fax Receipts]
CJA's June 19, 2006 letter to Kathleen Troia McFarland, Would-Be Republican
Nominee for the U.S. Senate from New York -- "RE: Informing the Voters: Senator
Hillary Rodham Clinton's readily-verifiable corruption in office, as
evidenced by her record on judicial selection and discipline -- concealed by
John Spencer and an election-rigging press"
[Certified
Mail/RRR, E-Mail, & Fax Receipts]
[indicated
copies to THE NEW YORK TIMES:
Bill Keller, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., Jill Abramson, Alan Siegel, Jonathan Landman,
Philip Taubman, Gail Collins (individually and
for the Editorial Board), Byron Calame, Raymond Hernandez, Marek Fuchs,
Patrick Healy]
CJA's June 19, 2006 letter to Jonathan Tasini, Would-Be Democratic Nominee
for the U.S. Senate from New York -- "RE: Informing the Voters: Senator Hillary
Rodham Clinton's readily-verifiable corruption in office, as evidenced by
her record on judicial selection and discipline -- covered up by an
election-rigging press, including The New York Times" [Certified
Mail & E-Mail Receipts]
[copies to
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Bill Keller,
Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., Jill Abramson, Alan Siegel, Jonathan Landman, Philip Taubman,
Gail Collins (individually and
for the Editorial Board), Byron Calame, Raymond Hernandez, Marek Fuchs,
Patrick Healy]
*CJA's JUNE
20, 2006 MEMO-LETTER TO THE CANDIDATES FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL:
ANDREW CUOMO, Mark Green, Charlie King, Sean Patrick Maloney --
& JEANINE PIRRO
-- "RE:
Informing the Voters: Whether You Will Confront Readily-Verifiable
Casefile Proof of Corruption by New York Attorneys General, Past and Present,
and Discharge Your Mandatory Professional and Ethical Obligations with Respect Thereto,
Including by Criminal Prosecutions" [Certified
Mail/RRR, E-Mail & Fax Receipts]
[copies to
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Bill Keller, Arthur Sulzberger,
Jr., Jill Abramson, Alan Siegel, Jonathan Landman, Philip Taubman, Gail Collins (individually and
for the Editorial Board), Byron Calame, Raymond Hernandez, Marek Fuchs,
Patrick Healy]
*CJA's JUNE
26, 2006 LETTER TO JOHN FASO, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR
-- "RE: Informing the Voters: Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's
readily-verifiable corruption in office -- covered up by an
election-rigging press" [Certified
Mail/RRR, E-Mail & Fax Receipts]
[copies to
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Bill Keller, Arthur Sulzberger,
Jr., Jill Abramson, Alan Siegel, Jonathan Landman, Philip Taubman, Gail Collins (individually and
for the Editorial Board), Byron Calame, Raymond Hernandez, Marek Fuchs,
Patrick Healy]
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THE CANDIDATES:
Would-Be Governor: Attorney General Eliot Spitzer
SEE:
Press Protectionism of A.G. Spitzer
Paper
Trail of A.G. Spitzer's Corruption in Office
Would-Be Lieutenant Governor: NYS Senate Minority Leader David Paterson
SEE:
Paper
Trail of
Senator Paterson's Corruption in Office
Would-Be Re-Elected Senator -- and Next President -- Hillary
Rodham Clinton
SEE:
Press
Protectionism of Senators Schumer & Clinton
Paper Trail of Senator Clinton's
Corruption in Office
SEE also, Clinton's former counsel
LEECIA EVE -- now
supporting the Spitzer-Paterson ticket,
after having dropped her candidacy for
the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor
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SUING THE NEW YORK TIMES
FOR ELECTION-RIGGING
for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and
New York Attorney
General Eliot Spitzer, among others
PRESS RELEASE #1: March 22, 2006 onward
"FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND PUBLIC INTEREST LAWSUIT vs THE NEW
YORK TIMES
IN VINDICATION OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT"
PRESS RELEASE #2: June 9, 2006 onward
PUBLIC INTEREST LAWSUIT vs THE NEW YORK TIMES SEEKS JUDGMENT AGAINST IT,
INCLUDING REMOVAL OF ITS FRONT-PAGE MOTTO
'ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT'
AS
A FALSE AND MISLEADING ADVERTISING CLAIM"
PRESS RELEASE #3:
August 22, 2006 onward
COURT DECISION IN PUBLIC INTEREST LAWSUIT vs THE NEW YORK
TIMES CONFIRMS THE TIMES' SELF-INTEREST IN JUDICIAL CORRUPTION
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