REX SMITH
&
here
"retired in 2021 after 26 years with the Times Union,
serving 18 of
those years as the newspaper’s editor.
July 24, 2002
"Rex
Smith Named Editor of the Albany Times Union"
UNDER CONSTRUCTION --
At Albany Times Union
since 1995
Co-Host of WAMC Media Project
click here for:
correspondence with ALBANY TIMES UNION since 1993
Below are the e-mails sent to Smith --
2007
CJA's March 6, 2007 e-mail to,
inter alia, Smith --
"Tuesday, March 6, 2007 Confirmation Hearing -- Chief Judge
Judith Kaye"
SEE:
Judicial Selection-NYS-"Merit Selection"-NY Court of
Appeals-Kaye
2013
cc:
CJA's April 30, 2013 email to Editorial Page Editor
Jochnowitz --
"Clarifying &/or Retracting Your
Albany Times Union Editorial -- 'An unfair pay impasse',
4/29/13"
Jochnowitz' April 30, 2013 e-mail
CJA's April 30, 2013 e-mail
-- "Thanks..."
CJA's
June 21, 2013 e-mail to Smith
--
"Times-Union coverage of the bill creating a special
commission on compensation of managerial and confidential state
employees"
cc:
CJA's October 2, 2013 e-mail to Seiler
-- "A propos of your September
28th Capitol Confidential blog 'Cuomo vetoes M/C/ paybill; OMCE
is upset' -- to which there are 123 comments, currently --"
-- attaching:
CJA's June 25, 2013 letter to Gov.
Cuomo
2018
cc:
CJA's March 1, 2018 e-mail to
Legislative Gazette Editor James Gormley
--
"Training
Journalists, Consistent with the Legislative Gazette's Mission --
Request for Investigation & Report of CJA's Citizen-Testimony
at the
Jan. 30, 2018 and Feb. 5, 2018 Budget Hearings"
CJA's March 1, 2018
e-mail to Legislative Gazette Editor Gormley
& WAMC Media Project Co-Host Rex Smith --
"Thank
you, Mr. Chartock: Legislative Gazette -- & WAMC Media Project" [Chartock]
cc:
CJA's March 7, 2018 e-mail to Luke Parsnow/Syracuse New Times --
"The
Media's Agenda' It's NOT about truth -- and I can prove it. Will you
report -- and break a MAJOR news story that will upend this year's
electoral races for governor, attorney general, comptroller, & every
legislative seat?"
cc:
CJA's April
6, 2018 e-mail to Brian
Nearing/Albany Times Union --
"Verifying the TRUTH of Sinclair's 'fake news' corporate-mandated
message is EASY. Here's the EVIDENCE -- "
April 2, 2018
"Corporate
mandated 'fake news' messaging
backlash hits Capital Region, CBS-6"
(Brian Nearing)
April 2, 2018
"The
least they could do"
(Editorial)
April 5, 2018
"Sinclair
flap reveals local news value"
Rex Smith
April 8, 2018 -- WAMC "MEDIA PROJECT"
CJA's April 11, 2018 e-mail to Smith --
"The
TRUTH of Sinclair's 'fake news' corporate-mandated message -- & the
'game-changing' electoral significance of my media-suppressed testimony
at the Legislature's Jan. 30/Feb 5, 2018 budget hearings"
cc:
CJA's April 11, 2018 e-mail to Smith --
"Time to Update the
Albany Times Union website -- The TRUTH of
Sinclair's 'fake news'
corporate-mandated message -- & the 'game-changing' electoral
significance of my media-suppressed testimony at the Legislature's Jan.
30/Feb 5, 2018 budget hearings"
cc:
CJA's April 16, 2018 e-mail
--
"March
29, 2018 'CORRUPTION ALERT:
Does Albany 'Outsider' Cynthia Nixon think
the 'three/four men in a room' budget deal-making, happening now & behind-cosed-doors, is
constitutional? How about The New York Times?"
-- click here for forwarded
March 29, 2018 "Corruption Alert:..."
CJA's August 28, 2018 e-mail to,
inter alia, Smith
&
to Smith
"Behind-the-scenes of tonight's
Democratic AG debate -- Challenging the brazen lies &
distortion of the AG's constitutional function -- WITH
EVIDENCE"
CJA' September 5, 2018 e-mail to,
inter alia, Smith --
"BEHIND-THE-SCENES:
Tomorrow's Democratic AG Candidates Debate at Cooper Union -- 'A Point
of Disclosure' as to Preet Bharara & Questions for the Candidates"
2019
cc:
May 1, 2019 e-mail to Museum of
Political Corruption
--
"Achieving
the Goal of Today's May 1, 2019 Forum -- 'Finding Our Way:
Rebuilding Ethics in New York State'"
CJA's August 21, 2019 e-mail to, inter alia, Smith
--
"Is New York's new Public Campaign Financing &
Election Commission Constitutional?"
CJA's September 4, 2019 e-mail to, inter alia, Smith --
"ALERT: NYS Public
Campaign Financing & Election Commission is INACCESSIBLE
TO THE PUBLIC"
cc:
CJA's October 22, 2019 e-mail to
New York News Publishers Association President --
"Are you REFUSING to provide the requested info about
the awards the NY Nes Publishers Association awards its
members?"
CJA's December 18, 2019 e-mail to, inter alia, Smith --
"ALERT: 4pm TODAY meeting of the Commission on Legislative,
Judicial & Executive Compensation"
2020
cc:
CJA's January 16, 2020 e-mail to Times Union Reporter
Chris Bragg --
"LEAD: What was going on
behind the closed-doors appointment of Shoshanah Bewlay
as execuitive direcor of the Committee on Open
Government is NOW before her, testing her fitness"
January 14, 2020
"State's
new 'open government' expert was hired in secret"
Albany Times Union (Chris Bragg) &
here
January 15, 2020
"Andrew
Cuomo doesn't believe in sunlight"
Albany
Times Union (Chris Churchill)
of note -- January 21, 2020
"Casey
Seiler named Times Union editor"
Albany Times
Union Michael Williams)
cc:
CJA's March 31, 2020 e-mail --
"Your article 'Cuomo Helped Get New York into This Mess' (The Nation,
3/30/20) is MISSING the Role of the Legislature & the NY Court of Appeals,
among others -- & MISREPRESENTS the State Budget"
cc:
CJA's April 13, 2020 e-mail to TU Editorial Page Editor Jochnowitz
-- "Paying Tribute to
Richard
-- Your Viewpoint Column 'Thanks for all the arguments,
Richard Brodsky (April 8, 2020)"
April 8,
2020 Times Union viewpoint column
by Editorial Page Editor
Jay Jochnowitz:
“Thanks
for all the arguments, Richard Brodsky”
April
8, 2020 Times Union obituary
"Former
Assemblyman Richard Brodsky dies at 73"
(Cayla Harris)
March 16, 2020
Times Union editorial “Don’t
rush state budget”
April 3, 2020 Times
Union article
"Paid
sick leave, flavored e-cig ban, bail changes in state budget"?
(
Harris, Amanda Fries, Chris Bragg)
What
Brodsky had to say about Silver v. Pataki --
Brodsky's May 31,
2015 Albany Times Union column
“In
praise of Albany's Big Ugly'"
Brodsky's
December 6, 2018
City Limits column
“
Fixing
NY's Dictatorial Budget Process Is The Reform We Most Need"
Brodsky's participation in June
16, 2015 forum
“Budgets
and the Balance of Power: The Lasting Impact of Silver v.
Pataki
and How It Shapes the Future of Government in New
York State"
Brodsky's participation
in May 30, 2019 forum
"New
York's Budget Process: Time for a Rebalance?"
cc:
CJA's July 3, 2020 e-mail to
Jochnowitz
--
"The Albany Times Union's duty
to rescind its June 17, 2020 editorial 'Albany County
DA: Soares' & to take other corrective steps to protect the
public & the integrity of elections"
Albany Times Union's June 17, 2020 editorial:
"Albany
County D.A.: Soares"
Included direct link:
CJA's webpage of the 4 prior complaints
D.A. Soares has been "sitting on"
July 3, 2020 automated acknowledgment from
tureaderrep@timesunion.com
July 3, 2020 automated acknowledgment from
TUcommentary@hearstcorp.com
CJA's September 8, 2020
e-mail to, inter alia, Smith
--
"
AGAIN: The Albany Times Union's duty
to rescind its June 17, 2020 editorial 'Albany County
DA: Soares' & to take other corrective steps to protect the
public & the integrity of elections"
CJA's September 18, 2020 e-mail to,
inter alia, Smith --
"Albany County Elections 2020 -- Informing Voters
with EVIDENCE: public corruption/grand jury complaint vs
Albany County's 7 state legislators -- 6 running for
re-election -- which D.A. Soares, also running for
re-election, is 'sitting on'"
cc:
--
CJA's September 30, 2020 e-mail
to Albany County Non-Incumbent Legislative Candidates
--
"GOOD NEWS! You have an
open-&-shut public corruption issue that will WIN you election
--
& demonstrate your fitness for public service"
cc:
--
CJA's October 5, 2020 e-mail to Saratoga County League of
Women Voters --
"Saratoga County League of Women
Voters Candidate Forums:questions for state Senate &
Assembly candidates, determinative of fitness for public
service"
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