Don DeBar's Blog

On March 17, 2003 - three days before the invasion of Iraq began - I visited the office of Rep. Nita Lowey to inform her that there were no "Weapons of Mass Destruction" in Iraq. This is what happened: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-s0youbQpc

Click here - http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2010101027006 - look at your community's ballot. Column 12 is for "Representative in Congress" and at the bottom of the column is the box for "Write-In" - PRINT "Don DeBar" UNDER the words "Write-In" in column 12 to vote for Don DeBar for Congress.

After ducking out of the League of Women Voters debate on October 19, Lowey and her hand-picked "Republican write-in candidate" Cortes DeRussy were the only candidates invited the next day to the Journal News Editorial Board for a "debate" that more resembled a race to the bottom, policy-wise. We have been experiencing a similar problem - i.e., a news blackout - with News12 (which has yet to even mention our campaign). Although we announced this campaign a month before DeRussy, and although we actually have major policy differences with Lowey over such issues as the wars (we want out NOW!), the economy (we want to put the money in the hands of the people and not the banks, and want the people's debt to be reduced by the amount given in bailouts), we were not invited to the JN "debate". In fact, except for a blog posting by Marcela Rojas on the Journal News website on September 30, our campaign has not been mentioned once in their pages. DeRussy, howev...