Cuomo's Fishin Tournament

[cdmckane]

Ok, so Adolf Cuomo is hosting a fishing tournament on Owasco Lake on 8/23.  My wife's uncle, Sam Phillips, is the guy who went up to Cuomo at the State Fair last year with the "Cuomo's Gotta Go" shirt.  We're taking the pontoon boat out and cruising up and down the lake that day with "Cuomo's Gotta Go" and "Repeal unSAFE Act Now" signs.

 

Any and all are welcome to join us.  Bring your own boat or you can rent one from these places:

 

A-1 Marine

www.a-1boats.com

315 497 3726

  [email protected]

 

Finger Lakes Boat Rentals

www.fingerlakesboatrental.com

315-364-8663

[email protected]

 

South Shore Marina

www.ssmonowasco.net

315-497-3006

 

Owasco Marine

http://www.owascomarine.net/

(315) 258-9096

 

Let's pack this lake and let this elitist prick know he's not welcome here!

 

 

 

[landtracdeerhunter]

 Nice idea! Be careful. This could fall under a demonstration and proper paperwork "MAY" have to be filed.  I'm just saying, make sure you take all proper routes.

[growalot]

Just have your fishing licenses and some trolling rods in the water....no bodies business how one "decorates" their boat nor what style of legal "fishing" they do.....nice long slow  line of fisherman trolling the waters...

[bubba]

I met your wifes uncle there last year.  he is a great guy. I cracked up at the face the king made.

[dbHunterNY]

good luck guys.  hope it's a good turn out.

[blackradio]

I'd rather just go fishing but hey that's just me.

[bubba]

Informational get togethers at the event are being put together now ( I do not want to say protest)  We try to keep it quiet as when the king hears he changes plans.  

[rjmjr911]

He probably has minions trolling forums. That's why he always changes his plans

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[Five Seasons]

this kinda thing sucks. It's obvious this kind of event is him trying to throw a bone to those he's pissed off, and should certainly be protested. On the other, fishing is fun and tournaments are fun and protestors will just ruin it. Do proceeds go to charity or anything?

[Culvercreek hunt club]

Yeah, probably his election coffers....lol

[cdmckane]

From the press release:

In his State of the State speech today, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his second "Governor's Challenge" -- a bass fishing tournament on Owasco Lake set for Aug. 21.It will take place on a Thursday in conjunction with an Elite Series Bassmaster Tournament being held at the same time on Cayuga Lake.

The Elite Series competition, featuring the top bass anglers in the country, begins that Thursday and concludes the following Sunday.Cuomo is no stranger to bass fishing. Among his favorite spots to wet his line is Lower Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks.

Local and state officials will be invited to participate in the Governor's Challenge. Today, Cuomo invited Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Independent Democratic Conference leader Jeff Klein to join in the competition.

Cuomo's first Governor's Challenge was a 3-mile, white water rafting race held in the Indian River in the Adirondacks this past summer. The competition included a much-hyped face-off on the river between teams headed by Cuomo and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Cuomo's team won.

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[cdmckane]

I'm working on confirming the date. Both dates (8/21 & 8/23) have been reported.

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[growalot]

 

You’re welcome, Sheldon Silver.

The Assembly speaker took issue with The Post’s editorial Thursday, which suggested that he saw no urgency in holding special elections for the state Legislature’s 11 vacant seats because the newly elected members wouldn’t be there before the April 1 deadline for the state budget — and there’s not much else to do after.

“Once the budget is enacted,” Silver had said, “there isn’t a lot else” for legislators to do “between now and the end of the year.” The governor, who by law decides whether or not to call a special election, has likewise been hesitant, citing the cost.

No sooner did our editorial appear than Silver started singing an entirely different tune. Maybe it was because The Post added that if there’s really so little work for our elected representatives to do besides the budget, we should cut our state legislators’ pay and the time they spend in Albany.

The next day, Silver pressed Gov. Cuomo to call those elections, noting that many of the seats are from “underserved communities.” And he suddenly remembered legislators do have work beyond the budget.

“Members of the Assembly and Senate work hard throughout the year serving their constituents, both in their communities and in Albany during session,” he said. “We have many important issues to consider, and a strong democracy demands that New York conduct special elections as soon as possible.”

So count us delighted we’ve helped persuade the Democrat who presides over the Legislature’s lower house of the value of democracy in New York’s politics. We’re still waiting for the Democrat in the governor’s mansion to do likewise.

NEW YORK, NY - Flanked by a coalition of anti-gun violence activists and state legislators, Senator Jeff Klein (D-Bronx/Westchester) commemorated the Sandy Hook Anniversary at a rally on the City Hall Steps in Manhattan on Thursday by highlighting the tough new gun control laws passed on the first day of this year’s legislative session and by calling on other states and the federal government to adopt strong measures. The rally followed news earlier in the week that a report released by the Brady Campaign and the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence had bumped New York’s gun safety rating up from a “B” to an “A-."

 

 

ALBANY — Stung by the Legislature’s vote on gun reform, a number of frustrated Senate Republicans are now growing agitated over the likelihood their leader will further bow to Gov. Cuomo’s increasingly liberal agenda.

If the gun bill fallout is intensified by future legislative fights, it could severely threaten state Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos’ grip on the Republican conference. He is already in the precarious position of being forced to work with a wildly popular Democratic governor, while attempting to keep hold of the GOP’s only source of power in Albany by running the state senate jointly with five breakaway Democrats, who are bent on pushing a progressive program of their own.

While insiders say there has been no serious talk yet of replacing Skelos (R-L.I.), several members of his conference welcomed this column, saying it would send a needed message to Skelos not to stray too far from Republican ideals in an effort to appease Cuomo.

 

Numerous rank-and-file members said they fear they will soon be pressured into allowing many parts of Cuomo’s agenda to come to the floor for a vote — leaving them at risk of facing primary challenges in two years.

“A lot of people were upset that the gun bill came to the floor, but they gave [sKELOS]a pass given what happened in Connecticut,” one Republican senator said, referring to how the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School galvanized public opinion in favor of new gun control measures.

“But now people are wondering, What comes next? How do you deal with the next thing on Cuomo and [independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeffrey] Klein’s liberal agenda?”

As Cuomo trumpeted to great fanfare in his State of the State address earlier this month, he will push this year for passage of a host of initiatives that are anathema to Republicans but have support from the independent Democrats. They include a minimum wage hike, public financing of state political campaigns, the decriminalization of small amounts of pot, and a women’s equity package featuring an expansion of abortion rights.

“He has an agenda for the presidential nomination, he hopes,” the GOP senator said of Cuomo’s oft-speculated 2016 aspirations. “The question is how much are we as Republicans going to play along with that agenda? At some point, we’re going to have to take a stand.”

Next on Cuomo’s to-do list is likely his minimum wage proposal — bringing the hourly basement wage from $7.25 to $8.75 by July 1 — which was included in the budget plan he unveiled last week. Most insiders expect some form of an increase will pass easily if the Republicans can secure in return a tax-cut package for small businesses.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/skelos-facing-members-gripes-cuomo-agenda-article-1.1249077#ixzz2r8g80RrJ

 

 

Just a few things on the buddies he's invited...

Edited January 22, 2014 by growalot

[Culvercreek hunt club]

Just a few things on the buddies he's invited...

The only thing I wouldn't mind seeing on his buddies is about 6' of earth.

[growalot]

Can't disagree...but some ppl don't read up or get the same papers or involved in political sites...Skelos is the most telling of the 3

[ants]

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Yup.. don't be surprised if LIL King Andy is a no show. ….

[covert]

this kinda thing sucks. It's obvious this kind of event is him trying to throw a bone to those he's pissed off, and should certainly be protested. On the other, fishing is fun and tournaments are fun and protestors will just ruin it. Do proceeds go to charity or anything?

 

There's no other time to just go fishing? 

[bubba]

He did this last summer at the Waddington Bassmasters Tournament.  That is about 20 minutes from my home.  He showed up and we were waiting for him.  He even changed his route in, but we caught him.  he made a speech about how this was a great boost for the north country.  He then announced he was moving it out of the north country to the finger lakes this year. He got in a boat traveled a mile upstream on the st lawrence and got out at a boat launch and vanished.  He never wet a line.

[cdmckane]

 

Since most of the event details weren't made public "for security reasons", we were on the water nice and early this morning.  We got to Emerson Park right when they were launching the boats, cruised up the channel to the launch site, made our presence known, then went back out the channel to set up there.  We made sure that every boat saw us.  We never laid eyes on King Andy, but the last boat out of the channel took a hard turn right away and sped away like none of the other boats did, so I suspect he was on it.  A bunch of boaters, as well as a fair number of Cuomo's guests, gave us thumbs up and even said "Yes he does" as they went past us.

 

There were LOTS of pictures taken of us, so if you see them, please email them to me at [email protected]. 

 

 

[cdmckane]

Apparently, according to the Post Standard, there was a second shift of fishing that Andy was on.  DAMMIT!  I knew we should have stuck around

 

[bubba]

he is a sneaky little devil.  he has spies all over.  he has changed plans several times in the last 18 months when he heard there may be a welcoming committee.  he went to the opening of the state fair and never went outside.  I guess he thinks if he does not see it, it does not exist.