thedude,
In an earlier thread, I earnestly requested that you stop making stuff up and be more careful, and you promised that you would "stick to the facts." But you just posted claims you either made up out of whole cloth or based on exaggerations of the truth. I think facts and nuances matter. So, even though my family thinks I am absolutely nuts to spend time on these responses, I'll point out a few of your alternative facts:
1) thedude: "You tout that you helped deliver thousands of school seats in the last 13 years, yet you also said you abandoned the Democratic party because you couldn't get anything done..." He never said he "couldn't get anything done." He was proud of what he was able to deliver to his constituents. He did spell out a lot of big agenda items that couldn't get off the ground, and mainstream Democratic tactics as well as the votes of conservative Democratic Senators failed to get them off the ground.
2) thedude: "You attack the Democrats for proposing a budget that fully funds NYC schools because the Senate Republicans wont vote for it." Please provide evidence that he or the IDC attacked the Democrats for doing this. I can't find any. If you can't, then you've made it up. If you can, I apologize in advance.
3) thedude: "You attack you're constituents who showed up to you're Town Hall and are now calling you out on education funding as being outsiders and agitators, but now you say its the Democratic conference thats actually behind all the criticism against you." Agree that it was a bad idea for the IDC and Peralta to say that about constituents who protested. But that does not contradict his assertion that the mainline Democrats used political shenanigans by misrepresenting a procedural vote. One had nothing to do with the other.
4) the dude: "the proposed budget has less funding for NYC schools than LI and upstate school, there is no Dream Act, no GENDA, no campaign finance reform, no rent protections, and no clarity on Raise the Age." You seem to be discussing the Republican Senate budget. The IDC put forward a separate budget that included most of those policies and provisions. I'm not especially fond of Jeff Klein, but his press release spells those out:
https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/jeffrey-d-klein/independent-democratic-conference-releases-historic-budget.
These budgets are essentially negotiating positions and votes on them do not change State laws It's disappointing that the IDC couldn't get the Republicans to include at least a few of these items, but the proof of the pudding will come during negotiations with the Governor. When that happens, despite all the fingerprinting engaged in by both sides, I presume Hastie (Democrat from the Assembly) and Klein will actually have the same positions on almost everything. Let's see what happens.
