Albany, NY -- More On Turn Off CBS 6

I was looking around for some progressive news in the Albany area, and found that the movement to Turn Off CBS 6, which I mentioned in November and several locals have asked me about, made some waves this weekend by protesting in front of Huck Finn's Warehouse in Albany, getting some TV coverage in the process (though not from CBS 6!).

That little tidbit came from Albany Eye, a very good blog I just discovered that covers the Capital Region.

Speaking of the Capitol Region, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jonathan Tasini is coming into town on Saturday to speak to representatives of the Working Families Party. I may or may not be able to attend, but I'm going to distribute some flyers about Jonathan tonight at the weekly rally of Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace and hope to get a few people involved in the campaign.

Remember Jim Rassman, the Republican whose life John Kerry saved in Vietnam who went on to endorse Kerry in 2004? Well, he's come out against Jonathan's opponent Hillary Clinton's position on the Iraq war:

The retired sheriff's deputy said he was also upset with Mrs. Clinton for her support for the war in Iraq and her refusal to embrace the call for a quick withdrawal issued recently by Rep. John Murtha, a Democrat of Pennsylvania. "I see this war as a terrible mistake that's going to put our military back into the state that it was in the latter half of the 1970s when we had a broken military," Mr. Rassmann, a former green beret, said.

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Mr. Rassmann said Mr. Kerry has acknowledged that his vote for the war in Iraq was an error, while Mrs. Clinton has not. "I know he feels very strongly that he made a terrible mistake," Mr. Rassmann said.

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