#governor of New York

[dadsinsuits]

Herbert H. Lehman

[rabbitcruiser]

Governor of New York David B. Hill signed legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York’s first state park on April 30, 1885, ensuring that Niagara Falls will not be devoted solely to industrial and commercial use.

[transpondster]

sorry, i think that reply is hilarious

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Fay Cusick, a bank clerk, learns how to shoot a gun under the instruction of Lieut. Mayer, U.S. Army, April 13, 1922. Increasing crime in cities, including New York, led to the opening of a shooting school on Governors Island, where bank employees were taught the proper use of firearms.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America

[contemplatingoutlander]

"The gerrymandering alone undermines Wisconsin’s status as a democracy. If a majority of the people cannot, under any realistic circumstances, elect a legislative majority of their choosing, then it’s hard to say whether they actually govern themselves."

--Jamelle Bouie, Opinion Columnist, The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie points out the disturbing way that Republicans in Wisconsin have basically destroyed democratic representative government on all levels by:

Creating an unbreakable gerrymander to ensure a Republican legislative majority, even if more people vote for Democrats.

Weakening the power of a Democratic governor,.

Targeting a liberal Wisconsin supreme court justice for removal or suspension so that the state SC won't have the power to rule against gerrymandered districting maps, and won't be able to prevent a 19th century ban on abortion from becoming law.

This is chilling. Below are some excerpts from the column:

For more than a decade, dating back to the Republican triumph in the 2010 midterm elections, Wisconsin Republicans have held their State Legislature in an iron lock, forged by a gerrymander so stark that nothing short of a supermajority of the voting public could break it. [...] In 2018, this gerrymander proved strong enough to allow Wisconsin Republicans to win a supermajority of seats in the Assembly despite losing the vote for every statewide office and the statewide legislative vote by 8 percentage points, 54 to 46. No matter how much Wisconsin voters might want to elect a Democratic Legislature, the Republican gerrymander won’t allow them to. [...] Using their gerrymandered majority, Wisconsin Republicans have done everything in their power to undermine, subvert or even nullify the public’s attempt to chart a course away from the Republican Party. In 2018, for example, Wisconsin voters put Tony Evers, a Democrat, in the governor’s mansion, sweeping the incumbent, Scott Walker, out of office. immediately, Wisconsin Republicans introduced legislation to weaken the state’s executive branch, curbing the authority that Walker had exercised as governor. Earlier this year, Wisconsin voters took another step toward ending a decade of Republican minority rule in the Legislature by electing Janet Protasiewicz, a liberal Milwaukee county judge, to the State Supreme Court, in one of the most high-profile and expensive judicial elections in American history. [...] “Republicans in Wisconsin are coalescing around the prospect of impeaching a newly seated liberal justice on the state’s Supreme Court,” my newsroom colleague Reid J. Epstein reports. “The push, just five weeks after Justice Janet Protasiewicz joined the court and before she has heard a single case, serves as a last-ditch effort to stop the new 4-to-3 liberal majority from throwing out Republican-drawn state legislative maps and legalizing abortion in Wisconsin.” Republicans have more than enough votes in the Wisconsin State Assembly to impeach Justice Protasiewicz and just enough votes in the State Senate — a two-thirds majority — to remove her. But removal would allow Governor Evers to appoint another liberal jurist, which is why Republicans don’t plan to convict and remove Protasiewicz. If, instead, the Republican-led State Senate chooses not to act on impeachment, Justice Protasiewicz is suspended but not removed. The court would then revert to a 3-3 deadlock, very likely preserving the Republican gerrymander and keeping a 19th-century abortion law, which bans the procedure, on the books. If successful, Wisconsin Republicans will have created, in effect, an unbreakable hold on state government. With their gerrymander in place, they have an almost permanent grip on the State Legislature, with supermajorities in both chambers. With these majorities, they can limit the reach and power of any Democrat elected to statewide office and remove — or neutralize — any justice who might rule against the gerrymander. [color/emphasis added[

"It’s that breathtaking contempt for the people of Wisconsin — who have voted, since 2018, for a more liberal State Legislature and a more liberal State Supreme Court and a more liberal governor, with the full powers of his office available to him — that makes the Wisconsin Republican Party the most openly authoritarian in the country."

--Jamelle Bouie, Opinion Columnist, The New York Times

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[jacks-weird-world]

📸: Jack and NY Governor Kathy Hochul.

[whitefireprincess]

Governors Island, Lower Manhattan | (mingomatic)

[emjava-art]

📞"Hi, it's Chappell..."

Gov Ball Chappell is available as a sticker! 💖

[thebreakfastgenie]

Billy Joel only played a fundraiser for a presidential candidate once and it was for Obama in 2008 and I'm really fascinated by this. Partly it was because Bruce Springsteen guilted him into doing it but he didn't get involved in 2016 or 2024 (2020 doesn't count because you couldn't hold big fundraisers that year) even though he hates Trump (I have sources) and thinks he's dangerous. It seems like what moved him to do a fundraiser for Obama was less "we need to win this election for our survival" and more a sense of wanting to be part of history. I need to understand the Baby Boomer ethos.

[cellulardreams]

MUNA by em grey

[dadsinsuits]

Herbert H. Lehman

[kaiyves-backup]

Me: “Neither of our forts ever fired a shot in anger because there was never an invasion of New York between 1794 and 1996.” Visitor: “What about in 1997?” Me: “Well, yes, the aliens in ‘Independence Day’.” *visitor and his girlfriend crack up laughing*

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Army nurses, at their post at Fort Jay, Governors Island, wear gas masks as they have a civil defense drill, November 27, 1941.

Photo: Associated Press

[crying-on-the-six]

View of Manhattan from Governor’s Island

[bruce-morrow]

New York Harbor, October, 2023

Photo: Bruce Morrow