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John Ciampoli 
Tue Mar 02, 2010 at 14:55:47 PM EST
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Nassau County Exec Ed Mangano, a tax cheat himself has now nominated John Ciampoli, a man with over $300,000 in outstanding tax liens to be Nassau County Attorney.
The Republican majority provided the four votes needed to approve him, and did not even bring up an eight year-old federal tax lien, since resolved, and a another federal tax lien from last year that is still pending.
However, being a tax cheat is not the only claim to fame for John Ciampoli. He was also involved in past GOP efforts at voter suppression and served as a an attorney to the magical triumvirate of Joe Bruno, Dean Skelos and Pedro Espada.
Nassau voters threw a dedicated, innovative public servant out of the County Executive's office last November and chose to return the corrupt Nassau Republican machine to power. The chickens have officially come home to roost.
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Fri Dec 18, 2009 at 18:39:25 PM EST
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John Faso with John Ciampoli after the hearing in Albany
An important ruling just came down today from the Appellate Division, Third Department, which smacks down GOP hatchetmen attorneys John Ciampoli and Jim Walsh in their annual effort to deny people the right to vote:
CLICK TO DOWNLOAD THE DECISION
Background and details after the jump...
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Wed Nov 18, 2009 at 16:37:14 PM EST
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NOTE: Now cross-posted in slightly-reordered form at Daily Kos.
Remember the Tedisco-Murphy showdown over the right of second home owners to cast absentee ballots?
The ever-changing mind of Poughkeepsie's vote-denying Pizza Stain Judge Brands? The literally hamfisted legal tactics of John Ciampoli? The barely-veiled threats to sic private investigators on voters, many of them happening to have Jewish-sounding last names?
Do you remember? Sure 'ya do!
And if you don't, and somehow missed all the fun, never fear: The drama is playing out all over again right now in Columbia County, with statewide repercussions if the GOP's vote-suppression team -- led by wannabe private eye and former Dutchess County clerk Bill Paroli Jr. and attorney John Ciampoli succeeds in shopping for a judge who will overturn years of precedent...
Details of how Roli-Poli are striking again after the jump. First, some background:
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Thu Nov 05, 2009 at 19:23:56 PM EST
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Most of you probably heard about the ruling by Judge Jim Brands on election night that all college students in Dutchess County must vote by affidavit ballots, even if everything was completely in order. This was just one part of an effort to systematically harass, intimidate, and suppress the student vote orchestrated by the GOP across Dutchess County.
Some background information is in order. Up until 2000, Dutchess County was one of very few counties, possibly the only county in the entire nation, to deny college students the right to vote where they resided nine months out of the year. About two or three years prior to that, a group of students attending Bard College and Vassar College filed a class-action lawsuit against the County Board of Elections to process the registrations of students without subjecting them to discriminatory practices designed to prevent their registration from being accepted. While the case was tied up in the courts, a bipartisan committee was formed by the County Legislature to review the issue of qualifications and procedures for college students who wish to vote in Dutchess County. It concluded that "As a society we should encourage every class of citizen to vote, and remove every impediment to voting for every class of citizen." Then Republican election commissioner Bill Paroli disagreed. Paroli, however, found himself preoccupied after he was arrested for fraud, extortion, and several other charges relating to corruption, and resigned in disgrace. Republicans chose current commissioner David Gamache (last seen refusing to do his job) to replace him, who eventually relented and began to process the registrations of students without discriminatory practices.
I am a student at Bard College, located in the Town of Red Hook. Like a lot of Dutchess County, and indeed, like much of rural New York in general, Red Hook is a traditional Republican stronghold which is rapidly trending Democratic. Bard routinely ranks as one of the most liberal colleges in the nation; as you might expect, we aren't exactly popular with the Red Hook GOP. Me and about a dozen other students volunteered our spare time on election day to coordinate campus GOTV, keep track of student turnout, make sure that people can get to the polling place, etc.
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Tue Nov 03, 2009 at 17:24:43 PM EST
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This sounds too crazy to be true, but a very reliable source informs me that Judge Jim "Pizza Stain" Brands (You remember him, right?) in Dutchess County has ruled that all college students must vote by afadavit even if they are registered and in the book. I'm also told that the challenges to the students came from none other than our old pal, GOP lawyer John Ciampoli, the guy who ran Jim Tedisco's disenfranchisement effort in NY-20.
I hear that this is being appealed and I hope to have the ruling shortly.
UPDATE: Source says ruling now reversed.
Reversed. Not in writing yet but college kids can vote on machine if in book.
This should surprise no one as this ruling was completely insane. That said, I think it is high time we had a much, much closer look at the Ciampoli/Brands alliance here. It stinks to high heaven and has gone on for far too long. Sunshine, please.
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