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Collins to Voters: 25 Pages Is Too Much For You to Absorb

The Buffalo News really needs to have a chat with its headline writers. The headline accompanying Jerry Zremski’s August 16th piece concerning Chris Collins‘ taxes bore the headline, “Collins discloses...

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Siena NY-27: Collins Leads, Baseline Set

A week or so ago, Channel 2 and the Buffalo News commissioned Siena College’s Research Institute to survey 628 likely voters in the newly constituted NY-27. The headlines revealed that Collins leads...

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Collins and Medicare: Bad Deal for Seniors, Americans

Remember how George W. Bush pushed to privatize Social Security? It failed, because people like Social Security, and because they didn’t want their entire retirement to be subject to the whims of the...

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Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory

I’m sort of sick of talking about Mitt Romney because, you know, Buffalo. But the Presidential campaign has become that car wreck you rubberneck on the 33. The three swing states Mitt has to win to...

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Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo

1. Shorter Buffalo News piece on Deputy Mayor Steve Casey: he’s a dick who terrorizes staff and throws Democrats under the bus in favor of Chris Collins, but he’s the Mayor’s dick.  2. The Buffalo News...

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Maybe Tuesday Will Be Better, AMIRITE?

1. Jeremy Zellner vs. Frank Max. If you care about this in any way, chances are you rely on a government job, are an elected official, or you’re a candidate. The average western New Yorker is...

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The State of NY-27; Collins and Hochul in Thunderdome

October NY-27 Siena Poll The Siena Research Institute polled NY-27 between October 1 and 4.  It surveyed 633 likely voters; 32% Democrats, 39% Republicans, and 27% independents. The headlines?...

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Debate Night in America

Tonight at 7pm, Kathy Hochul and Chris Collins will engage in their first head-to-head debate, presented by WNED-TV, in partnership with WGRZ-TV, The Buffalo News, The League of Women Voters of...

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Chris Collins and the Dictatorship of Petty Bureaucracy

In March 2007, the Erie County Republican Party unanimously endorsed Chris Collins as its candidate for County Executive. After two Giambra terms, replete with cheap politicking and fiscal disasters,...

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Curious Funding of the Chris Collins for Congress Campaign

Here’s a document that congressional candidate for NY-27 Chris Collins (R-Clarence) filed with the FEC. It is his final pre-general election filing, and shows who gave him money, and how much. (Carl...

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Buffalopundit Endorsements 2012

The Iowa Caucuses took place on January 3rd of this year – that’s almost a full year ago. I first want to comment on just how fundamentally horrible and broken our political system is. We have a...

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Taking and Mooching

1. Collins Mistakenly Crashes Dem Shindig From Roll Call’s “Heard on the Hill” column, an entry entitled, “Dude, Where’s My Caucus?”:  A Democratic staffer camped out at this morning’s caucus meeting...

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#CollinsCare

Many years ago, the thought was that people in government should seek to help the people.  Somewhere along the line, that changed. Now, there’s a theory that one helps the people only indirectly, by...

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Chris Collins Polls NY-27

Hey, I got mail from my Congresscritter, Chris Collins. I was very happy to receive it, because it made me feel important – like Collins really wanted my opinion!  Brad Riter and I discussed the letter...

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The Obamacare Trainwreck

While freshman congressmen vote – yet again – to weaken or eliminate Obamacare, the news was actually quite good yesterday. Good in a “it’s not Medicare-for-all, but it’s a vast improvement over the...

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Chris Collins Plays Dress-Up & Other Things

1. I visited the Depew Amshack for the first time yesterday, and was struck by how utilitarian and pedestrian it all seems. Taking Amtrak from Buffalo to New York is time-consuming, given that freight...

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Is the Town of Greece a Christian One?

Here’s a press release that Congressman Chris Collins issued:  Congressman Collins and 84 members of the House of Representatives file an Amicus Curiae brief to support religious freedom Congressman...

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Captain Collins

Is the Collins Congressional office apparatus set up like the USS Enterprise? Maybe more like the Sea Org? Either way, Collins has a penchant for golf shirts – he famously sold them to county workers...

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The Nihilist Sound and Fury of Chris Collins

There isn’t any way to sugarcoat it. Republican Representative Chris Collins (NY-27) voted last night to maintain the shutdown of the federal government, and to risk the United States’ first-ever...

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Cognitive Dissonance

    October 22, 2013   Dear Mr. Bedenko, Thank you for contacting me regarding the recent lapse in government funding.  I appreciate hearing from you.  On October 1, President Obama chose to shutdown...

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