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...
View ArticleChris 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,...
View ArticleCurious 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...
View ArticleBuffalopundit 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...
View ArticleTaking 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...
View Article#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...
View ArticleChris 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleChris 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...
View ArticleIs 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...
View ArticleCaptain 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleCognitive 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...
View ArticleCollins Demagogues Social Security
This letter to the Buffalo News bears special attention. Thanks to Bruce Kennedy of Orchard Park for taking the time to write it. It highlights the rhetorical nonsense and outright lies that Chris...
View ArticleChris Collins Propaganda Call on Line 1
My Congressman was desperately interested in hearing my input about education and the Common Core standards that are slowly being transformed from an initiative to improve and enhance education and...
View ArticleCongressional Races of 2014
It’s shaping up to be an interesting Congressional election season. Republican incumbent Chris Collins will likely cruise to re-election in the sprawling 27th. He has name recognition, bases his every...
View ArticleNational Review: Collins Has A Problem with Blacks
I almost feel badly for Chris Collins. Almost. My Congressman did a good thing this week, slamming proposed FDA rules against aging cheese on wood boards. It wasn’t the regulatory overreach that...
View ArticleChris Collins in NRO: Jim O’Donnell Reacts
Jim O’Donnell is the Democrat running against Chris Collins in NY-27. He is a police officer and a lawyer, and you can learn more about him here. Yesterday, he released the statement below. I reached...
View ArticleWeppner Campaign Seeking “Not So Nice”, Incidental Blight Photos
Blight. It’s a problem throughout Buffalo, WNY, and much of upstate and the rust belt. You can literally go anywhere in North America and encounter some abandoned buildings, ugly graffiti, vacant...
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Buffalopundit Endorsements 2014
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