To Members of the Dutchess County Democratic Committee and Friends:

The Committee’s annual Issues Forum this year will be held at Poughkeepsie Day School on Saturday, April 18 at 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.  The event is co-sponsored by the Dutchess Young Democrats. Chairs of the Issues Committee are Fred Bunnell and Jonathan Smith.
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The East Fishkill Open Space Preservation Committee invites East Fishkill residents to a program “Why Should We and How Can We Preserve Our Open Space” on Monday, April 20th at 7:30PM in the Town Hall. Speakers will be Matt Shurtleff from The Trust for Public Land and Rebecca Thornton from Dutchess Land Conservancy. Refreshments will be served.

February 8, 2009    

Dear Editor,

   I would like to respond to Legislator James Miccio’s recent letter to this paper regarding the recent Dutchess County budget process.  I’m glad he got to “the truth of the matter” (his words) because I was getting ready to blame the Republicans for the “flaws in the county budget.” Continue Reading

To the Dutchess County Democratic Committee:

It is no surprise that the Republican National Committee and its blog site are after our new Democratic candidate in the 20th Congressional District. And, of course, getting Democrats on unpaid taxes is the name of the game today, Tuesday, February 3.

Yesterday the RNC charged Scott Murphy with tax evasion and improper involvement in an Indian auction site like eBay. Today’s Albany Times Union article should provide everyone with good talking points to combat the unfounded accusations. Scott was upfront about these things in his interview, I assure you.

See the article copied below, and also at this site (copy and paste in subject bar):
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=766276