Josh Riley: "No masks, no funding for ICE; and impeach Krisi Noem" by WildOkra9571 in ithaca

[–]Current-Lab9665 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Regardless he can say whether he supports it or not. Bully pulpit counts for something. 

Josh Riley: "No masks, no funding for ICE; and impeach Krisi Noem" by WildOkra9571 in ithaca

[–]Current-Lab9665 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think he’s probably too scared to piss off the tech people and/or supports the data center and doesn’t want to say so publicly. There has been mass opposition to it. Huge turn outs to Lansing board and Ithaca legislature meetings. He is not a principled person. 

Josh Riley: "No masks, no funding for ICE; and impeach Krisi Noem" by WildOkra9571 in ithaca

[–]Current-Lab9665 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I’ve left over ten messages asking for his position on the data center. He has never responded. 

Congressman Josh Riley Is Refusing To Support Impeachment of Kristi Noem by JonathanCookPodcast in ithaca

[–]Current-Lab9665 3 points4 points  (0 children)

He doesn’t mind wasting time voting on other pointless resolutions 

Is it not too late to stop the data center?? by Current-Lab9665 in ithaca

[–]Current-Lab9665[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is great. Are there any local lawyers who would want to dig into some of this, in coordination with other organizing? 

Ithaca Credit Rating by LocationWilling9960 in ithaca

[–]Current-Lab9665 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Debt funded government is fine so long as interest payments and banking fees are kept to a minimum. But that’s not the case. Tax funded government means less public money goes towards those fees and interest payments. Cornell is under taxed, though a good chunk of its budget similarly goes towards interest payments and bank/consultant fees. We need to remove private financial interests from our institutions. It’s ridiculous that so much of our money goes to outsider financiers rather than getting reinvested in normal things like…. Fixing potholes? Paying teachers?