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Democrat priorities: Artificial turf more important than cops

Submitted by Ironman on Thu, 05/14/2009 - 20:33
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Stamford CT Mayor Dan Malloy fancies himself a "New Democrat" who is fiscally  responsible and concerned with economic growth.

Of course, when Fox News's Steve Doocy tracked him down, Mayor Malloy's major initiative was to use the federal stimulus money to cover the city in new astroturf fields. 

Yeah, that was what is was going to take to get ourselves out of the depression. Astroturf.

$15 million worth.

So where does Mayor Malloy spend the city's own money?

Not on police protection!

23 officers in Stamford laid off

Stamford (WTNH) - Negotiations between the city of Stamford and the Stamford Police Association (SPA) broke down tonight and that means 23 police officers will be off the beat.

What's even more ironic about this is Malloy's own son is a recidivist criminal.

The old saying applies here. Don;t watch what Democrats say;  watch what they do.

Anyway, with incumbent Republican Jodi Rell @ 72% job approval Malloy might as well go to the artifical "field of dreams" as for his chances to unseat the Governor.

 

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Wrong Word

Submitted by thirdeblue on Fri, 05/15/2009 - 06:43.

Not to be a pedant...but....

You see, the term "Democrat" is a noun.  Usually you can't describe a noun with a noun.

The term "Democratic" is an adjective.  These are the parts of speech meant to describe other nouns.  Take, for example "New Democrat.  In this phrase "new" being an adjective describing the noun "Democrat".

"Democrat priorities" however doesn't fit this mold.  "Priorities" is the noun and since "Democrat" was meant to describe that word you would need to use adjective version, which is "Democratic."

This is why, for examply, you can call a politician a "Democrat" (noun), but the name of the party is the Democratic (adjective) Party (noun).  

Hopefully this clears up any confusion about the issue.  In tomorrow's lesson we'll learn about the differences between verbs and adverbs.