Any Albany, NY'ers here? - Is this newspaper a RW rag?

[Breeze54]

I'm asking due to this article. Anyone know?

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Clinton is all talk on finance reform

3 of 11 Opinion stories:

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=627548&category=OPINION&newsdate=10/5/2007
Capital Newspapers Division of The Hearst Corporation, Albany, N.Y.

By DICK POLMAN
First published: Friday, October 5, 2007

Hillary Rodham Clinton is trying to sell herself as a reformer, a new broom that will sweep away the traditional Washington chicanery. Yet her response to a fundraising scandal in her own shop is classic old-school politics, and her determination to run a fully privatized presidential race is the antithesis of reform.


Consider the case of Norman Hsu, the onetime fugitive and confessed crook who raised $850,000 for Clinton's campaign, and who now stands freshly accused of mail fraud, wire fraud and violation of campaign finance laws. He was a "bundler," one of the freelance players who tap people for donations, then bundle them for delivery to a money-hungry presidential candidate. He was an unusually notorious bundler, but, in the end, he was merely a symptom of a money race that has spun out of control.

When Clinton was asked about Hsu recently, she said this: "Well, I'm very much in favor of public financing, which is the only way to really change a lot of the problems that we have in our campaign finance system. ... The real answer here is public financing, and I'm going to work very hard in my time in the Senate and then in the White House to try to get to a public financing system ... because that is the answer to all of these issues that have arisen."

In other words, Clinton insists she is "very much in favor" of providing taxpayer money to the presidential candidates -- to thwart the influence of private money, and foil the aspirations of the bundlers -- and that she will "work very hard in my time in the Senate" to effectuate that kind of reform.

To which I say, "What a crock."

During her six-year Senate career, Clinton has never once championed campaign finance reform.

more....

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Her votes say different and no, I'm not a HRC supporter but want to be fair.

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Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (NY)

Campaign Finance and Election Issues
http://www.vote-smart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=55463

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Date ----------------------------Bill Title------------Vote
08/02/2007 Lobbying and Donation Regulations Y
10/16/2002 Help America Vote Act of 2002 N
04/11/2002 Equal Protection of Voting Rights Act of 2001 Y
03/20/2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2001 Y
02/27/2002 Equal Protection of Voting Rights Act of 2001 N
04/02/2001 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2001 Y
03/26/2001 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2001 Y
03/21/2001 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act - Union Amendment Y
03/20/2001 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2001 Y

[Birthmark]

1. I was born there.

The TU is THE newspaper for the Capital District.

[saracat]

2. I used to live in Albany.The Tmes Union is the only daily paper.

It was always moderate as I recall.I don't remember it being RW. But things could have changed.

[Nite Owl]

3. Not in Albany but capital district

so we read the TU. I wouldn't clasify them as right or left. They broke the story on our very corrupt congressman's (Sweeney)wife abuse right before the '06 election. They took a lot of heat but held firm on it. They have given our new dem congressperson a lot of good press but then she leans to the right of center (Blue Dog). I wouldn't call them a right wing rag but they aren't progressive either.

[Breeze54]

4. Thanks! Looks like all 3 responses agree.

It's a middle of the road paper.

Thank You!

Note:
That article is an opinion piece at that newspaper,
so I guess it's not necessarily the newspapers opinion.