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May 21, 2013, Rochester, NY; the full, unedited press conference.

The Green Party of Monroe County Candidate Slate Announcement
City Hall, May 1st, 2013, Rochester, NY

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The NY Women’s Equality Agenda is a policy initiative that NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo announced early in 2013. NY Women’s Equality just unveiled this new video. I invite you to watch the video, read my response below, and share your own response.

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un called for an end to conflicts with South Korea at a time when the South’s incoming president is busy crafting new policy on the North. In an unusual nationally televised address on the New Year eve, Kim Jong-un said that history has shown that confrontation leads to nothing but war.

The Senate’s proposed ‘fiscal cliff’ deal won approval of majority of the Congress late Tuesday evening and the bill is now ready to be signed into law by the President.

The belated compromise on tax hikes passed the Congress with 257 to157 vote despite objections of several conservative Republicans. The measure is a step taken towards the next fiscal cliff confrontation, the spending cuts, which will be due in a matter of weeks.

The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a Texas prison must provide free kosher meals for Orthodox Jewish inmate Max Moussazadeh.

Moussazadeh said that prison officials' refusal to provide him with a kosher diet violated the doctrine of the TorahTorah which states that the consumption of foods deemed unclean defiles the body and the soul. Under kosher requirements, foods must be prepared and handled in a strict and specific manner in order to be fit for consumption by adherents.

US Senator Mark Rubio (R-Fla.) voted against the budget bill negotiated by Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). It will earn Rubio much support among fiscal hawks and Tea Party Republicans who will play a major role in the 2016 presidential primaries. US Rep. Paul Ryan is in the predicament to be a team player and vote for the bill or risk losing support to Rubio in a future presidential matchup. In some ways, Rubio has already outmaneuvered Ryan.

The first day of 2013 is in the history books, but the first day of trading on Wall StreetWall Street awaits us.

With reports out of Hong Kong indicating early gains of as much as 1.9 percent on the Hang Seng Index, and the New York Times reporting that stock indices in Australia and Singapore saw early gains of 1.3 percent, the US markets may well be in for a stellar day on Wednesday.

Where will the Dow Jones Industrial Average wind up at the end of trading?

With the entire nation about to face higher taxes, including the middle class, the Republican House majority compromised Tuesday night and accepted President Obama’s plan for dealing temporarily with funding government. The rich would have been hit hard by the ending of tax cuts passed under President George Bush, even if the Senate-passed tax hikes were not approved.

Obama appeared to try to avoid gloating, but made it clear he felt he had kept his central campaign promise.