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Times Union: Amsterdam News asks Cuomo if he’s running

27 Sep

Elinor Tatum, the publisher and editor of The Amsterdam News, published this stern letter to the Cuomo campaign saying he has not reached out to the minority community, and hasn’t spoken to the state’s oldest African-American newspaper since 2002.

“You have remained silent. You have met with no one. And I mean no one,” Tatum wrote. “You have not spoken to us or any other media outlets, for that matter. You seem to think that you are the golden child who cannot be touched, but I am afraid, my friend, you may be sorely mistaken.”

Cuomo’s campaign has been subjected to criticism for not reaching out extensively deeply into the African-American community. The campaign began doing so last month, but has yet to publish the promised “Urban Agenda” volume of Cuomo: The Books. (more…)

Capital Tonight on Elinor Tatum’s Editorial

24 Sep

Elinor Tatum, publisher and editor-in-chief of The Amsterdam News, (the nation’s oldest continuously published black newspaper), has given voice to a concern I’ve heard a lot of worried murmurs about in Democratic circles: That black voters won’t come out to vote for Andrew Cuomo.

In an open letter to the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Tatum warned the AG that he “cannot do this without the help of the Black community, and you will not get that help just for being a Cuomo.” (more…)

Politico’s Maggie Haberman on Elinor Tatum’s editorial

24 Sep

Tatum warns Cuomo on the black vote

I wrote yesterday that some Democrats are expressing concerns about whether Andrew Cuomo’s running-to-govern strategy, and a sense that he’s not aware of how unhappy black voters are, could yield the same result that it did for Mark Green.

Now, Eleanor Tatum, publisher of the Amsterdam News, is giving Cuomo just that warning, finally laying public the frustrations that black officials have expressed privately with Team Cuomo – and saying the black vote shouldn’t be taken for granted. (more…)

Andy, are you gonna to run a campaign?

23 Sep
By ELINOR TATUM: Publisher and Editor in Chief

Dear Andrew,

It has been a long time since we talked. It was good to see you at the editorial board meeting of the Amsterdam News in early August, but besides that, we have not met to discuss issues affecting our community or your election runs since your run for governor against Carl McCall back in 2002. Andrew, that is eight long years ago, and much has changed; yet, much has stayed the same.

You have remained silent. You have met with no one. And I mean no one. You have not spoken to us or any other media outlets, for that matter. You seem to think that you are the golden child who cannot be touched, but I am afraid, my friend, you may be sorely mistaken. (more…)

The mosque in Lower Manhattan: What is the real controversy?

12 Aug

By ELINOR TATUM: Publisher and Editor in Chief

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. —The First Amendment of the U.S. constitution

The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides for freedom of religion, a key principle that these United States were founded on. America was supposedly created as a bastion for freedom, leaving the oppressive rule of the British across the ocean.

We fought the Revolutionary War to be free from the British and the Civil War so that our people could be free from slaveholders. We fought the Second World War to save those in foreign lands from tyranny. And today, we are in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban on the same principals, the ideas that there should be freedom of religion and real opportunity in their lands. (more…)

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