Seriously Mindy Meyer ???

Beginner Joined: Nov 09 2008 Posts: 3 Location: NY, NY

[quote="sequoia"]Okay, so don't vote for her. Vote for the other candidate.

"Where are her parents?" She's an adult. Your parents can tell you not to eat too much ice cream when you're seven and not to stay out too late when you're sixteen. Your parents can't tell you not to run for Senate when you're 22.

Calling single women "girls" really messes with people's perceptions. She's not a child.[/quote]

I deliberately called her a girl because she has the (lack of) judgement of a young child. As for where her parents were, I am the mother of 4 Bais Yakov daughters -- I shudder to think of the lack of chinuch that resulted in her feeling free to use S-E-X to get elected. It has nothing to do with whether or not I get to vote for her -- whether any of you realize it or not (see Gothamist, NY Post, Huffington Post, Above the Law) -- she is demeaning frumkeit. And yes, by labelling herself as "frum" she is actually doing that. I would have no problem with her at all (I have no problem with Snookie or Kim Kardashian) if she would campaign honestly -- she cannot call herself frum and then portray herself the way she does. I cannot imagine many of you would disagree with that. Oh, and by the way, she is SOOO profoundly stupid, she is posting links to all the articles making fun of her onto her campaign site. It is a SHANDA whether or not any of you realize it.

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I'm just not seeing the problem.

Anyway, you can't stop someone just because a) you disagree with them and b) they belong to your community. Even if you feel the way you do, she is still free to conduct her campaign as she sees fit and to identify as frum.

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[quote="ysmommy"][quote="StrawberrySmoothie"][quote="Rifka"][quote="sequoia"]Okay, so don't vote for her. Vote for the other candidate.

"Where are her parents?" She's an adult. Your parents can tell you not to eat too much ice cream when you're seven and not to stay out too late when you're sixteen. Your parents can't tell you not to run for Senate when you're 22.

Calling single women "girls" really messes with people's perceptions. She's not a child.[/quote]

I deliberately called her a girl because she has the (lack of) judgement of a young child. As for where her parents were, I am the mother of 4 Bais Yakov daughters -- I shudder to think of the lack of chinuch that resulted in her feeling free to use S-E-X to get elected. It has nothing to do with whether or not I get to vote for her -- whether any of you realize it or not (see Gothamist, NY Post, Huffington Post, Above the Law) -- she is demeaning frumkeit. And yes, by labelling herself as "frum" she is actually doing that. I would have no problem with her at all (I have no problem with Snookie or Kim Kardashian) if she would campaign honestly -- she cannot call herself frum and then portray herself the way she does. I cannot imagine many of you would disagree with that. Oh, and by the way, she is SOOO profoundly stupid, she is posting links to all the articles making fun of her onto her campaign site. It is a SHANDA whether or not any of you realize it.[/quote]

OMG you are soo judgemental! Its scary! Who do you even think you are to talk down about someone like that?! I do not live in NY so I don't even have to think about voting for her. And its one thing to not agree with her. But please, erev tisha bav, talk a little kinder about a fellow yid.

Also this whole thread is so sad. People are speaking worse about her than about any molesters ever discussed on this website. :([/quote]

thats what happens when you put yourself out there. pple talk and form opinions. some favorable and many not. being as she behaving like a 12 year old most pple with form unfavorable impressions of her.

I dont think she is making jews look bad or that this is some major chillul hashem here but I dont think its judgemental to be opposed to her methods of getting attention. she is not presenting a classy image at all.[/quote]

It is erev Tisha Bav. I was sure not to say anything negative to the various Pols who I spoke to who asked me what is going on here. I was sure not to make fun of her on FB, though I was sorely tempted to. But it is beyond a tragic comedy on the state of frumkeit on erev Tisha Bav that some of you can't even see why what she is doing is so heinous and antithetical to anyone's definition of frumkeit. Again, she can do what she wants -- but I have the right to protest her portrayal of what she thinks frum means. That doesn't mean I hate her -- this is not even slightly about sinas chinam -- but using Snooki tactics to get elected while still appealing to the frum vote should have all of us yelling that that is WAAAY beyond the boundary of what frum people tolerate

Platinum Member Joined: May 07 2008 Posts: 8963

1. She needs to lose the white lipstick, which does not go well with her dark complexion. She looks as if she ate yogurt and forgot to wipe her mouth.

2. She needs to lose the sultry facial expression and the coyly tilted head. That look does not say "I'm a visionary who gets things done." It says "I'm a pretty girl trying to look secksy without crossing any lines."

3. She needs to stop saying "you know" all the time.

4. She needs to actually learn something concrete about politics (not able to ID Shelly Silver? Really?)

5. Apparently she can't do a worse job than the incumbent, so what the heck.

6. However, I don't think I could vote for someone who would insist on continuing her present occupation while supposedly serving in the legislature. A very clever scheme to earn the money for law school, I grant you, so maybe she will do well in a legislature that voted itself a whopping raise while laying off thousands of state employees. But even so...wouldn't you want your representative to make representing you her top priority? Is it even legal to serve while attending school full time? But no, maybe she'd just take a course or two. After all, she'd be earning about $80K base pay, plus more for any special committee or other post, plus free health insurance if I'm not mistaken, plus many other perks. That would make drawing out her time in law school more than worth it.

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She seems to be garnering some very high profile interviews...
See Here MikeHuckabee

It's amazing to me how little it takes to get so much attention!!!!

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Zaq,

Its common for low level politicians to have another job while working for the legislature.
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I have given this some thought. She is a gimmick candidate like when Howard Stern ran for governor. This is only to raise her profile.

Her law school is a tier 4 law school and is arguably the lowest ABA accredited law school in the area. They have the lowest bar pass rate of the 15 schools. They are over eleven points behind the state average. They accept half of all applicants. The top firms do not recruit on campus and only Law Reveiw types get the good jobs.

This allows her to stand out.

She is not impressing me with how prepared she is. She seems just like a cute kid (as someone else said) running for high school president.

I hope she is ok because she is playing in an arena with gladiators. She claims no experience with corruption; but she also has presumably no experience with zexual harassment and the seduction of politics. She just doesn't seem like she could handle the pressure from lobbyists, constituents, other politicians, media types, etc if she was ever elected. She is not sophisticated.

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I did think the TV interviewers were a bit mean, setting her up for embarrassment. I felt a little sorry for her (tell you the truth, I wouldn't necessarily have instantly recognized Silver from his photo; last time I saw him, Mindy Meyer wasn't even a gleam in her Momma's eye) but otoh--golly gee! You're running for office in an organization and you haven't even made it your business to find out who its leaders are? Makes her sound like a kid running for a lark, just to see if she could do it, and not a serious politician at all.

I have no objection to her youth; youth has energy and is unfazed by "we've always done it this way." Her youthfully arrogant remark about the senate not having to be a senior citizens' home was rather stupid and couldn't be better calculated to alienate senior voters--but then Messrs. Weiner, Spitzer and Paterson were not only far more stupid, but they broke the law, too.

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