Who is going to pay at the end us voters and leave Religion out of politics, our nation is in a decline and seems no one wants to talk about the real issues on how to get this nation rolling again.

Scott, yer a smart young feller. Yer folks taught ya right. Aint no room in politics for religion less yer all praying together. Obama riversed the Bush law that made the Church give out contrceptives. That's the right thing to do. Stay out of their business, less you need a funeral or a weddin.

Spot on, Mr Bouvier!

To quote from the Post: Altschuler "never denies any claim about the political consultant who found him a disctrict to run in.....He is an absolute master at generating a perception......He showed that at Office Tiger when he and Joe created the "perception" of a large sophisticated enterprise by working the press and conferences and so on.....In reality it was a very "low budget second rate" operation.....Randy's biggest weakness is that fact that he is really "not a visionary" or a decision maker. He will finnagle, follow the power base and "do whatever it takes to get elected" and boot strap up the ladder." Sounds like Nixon.

There's your 2012 Republican candidate for Congress. I wouldn't vote for Altschuler if he promised a chicken in every pot!

God help Long Island!!

Altschuler sold Tiger Office for $250 million. Here's what Wikipedia said about him after an interview: "Altschuler has claimed OfficeTiger is not a traditional outsourcing company, but rather one whose overseas employees "enhance the services and jobs that Americans are doing here domestically." Later in the interview, he contends, "You want the professionals here doing different kinds of things than he or she is doing today. Office Tiger allows them to take some of the more traditional tasks and outsource that offshore." [5] However, later in the same interview, Altschuler admitted some companies use OfficeTiger to "cut costs and save money by shipping jobs off shore." Thanks for nothing, Randy!

You left out the best part: "OfficeTiger expanded to 29 offices and 42 client locations across nine countries and employed 4,000 people in India, 4,000 in Europe, 1,000 in Sri Lanka, 750 in the United States, and 300 in the Philippines." (Source: Wikipedia)

Thank you President Obama for reversing the Bush Doctorine that inteferred with church business. Everyone makes choices in life. Yours was good. Bless you

With Altschuler lying to us now, he'll have no trouble lying from Washington. It's a shame he isn't honest. I think the Post said it best; "He will finnagle, follow the power base and do whatever it takes to get elected". I can't support Altschuler. Not now, not ever. Bishop's done a good job through this Bush debacle. Look at the hand Bush dealt Congress. What a mess. God, go with him please, and guide him wisely.

Got to laugh at bias editorials like this. There is nothing "great" about socialist Bishop. His voting record clearly indicates that he is a follower, not a leader. A guy that has flip-flopped more times than a fish out of water. A guy that likes to give your hard earned money way to those who abuse the hard working taxpayers of this country. Tim Bishop one of the reasons why the dependent class has increased exponentially on Long Island at the expense of the taxpayers.

Granted you got one thing against Altschuler, he outsourced. But what's more upsetting than his outsourcing is the liberals hypocrisy against outsourcing. Remember this next time you go shopping at Target or Wallmart for those low-low prices you all love so much.

Don't forget that Bishop only won the election by a few short hundred votes. If Bishop wasn't bought and paid for by civil right activists and the unions the guy would have been long gone. It's obvious that Tim Bishop didn't get the message that hard working law abiding New Yorkers are sick and tired of getting their money stolen from them and given to those that either disobey and disrespect the laws of this country and those that have no intentions on becoming productive members of society.

It's a lot easier to be against something than for something. In the first instance you do not actually have to accomplish anything, except to tear down what someone else has done!

One could almost believe that Randy Altschuler has been secretly recruited by the Democrats. After all, what he's saying is so directly opposed to what most people think and do, it's hugely damaging to himself and Republicans generally, and hugely helpful to Tim Bishop and Democrats generally. I think he's gone over.

I'm a fisherman and small business owner. Bishop knows our plight and helps us. Altschuler doesn't. It's that simple.

LI can't survive with a rich wanna-be-Congressman. We have a fragile economy that Altshuler knows nothing about. I'm happy to vote for Bishop. Nobody's perfect, but Altshuler is too much a risk. I can't afford to risk any of my business giving somebody a chance to see if he works or doesn't.

Bishop works and works hard, coming to our community regular to talk. I like that. He takes the good with the bad. That's not easy but he keeps coming back to help. That takes a big man and a tough man. I sometimes pity him, but that lasts about a minute. Hear Bishop speak. He's concerned and keeps fighting for us.

I heard him talk on cable TV from a library. Knows his stuff. Honest and forthright. Bishop has my vote, too, an my wife's.

I think that you are all being very mean to Randy. That's probably the reason that he spent virtually no time (or money) out here in the last election. THIS time, I think that we should all encourage him to come out and meet us. He could, for instance, sponsor a 4th of July free barbecue and music festival at Gabreski Airport as a "Meet and Greet". I know that I for one would view him so much more favorably if he spent some of that $$200M he made from outsourcing in my neighborhood.

"HATSIZE FOR CONGRESS"...I can hear the congregants at Gabreski murmur the words between every buttery bite.

Ha, ha! You're all very funny. Altschuler wouldn't know a Long Island lobster from a summer flounder!

I would like to know, just for the fun of it, who were the "informed" voters who cast their ballot for Altschuler last time. Oh, it does not matter, they voted for him because he was not Bishop. They would have cast their ballot even for me, and they do not know even my name!

Whatever you think of the outsourcer, this piece is poorly written and edited. You needed to slow down and think for a moment, or maybe have a professional writer proof your work. Right off the top, you screw up the lede. What you want to say is "submitted UNDER THE NAME OF" Randy Outsourcer if you're charging he didn't write it. Then there are little things like you need a comma after "been" in the sentence: "Where have you been[,] Randy?" The funny thing is Mr. Altschuler could help you with this, since his business in India began offering to proof-read things like this for Americans.

Basic journalistic rules also require you to reveal you're a member of the Board of Trustees. Don't be ashamed of it. It lends weight to your argument.

While you did get some things wrong about the specific legislation, the comments about Altschuler as an individual are spot-on.

I'd like to add my voice to John Bouvier's informative letter. It saddens me that the nasty campaign season has begun with Randy's Op-Ed piece trying to denigrate Congressman Tim Bishop. Mr. Bishop has a history of bi-partisanship and his continued reelection to office provides sufficient evidence that this is the case. He gets things done for his constituents and cares about our well-being and the health of our country. Other than wanting to take away women's hard-earned rights and chanting the anti-big government mantra, Randy has not provided any compelling platform that would convince an intelligent voter that he is a substantial candidate. Tim Bishop has consistently proven he's the man for the job and I am extremely proud of and grateful for his ceaseless efforts in our behalf.
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If we're going to boost Bishop and rip Altschuler -- as much of a doofus as he is -- it's important we not do the same kinds of things and rip his intelligence (or lack there of) and exaggerate about things like taking away our rights. Altschuler has made ceaseless efforts in his own right, Joyce. It just happens to have been on behalf of India and lining his own pockets.