ALBANY, Feb. 13 - "Are you getting a lot of love mail?" Assemblyman Albert A. Stirpe Jr., a Democrat from North Syracuse, asked a colleague this week as they both got into an elevator here in the Capitol complex.
"Phone calls," his colleague said. "I'm getting phone calls."
Mr. Stirpe, a freshman lawmaker, said wryly, "No one's ever going to vote for me again."
In the week since state lawmakers rebuffed Gov. Eliot Spitzer and picked a member of the Assembly, Thomas P. DiNapoli, as state comptroller, they have been feeling plenty of heat.
Well it is about time that people let their representatives know that this type of behavior is unacceptable. The reformation up in Albany by Spitzer will not be stopped by those in the legislature that want to keep business as usual. It is good to see citizens respond to their government and hold them accountable.
