I think I found this through CapCon this morning, but just stumbled on it again while closing a pile of windows. Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio shares his views on how Albany works with The Observer:
"Eliot may wish he had another way, but there’s only one way the budget is ever going to get done, son... It’s three people, each getting a piece of the pie, and that’s it....
"And it’s not that he did anything wrong. He thought the process should be done one way, and he thought, you know, he could accomplish it. And now I think he must understand—I can’t speak for him, certainly; you know he’s a brilliant man. I can’t speak for him—but I think he understands now that, hey, you have to sit down, and it’s a give-and-take.
"The only thing that ever changes in Albany are the faces. The system stays intact."
That's what we're up against.
