| So the only thing that matters is how much of our tax money a legislator can haul to his or her district to waste. That's it. Corruption? Hey, whatever works. Party disloyalty? All in the past. Criminal activity? What criminal activity? Has Pedro been convicted of anything (yet)? The only thing that matters to anyone in the Bronx, as far as anyone who matters down there is concerned, is pork, and how much they get. That's all.
This says so many volumes about what is wrong with New York State, not just Albany, but the whole state, it makes me want to pack up and move, and I like my little square of Central New York very much. If the actual voters re-elect this scumbag, that would destroy for all time whatever speck of faith I might have that New Yorkers are the least bit interested in people doing the right thing.
This is what our Democratic leadership enabled - that Pedro Espada is now the Senate President and gets to wield all kinds of power in the state government that he clearly does not deserve. This guy should be given a one-way ticket Upstate (if you know what I mean), but he'll probably get to keep his job as long as the Democrats maintain a majority in the State Senate. I'm really pissed that he gets away with dragging the New York Democratic Party's name through the mud. Locals should be pissed that the Bronx is now and forever associated with the kind of corruption once portrayed on The Sopranos, and the people of the Bronx probably don't care. Well, I don't like it, and I doubt most of you like it either. This ought to really, really piss you off. I'm hopping mad right now, I can tell you that much.
UPDATE: Really minor edits, since this made the front page, and I don't like sounding like an idiot. |
