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translates as:
"The minority considers something better than nothing, and will take what we're willing to give them."
"Let us work together, raise our government to the highest standards of transparency and accountability."
I think this must translate to random white noise, or background music.
Hearing this speech gives me even less faith that he's serious. I know he's not the most exciting speaker, but he sounds, well, bored.
um, yeah. TODAY is day one. It always is.
Shelly is, admittedly, a really dull speaker. Always has been, always will be. But, folks should take note that he was MAKING THIS SPEECH WHILE HIS CONFERENCE WAS IN CAUCUS. Under the current system, that is the ideal condition for a coup. There is no such apparent threat. The current majority of the current legislature has elected him their official leader. Social change activists (or goo-goo lobbyists) are never able to choose the cards they would prefer from the deck, but, must, rather, play the best hand they can with the cards on the table. You can wish Shelly was not the ace, but, at the moment, he is.
Realistically, there is some incremental change taking place. You can be in the vanguard and continually aggitate for more, but, that will not be effective unless there is some mechanism for moving the actual apparatus of the government and/or party. I'd like to be a part of that mechanism-- hoping that TAP is big enough to accept more than just the vanguard. IMHO, substance (bills, rules) does matter.... and will, in the future, help to change the process, too, in concert with ongoing aggitation.
Hopefully, TAP will not lower its demands and hopes to on the alter of incremental/achievable change. New York needs much more than tweaking.
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