| The fallout from the DSCC fundraising pay-to-play scandal, now in its second day, continues to rain scorn and disbelief on the embattled committee.
Jimmy Vielkind reports a second fundraising memo - this one directed at business, not labor - but with a lower price tag: $25,000. Others are forthcoming, apparently.
Liz Benjamin, under the headline Albany Hits A New Low, asks:
You know things are really bad when a good government group feels compelled to chide state lawmakers for selling access in return for campaign contributions and call for a ban on the practice.
I'm sorry. I thought quid-pro-quo was already illegal.
And speaking of the Daily News, the lead editorial today is nothing short of devastating:
Stench of Senate slime: Democrats totally renege on promise of Albany change
It's breathtaking how completely the state Senate Democrats have betrayed their vaunted promise to clean up Albany.
A mere 15 months after coming to power, the self-styled reformers who run the chamber are now stonewalling a major ongoing corruption investigation - and shaking down special interests for cash in a brazen move that's as close to extortion as you can get.
Given how thoroughly other essential constituencies, specifically LGBTs over the abject marriage failure, have been disenchanted with Senate Democrats, you do have to wonder: after the gays, the reformers, labor, who's left?
Anyone? Bueller? Anybody? |
