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This belongs to you. Take it back...
Glitch 
Thu Jan 18, 2007 at 18:54:03 PM EST
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I had to rub my eyes in disbelief when I saw this quote in the NY Post today. "If I were them, I wouldn't be talking about campaign-finance reform on one hand, then on the other hand doing a $25,000 price of admission to funnel money - launder money, into a Senate contest," Bruno said. This from the guy who LOANED money from his campaign committee to companies at a high rate, and received interest payments that exceeded what would have been allowed under campaign finance laws.... See Dr. Love's excellent diary on "Skirting Campaign Finance Laws"
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Tue Jan 16, 2007 at 18:03:17 PM EST
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One way to get to a NYS Senate web pages, even if you don't know the senator's name, is to just use their district number. Unless, you are looking for www.nyssenate7.com, in which case you get the very un-user friendly "Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)" page. Nothing about the district, nothing about the special election, no district map. . . you are OUT OF LUCK if you go to our NY State Senate page looking for information.
Of course, you can read on the NYS Senate home page a message from the Majority Leader Bruno welcoming you to find your own senator: Our web site has a new, redesigned Senators page that provides additional information about our members and their districts, including links to their individual web sites. Click on that, and if you know that your Senator's name now happens to be "Vacant," you can at least get a link to a page that sort of acknowledges that there had been an SD7. Want a map of the district? Well, strangely enough, you won't find it there... must be another one of them computer glitches.
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Mon Dec 04, 2006 at 08:23:04 AM EST
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Not to beat a dead horse, but I've converted Bruno's "glitchy" PDF of 2004-2005 pork into a version that can be searched.
This means that the original images are still what you see when you look at the text, but you can also search, copy, and paste the text.
Some caveats:
- I did not attempt to clean up the word recognition at all. That means there is a large amount of incorrectly recognized words in the PDF. That said, searches for a particular Senator or organization should work fairly well.
- The file is 76MB in size. That is smaller than the 100+ MB that Bruno's office provided, but it is still quite large.
I will be processing and posting 2003-2004 in a similar format this week.
You can download the file at: http://www.thealbany...
Enjoy, and happy hunting.
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Fri Dec 01, 2006 at 09:52:03 AM EST
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In Today's Albany Times Union, State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno blamed a computer "glitch" for the fact that the data on pork "member item" spending that he was compelled to release under court order was locked up with password protected security. This security made it rather difficult for members of the public or the press to make any sense of the thousands of pages of rather poorly scanned documents.
Unlike similar documents released by the Assembly, the Senate's can't be readily analyzed with computer software and had special encryption. Bruno blamed a "glitch" in the Senate computer system...
You are lying, Mr Bruno. You know it. I know it.
Those docs weren't encrypted by a "glitch" or by accident. Furthermore, a "glitch" didn't fight the TU tooth and nail to keep that data from the public. A "glitch" didn't decide to make those docs as unusable as possible and dump them the day before Thanksgiving. A "glitch" doesn't employ such a paragon of public service as John "That's all you are going to get" McArdle. A "glitch" doesn't continue to insult the public's right to know about what their elected representatives are doing with public money and a "glitch" isn't now insulting their intelligence.
No, Mr Bruno, that would be you.
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