Move Sing Sing?
  While upstate communities have been fighting – and winning- to keep prisons open that the state wants to close, a Westchester lawmaker said she would love to get rid of a local prison.
“Too bad we just couldn’t move Sing Sing upstate,’’ said Assemblywoman Sandra Galef, D-Ossining, musing that the prime riverfront property that the prison occupies could be used for far more productive purposes.
Alas, Sing Sing is a maximum-security prison, and the state has few empty beds in those. The ones that the Department of Correctional Services wanted to close – but was thwarted by the Legislature – were medium and minimum-security facilities.
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Galef is a moron. She doesn’t know what she’s talking about. Just one more loser up in Albany who is part of the problem.
Forget about this hair-brained idea to move the prison, and jobs, out of our area – What is she doing about taxes? Raising them again?
Right – we could give the riverfront property away to some developer, along with enormous tax concessions, and then hire more police, fire, and educational personnel at the public’s expense. These legislators couldn’t change a flat tire, even with a manual, never mind be capable of voting knowledgeably and intelligently on billion and multi-billion dollar issues.
It figures she does not know the differance between a maximum security prison and a minimum security prison. She has only represented that area since 1993 in the Assembly and in the County legislature before that. She is a typical Liberal Democrat, who always cradles criminals and does not care about the average citizen.
People are losing jobs every day. What does are Assembly person want to do. Take more jobs out of our area. Shame, Shame on you.
The State Budget is do on April 1. She should be concerned about getting that done on time and not worried about taking jobs out of our area.
Galef does fit right in with that zoo in Albany, doesn’t she? A natural fit. Before Ed gets to it, here’s one for Galef from Jay and the Americans: “Let’s lock the door and throw away the key now.”
As Benny Goodman said: “Sing, Sing, Sing.”
You bloggers are all arrogant dumbbells.
You sit in invisible judgement on people, criticize them because YOU don’t know what they do…
Well, what do YOU do?
Come out from behind your hidden personas. What business have YOU run? What organization have YOU successfully led? Tell us the basis of your accomplishments so we can judge if YOU can judge the people you dump on so frequently.
You proclaim all govt stupid and arrogant – do you read the budget? Do you undersatand even one iota beyond what the newspapers tell you?
If so, PROVE IT. Manifest your positive intelligence so we can determine if YOU should sit in judgement on everybody else.
THIS BLOG-OCRACY is just a forum for malcontents!!! Sit at your computer night after night, all flail away. People with lives are out doing something, not sitting around with a never-ending stream of vitriol.
I’d say the occasionally esteemed people who read this political blog do follow events closely. They also have other lives, but post their observations on breaks, at lunchtime, from their offices or laptops, or in the evenings, etc.
It is evident some are on the political side of the house themselves. Others are professionals of one kind or another. Most seem intelligent.
However, even the world’s biggest morons could and do know what a snakepit Albany is. How corrupt it is. How slimy it is. How useless it is. How unprofessional it is. Even its weather is terrible half the year.
But there is good news. It is reported that even Albany pols have a good side. For instance, many are kind to animals. As proof of that assessment, the cat houses in Albany are said to be in fine condition.
Well, Stupidity, I’ll give to you a tiny peek. I blog here because I am on this computer at all odd hours because I happen to be a professional writer with a Master’s Degree from a prestigious University which will remain nameless so that you cannot bomb it. At one time, before embarking upon a writing career, I was an Associate Professor at highly-rated college which will remain nameless on this page for the same reason. My father was the president on the local level of a prominent political party, so I pretty much grew up with politics and politicos, both good and bad, both honest and duplicitous. I own my own house on a paltry half-acre, and have no mortgage. I own a ‘57 TBird, a ‘99 Vette and an ‘08 Honda Accord. Nice to meet you.
OK Stupidity On Display, you are better than all of us, you are an elitist, you are much smarter than the average person. All of us bloggers are hard working individuals who work for a living. We are the back bone of our community. We are the people who deliver your mail, we are the plummers that you call when your toilet is stopped up. We may also be the person who baby sits your children when you are out,
We choose substance over symbolism. We believe that a person who represents you should understand the community that they represent.
We want them to take care of the real issues that our state and community is having. She and other legislators just do not understand what is happening around them. They just do not get it.
No, A Stupid Person, I’m not an elitist at all. I’m just a regular guy tired of all of the snide, snotty comments that abide on these blogs. You work hard everyday, and I do too. I reacted to the acid comments that people make about others, and I wanted to know what makes them so great that they can dump on others so casually. The writers act as if everybody else is stupid – I wrote to ask “who are you to sit in judgement?”.
I believe, like you, an elected official should know their community. And I know a few of them – and they’re not all the awful things that are posted about them – stupid, corrupt, venal etc. THAT’S ALL YOU GET ON THESE PAGES!
You say Ms. Galef and the rest don’t get it. I disagree. I think most people don’t even know what these people know, because they read an article in the newspaper, but they don’t meet with the officials themselves. The article – like the blogger – says something nasty, and everybody picks up on it. And repeats it.
I think people love blaming politicians, period. They don’t want to know the specifics of an issue, how hard it may be – it’s just flat-out cooler to trash them. I’m reacting to the one-sidedness of it all.
Does anyone know how Assemblywoman Sandra Galef voted on the prisons that the legislature thwarted?
It would be interesting if she voted to not close the ones that the Department of Correctional Services wanted to close. But she wants to close Sing Sing
You guys are reading too much into it. Ms. Galef was just offering an opinion on Sing Sing. I’m quite sure she knows that it would be next to impossible to close it and set up shop somewhere else. I don’t know if Ossining gets any sort of tax benefit from the state in return for having it there, but I’d bet that Ossining wouldn’t mind having the tax revenue from some sort of development there.
these blogs are a way for people to express a political
opinion, vent about their own feelings, express themselves
in writing some eloquent and some not, and otherwise participate in the equivalent of the old town hall meetings
You are quite free not to participate if you so choose…On
the otherhand why don’t you watch the HBO miniseries John
Adams..to get an idea of why people have the need to express
themselves..its called democracy..and for stupidity on display to attempt to cut that discussion off conveys a certain elitist mindset reminiscent of what Bill Buckley
wrote about in “God and Man at Yale”....I expect you
can leave the site and your judgemental attitudes will
not be particular missed…
Hey, the consultant good points.
i’m a guard at ossining, been there for the past 3 1/2 years – making 50 grand for my full time job, not 80 grand for a part timer like the bozos in albany. i don’t know nothing about sandra galef but saying that we should move sing sing upstate is a ridiculous idea that will cost this area hundreds of jobs, not just corrections officers like myself, but everybody from administrative and clerical staff to janitors. maybe ms. galef thinks that in this economy its a good idea to put all those people out of work and move me and my family upstate but i don’t. i think the idea sucks and i hope nyscoba takes a stand against galef whenever she is up again for re-elect.
She obviously wasn’t serious about the idea of moving sing sing upstate. It is something she said in passing. Get a grip.