Bruno hints he may quit soon
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  Former Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno gave mixed signals today about whether he intends to resign from his seat before his term is up at the end of the year.
“I’m going to exit – the sooner the better,’’ Bruno said in an interview on Am-1300 in Albany. “I don’t want to create confusion’‘Â about who is in charge.
But then he said, “nothing is conclusive.’’
Bruno, 79, was majority leader for 14 years before quitting the leadership post last week. But he is still a senator until the end of the year, unless he decides to resign from office.
If he does step down, the Republicans would have a mere one-seat majority in the Senate: 31-30. That won’t mean anything if the Senate doesn’t return to the Capitol before the end of the year. But odds are the lawmakers will be back, maybe as soon as before the end of the month, to act on a tax-cap proposal.
They could also come back after the Nov. 4 election to raise the pay of lawmakers to take office in January.
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“THANK GOD WE HAVE GREG BALL PROTECTING US!!”
——Greg Ball
the tax cap proposal is not the best solution and they need to get to work on the best plan possible.
If they come back in Nov. just to vote on a raise….none of the lawmakers deserve a raise. They should be working all summer to earn their hefty paychecks instead of campaigning. If they do that, they will be re-elected because the problem of basing school tax on home value is old and outdated.
Get to work lawmakers and do the job you were elected to do.
Maybe there is something more to all those rumors about Joe and the feds.
A one seat majority welcome to Washington DC were the Democ”rats” enjoy a one seat Majority.
VJ Machiavelli
http://www.vjmachiavelli.blogspot.com
ps This election is all about shoes, yes shoes do we keep them on or do we take them off and never put them on again.
the heat must be on
The heat IS on. And while it makes Bruno sweat, it’s about time that some of it wafted on little cat feet under the door and into the files of Mr. Silver.
Our government, in its infinite wisdom, sees fit to allow both Princes and peasants to seek-out and retain expensive law firms to defend their rights under the First Amendment. If publishers are disinterested in preserving and defending this noble, necessary bulwark against the tyranny of the devil, we are all lost. As Anatole France wrote, (a pen-name, by the way), “The majestic quality of the law…prohibits the wealthy as well as the poor to sleep under bridges.”