Comments on: Senate Comes In, Leaves Together

By: smartporpoise

smartporpoise — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:13:46 +0000

Let’s face it – they stick her behind the podium so that any Republican who questions her standing can be easily accused of racism and misogyny. Ever playing to the vulgar crowd. Sick bunch.

By: niceneasy

niceneasy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:21:41 +0000

to bad the paper doesn’t print that cousins sat on the podium statrting at 6am, what a joke. Thought she was going to Albany to straighten everthing out, what a joke she is and has been, People may not have liked Nick Spano but at least he did his job, more then I can say for her, why doesn’t the paper question her on what is going on and why she sits up there like the Queen of Shebia hiding from her constituents. Nobody in the district will remember all this in 2yrs which is unfortunate!

By: ed1

ed1 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:27:21 +0000

Problem: You can’t vote them out. Their districts (Assembly as well as the Senate,) have been gerrymandered so that, for instance, the Democratic candidate who complains the most and hollers the loudest about racism and brings back the pork to their streets wins. The voters there have no interest in centrism, fairness, good government or anything else, for that matter, that doesn’t conform to THEIR local and personal interests, and none of this is going to change by one, or ten-thousand, reporters calling for sanity. Districts have to be re-drawn so that a candidate has to appeal to a variety of people of differing viewpoints, creating more centrist leadership. Obama, on a national level, had to make sense to a wide range of voters, not just radicals, or he would never have been elected. And he must keep doing it, and find a fair middle, or he will be toast in 3 years, the way it should be.