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Senate in Albany???? — Brooklynian

Senate in Albany????

domino
domino
edited November -1 in Brooklyn Politics
I am flummoxed (I always wanted to use that word at least once) by the reports coming in from Albany - what the hell is going on???? I was not exactly sure what I was watching/hearing - one party locked the other party out? They disconnected the microphones?

Exactly HOW much do these children get paid to represent me?

Can I get my vote back due to fraud or more precisely MISrepresentation?

Comments

  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    it would be great if voters could/would recall people, like in CA.

    ...but I'm not sure it would happen b/c everyone always somehow believes that their representative is somehow not part of the problem.
  • domino
    domino
    Foolish Ghoul for Senate!!!!! Congress???

    Please define you lack of qualifications and rates for specific bribes up front.
  • boygabriel
    boygabriel
    The NYS Legislature makes me ashamed in so many ways.
  • danielle123
    danielle123
    I really cannot read The Post anymore (which used to be fun for one subway ride's worth of gossip and a good summary of NYC water-cooler talk) but I try to at least see the front-page headline. Today's cover made me laugh out loud in front of tourists near Grand Central. Gotta love the clown faces:
    http://www.nypost.com/seven/06242009/frontback.htm
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    Domino wrote: Foolish Ghoul for Senate!!!!! Congress???

    Please define you lack of qualifications and rates for specific bribes up front.
    ...I seek to be appointed to an office, not elected.
  • danielle123
    danielle123
    Good luck with that.
  • bohuma
    bohuma
    The NY legislature is the way it is because for at least the last hundred years party political machines have engineered the electoral system to ensure that party hacks, and only party hacks, get elected. Unfortunately, these crooks have such a stranglehold on the electoral system that there is no way to change it without their consent. Be prepared for more of the same.
  • domino
    domino
    Bohuma - I hear ya. I tried to get involved at the most basic level and felt stymied. When I lived in Dyker, I tried to apply for a position on Community Board 11. NOTHING. The entire group seemed likes patients in death's waiting room (average age was dead) and unless an issue related directly to their interests was tabled there were no visible signs of life. Community Board 10 (Bay Ridge) was no different. You almost felt as if you were intruding into a private club.
  • sweet tea
    sweet tea
    i want a refund for the past several weeks. i'm completely serious. and not just salaries -- i want the cost of benefits, too, and whatever it cost to actually open the state house, the catering trays i saw in the nyt photos, everything.

    disgusting.
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    we clearly need a modern Ralph Nader type character.
  • domino
    domino
    ANASATSIA BEAVERHAUSEN FOR SENATE!
  • brooklynjack
    brooklynjack
    bohuma wrote: The NY legislature is the way it is because for at least the last hundred years party political machines have engineered the electoral system to ensure that party hacks, and only party hacks, get elected. Unfortunately, these crooks have such a stranglehold on the electoral system that there is no way to change it without their consent. Be prepared for more of the same.
    Yes, but the current problem is that there is no Lt Governor, since the former Lt Governor is now Governor and no one took his place and since there are currently an equal number of donkeys and elephants, and no Lt Governor to break tie votes, there is a power struggle.
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    ...correct.

    but broader reform is what the system needs. A real third party, for example.
  • brooklynjack
    brooklynjack
    whynot_31 wrote: ...correct.

    but broader reform is what the system needs. A real third party, for example.
    Then what's next? Proportional representation? It's a slippery slope
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