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Senate or kindergarten?

June
10

Most readers don’t hold the politicians in Albany in high regard and the latest shenanigans from the state’s Capitol — a Republican-led coup in the Senate — is reinforcing their views that state government is dysfunctional.

One reader lamented:

Nothing surprises me any more about the most dysfunctional legislature in the entire country, a legislature run with scant concern for the public interest, where leaders pad their pockets and get rich on part-time work. in both chambers minority members get no rights and constituents’ needs are ignored just because they happen to have made the ‘wrong’ choice on election day. Democrats in charge of both chambers and the governorship didn’t run Albany any better than when power was divided.

Another scoffed:
These are your representatives that you voted for … so enjoy the revue. It’s on your dime.

Members of both parties are coming under fire from readers, many of whom think that the lawmakers are completely out of control.
The more things change the more they stay the same. These people didn’t learn anything in kindergarten,

wrote a reader, while another added.
I think all these buffoons should be voted out! There’s not a good one in the bunch.

Another person had this to say:
This is what do-nothing politicians do when they can’t make procedural decisions regarding a new budget. For any of these ham and eggers to say they are working in the best interest of the tax-paying public is at best a joke, just like the job they are suppose to do, but don’t quite get around to doing.

Some are wondering how all of this will affect state residents:
Now you know this is just going to cost us whether you are a Democrat or Republican.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 at 10:04 am by Tracey Princiotta. | Email This Post Email This Post

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