O Albany -- isn't the governance of New York as corrupt and unresponsive as any other state's?

dude kind of looks ti4rn4n/i know, right?

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http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/corruption.png

the least hysterical tabloid coverage of Gov Dave's budget proposal:

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/politics/ny-libudg1217,0,3468917.story

http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/wednesday/longisland/ny-lijani175967917dec17,0,1006688.story

"This is not shared sacrifice," fumed the Working Families Party's Dan Cantor. "The governor proposes to balance the budget in an imbalanced way - by raising taxes on the middle class while simultaneously reducing the services we all rely on."

The WFP favors an income tax surcharge on upper-income state residents, as backed by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan). Some observers strongly suspected yesterday that Paterson laid out a less populistic array of tax and fee hikes knowing that he could end up trading them for just this kind of broader-based tax hike.

downloads tax, oh noes

Paterson's a really sharp dude

"a restructuring of the Empire Zones economic development program to boost job creation" - good, this program is so messed up. okay, it did bring a bunch of part-time retail jobs to my area, but that's...really low standards for economic improvement.

Paterson's a really sharp dude

fucking asshole Paterson appoints conservative upstate gun-nut congresswoman to Senate.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/state/ny-pocaro236009107jan23,0,7517130.story

like any of the other possible candidates were so great. i was glad he at least picked someone from upstate as it is actually part of the state

uh o fite

lol politics

i maintain i wouldve been an amzing senator for new york and shouldve been chosen

Nydia Velazquez woulda been fine.

yah or ME

too many incriminating photos

i will just sell myself as the first facebook generation politician

Well this can cheer Morbz up:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/bruno-faces-mail-and-wire-fraud-charges/

(Yes, too little too late, etc.)

lol epic scumbag

such a gangster

re gillibrand, gun issues are low on my list of pressing concerns, so i don't care too much about that. but i went to check the "issues" part of her website and found this:

All individuals, families and businesses deserve to have the ability to buy into a health care plan at a rate that they can afford. Competition in the private insurance industry is critical to reign in health care costs and improve quality of care for the patient.

people who confuse "reign" and "rein" should not be in the senate.

tbf she prob didnt write that

and tbh i wouldnt care at all if my senator confused the two

rein v reign = way worse than having gay sex w 17-yr-olds, IMO

^^^^
otm.

I'm off today, so I watched the majority of the press conference. My first thought was that she looked like Renee Zellwegger, but when she opened her mouth, she actually sounds like her too!

how does NRA rate Zellweger?

so Kirsten interned for D'Amato and her lawyer father is "politically connected."... to Joe Bruno, among others.

What a breath of fresh air.

Tom Robbins on the machine-made sen.

http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-01-28/columns/david-paterson-and-kirsten-gillibrand-new-senator-new-scandal/

polls show Paterson-lol at 40% approval, he shakes up staff:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/paterson-reorganizes-staff-from-top-dow/

peace out rockefeller drug laws

how did what just happened happen?

two real winners

the guy for sale, with the girlfriend-beater in tow

ugh

i thought nj state politics were retarded

yeah can someone explain this to me?

some retards were less retarded than other retards in the short run

the fuck happened in albany?

what happened are you guys ok

i literally thought my newspaper was trolling me this morning when i read it - i had to check to make sure it wasnt an april fools issue or some shit

WHAT HAPPENED

ARE MAX & DR MORBIUS OK

WHY WERE THEY IN ALBANY IN THE FIRST PLACE

long story short i think, our senators tried to have a coup and now the repubs are saying they have control of state senate. i'm really dumbing this down tho

yes.

on the bright side... nothing has really changed?

golisano is a fuckin trip

a trip to Florida

the circus whirls on

http://gothamist.com/2009/06/15/hiram_monserrate_tells_daily_news_h.php

favorite part of this clown show so far is the prospect of a 31-31 split senate with no lt. gov. to break the tie (because of course the lt. gov. had to become gov). and the corollary claim by espada that that means he now gets two votes.

someone needs to take out tom golisano

I agree. and the answer to the poll question is an unqualified yes. If these idiots paid as much attention to governance as they did to these ridiculous parliamentary and partisan shenanigans, then NY might not be in the position it's in. NJ's not much better, unfortunately.

seriously though i thought the douchebag was moving to florida

I know Cuomo is still a goblin, but I can't lie, I love it when it attacks McConnell and Republicans over holding back COVID funding to New York, bringing up that we pay out way more federal money than comes in, year and year out And he reminded that we always fund hurricanes and floods and disasters (rightfully) but now that we need the money, as the hardest hit state, now there's all this bullshit. Glad that someone is actually standing up and fucking saying it.

https://t.co/pWiVrGkcT7

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) June 23, 2020

https://gothamist.com/news/cuomo-launches-terrible-rent-relief-measure-giving-tenants-just-two-weeks-sign-

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Edn3M1HXkAAH0MC?format=png&name=large

what a loser

cuomo blowing up decades of mutually-understood lax food service enforcement more or less due to a tantrum of his own devising is very cuomo https://t.co/4AceFNiPTh

— Nathan Bernhardt (@jonbernhardt) July 23, 2020

grandstanding nitwit

https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2020/07/28/cuomo-offers-every-mlb-team-a-home-in-new-york-1303802

https://t.co/MKKo6GK1wh

— Conrad Tao (@conradtao) July 29, 2020

Is the governor aware that the Hamptons is still New York? These folks have not actually left New York, a thing the governor, without evidence, keeps claiming will happen. https://t.co/HWikkHzsDd

— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) August 3, 2020

https://gothamist.com/news/brooklyn-voters-receive-absentee-ballot-envelopes-wrong-voter-names-and-addresses

CHECK. YOUR. BALLOT. ENVELOPES.

Mine was incorrect; can confirm this is happening

NEW: Cuomo says he is offering National Guard ... to pick up garbage in NYC

— Zach Williams (@ZachReports) September 29, 2020

I knew there was a ny state thread just couldn’t recall the name. Anyways

buh bye

despicable lawyer strategy is to just stand there and discredit the accusers of course.

Andy Stepping down

Wow, still thought he would hang on to the bitter end.

what a beta

He sexually harassed himself right out of office.

fuck him.

i love how conservatives try to use Cuomo as a whataboutism gotcha. we hate him too u fucks

hanging on to the bitter end costs a lot more

Lasted longer than I thought he would... but he was plum out of allies

BRING BACK THE ‘TAPPAN ZEE’

A Ronan Farrow story on Cuomo's questionable tactics against Preet Bharara had been put up on The New Yorker website this morning:

Update: hours after the publication of this story, Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation, saying it will be effective in 14 days.

— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) August 10, 2021

PR Executive named Ken Sunshine has to go in the Pynchon names list.

eat shit cuomo

― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, August 3, 2021 10:47 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Fuuuuuck Ronan Farrow. Can we be rid of him too now?

I have a strange respect for him now that I've learned his favorite snack is sardines with cottage cheese.

That's not respect, that's catharsis.

Fuuuuuck Ronan Farrow. Can we be rid of him too now?

― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, August 10, 2021 2:44 PM (thirty-one minutes ago)

wait is he bad?

He just strikes me as a smarmy prick and I'm bored with his hero status.

🙄

I have to hand it to him though. His instinct for self-promotion as displayed in that tweet is keen.

I can't stand watching Ronan talk when he's interviewed, but I'm glad he's done some hard work shining a light on horrible people.

Also, lol @ dunking on a writer for self-promotion on Twitter in 2021. C'mon, that's 98% of the timeline.

I meant specifically the implication that his article led directly to Cuomo's resignation.

I could imagine Cuomo lying low for a few years, getting married, loudly acknowledging how much he learned from his mistakes, and running for office again.

Oh, haha, I didn't catch that implication at first, but yes that is telling.

Weird detail jumping out at my from that Ronan Farrow article, sorry. Lady who served as the Moreland Commission’s chief of investigations was also Michael Avenatti's lawyer at one point.

can you just fire every woman