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

Feel free to discuss our next female celebrity senator, Gov Paterson's bootlicking of the rich, satanic crook Joe Bruno's career "change" to lobbyist, etc.

WA may not be as corrupt, but it's probably far more unresponsive than NY.

I hear from ex non west coasters all the time "corrupt governors get shit done"

also thread title --> morbzissey

1 louisiana
2 Illinois
3 new york

yeah, we've all seen the post-Blago convicted officials per capita charts. It's a rhetorical question.

http://www.danielsquadron.org/images/Front-Page-Portrait.jpg

btw i sort of know this 27 y/o guy who just got elected to the state senate from downtown brooklyn and lower manhattan

Feel free to discuss our next female celebrity senator, Gov Paterson's bootlicking of the rich, satanic crook Joe Bruno's career "change" to lobbyist, etc.

or not

good job shoehorning in a shit reference tho

I'd "stfu" but as you've sunk to incoherent babbling, let me see if I have a quarter.

tough times

dude kind of looks ti4rn4n/i know, right?

xpost

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

The final part of the application process requires a phone call to an actual person, and I've seen lots of reports of people using autodialers, trying for a week, and never getting through. So this is going to be fun.

yeah i've heard the same thing. what else am i gonna do

California's Democratic Party seems to be equally full of unprincipled careerists and industry-captured lackeys as New York's but with far fewer outright saboteurs and Republican collaborators. And a higher level of basic competence. I would trade in a heartbeat!

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) April 13, 2020

There are almost 1000 people infected in NY prisons (staff and people incarcerated). These numbers are only going to get worse, and yet Gov. Cuomo hasn't given a single reprieve or commutation, even though he has the absolute authority to do it. He is responsible for this. https://t.co/XxDDWRvWi5

— Rachel Barkow (@RachelBarkow) April 18, 2020

still waitin' on Google?

https://gothamist.com/news/coronavirus-unemployment-benefits-in-ny-is-still-a-kafkaesque-mess

Of the $10.1 billion in spending cuts Andrew Cuomo will foist on New York, more than $8 billion will be for aid-to-localities. What does this mean? Everything. Public schools, mass transit, social services. The stuff New Yorkers need a budget for.

— Ross Barkan (@RossBarkan) April 26, 2020

Ah austerity, good

nycabsentee.com

to get urs absentee ballot

tyvm

I think I can write in Lupe Fiasco for the primary

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