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« on: May 07, 2013, 01:15:20 PM »
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http://politicker.com/2013/05/john-sampson-to-turn-himself-in-to-the-feds-report/
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« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2013, 12:15:02 AM »
Duh. The State Senate here is a cesspool.
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« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2013, 11:54:51 AM »
hahaha
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« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2013, 03:25:16 PM »
More of this, and Coumo may actually be in trouble...
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« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2013, 11:51:20 PM »
Quote from: Ѕenator Αverroës on May 08, 2013, 11:44:54 AM
Quote from: Senator Napoleon on May 08, 2013, 12:15:02 AM
Duh. The State Senate here is a cesspool.

Sounds about right. I'm not a huge Cuomo supporter, but I do approve of the take-no-prisoners approach that he's taken toward the State Senate. If only we could go unicameral.

Letting the State Senate draw an insanely gerrymandered map for themselves is "take-no prisoners"?
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« Reply #5 on: May 15, 2013, 07:16:37 AM »
Quote from: ○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ on May 14, 2013, 11:51:20 PM
Quote from: Ѕenator Αverroës on May 08, 2013, 11:44:54 AM
Quote from: Senator Napoleon on May 08, 2013, 12:15:02 AM
Duh. The State Senate here is a cesspool.

Sounds about right. I'm not a huge Cuomo supporter, but I do approve of the take-no-prisoners approach that he's taken toward the State Senate. If only we could go unicameral.

Letting the State Senate draw an insanely gerrymandered map for themselves is "take-no prisoners"?
Well yeah, in the "ensure everybody who belongs in prison has parliamentary immunity" sense.
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« Reply #6 on: May 15, 2013, 09:04:29 AM »
The NY democrats are so pathetic...
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« Reply #7 on: May 15, 2013, 09:14:59 AM »
Quote from: NewYorkExpress on May 08, 2013, 03:25:16 PM
More of this, and Coumo may actually be in trouble...

How so?
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« Reply #8 on: May 15, 2013, 10:57:40 AM »
He was Attorney general at the time at least some of this was going on... GOP opponents will say he should've gone after these people.
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« Reply #9 on: May 17, 2013, 03:28:35 PM »
Quote from: Ѕenator Αverroës on May 17, 2013, 03:20:53 PM
All I'll say is that Cuomo's handling of the State Senate has been far less gentle than that of his recent predecessors.

Fair. Though things have only come to a head in the last few years, as the Democrats have started having a chance to take over the chamber. That's made corruption a lot worse. Senators  are now constantly taking bribes to support X or Y policy from the opposite party, whereas before the Republicans had a big enough majority that they just controlled the process, and no individual Senator was so important. Things will get better once the Democrats have a similarly dominating majority, but that will probably take a decade or so.
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« Reply #10 on: May 17, 2013, 04:22:05 PM »
Knew it was a Democrat before reading the link. Of course.
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