9 Comments

1. mike hudson says:

   July 9, 2009 at 8:58 pm

   and steve pigeon is the new chief counsel to the senate….and george maziarz is the new chairman of the energy committee. you read it here first.
2. Brian Castner says:

   July 9, 2009 at 9:46 pm

   Of course he will be the majority leader – this is all about titles and perks. As if that wasn’t clear enough already, wasn’t there a deal at one point where both parties got to be in power, and took turns being majority leader? I’m surprised that one didn’t last, because it meant EVERYONE had a leadership position, and GOT PAID.
   How can any New York voter honestly vote for a single incumbent when the Senate is up for re-election. It doesn’t matter who else is running – just vote for the person without an (I).
3. Eisenbart says:

   July 9, 2009 at 10:47 pm

   I’m feeling more apathetic than usual about NYS politics. It’s just so broken. Then when I think I have a firm grasp of just how broken it is they go ahead and blow my mind every.single.time.forever.and.always. Will it ever get better? Are they ever going to lower taxes in upstate and realize we aren’t NYC metro? Are they ever going to let us help ourselves? I think it’s better to not care than be frustrated about it.
4. Chris Smith says:

   July 9, 2009 at 10:54 pm

   Now would be a good time for the Primary Challenge people to begin developing a candidate slate to oppose every single incumbent in the state senate. Unfortunately, they are too busy playing with their teabags and making vague references to armed revolution.

   If I didn’t have two kids, two jobs and a mortgage, I’d probably consider organizing such an effort to get slugs like Volker, Maziarz, Thompson and Stachowski out of office.
5. PJ says:

   July 9, 2009 at 11:52 pm

   I have been a registered Dem for over 33 years and I have never been as disgusted with my party as I am now. If the Senate Dems are going to swim with a peice of shit like Espada the they are going to smell like a shit too. What is the rest of deal? What else did Pigeon and Golisano get out of this? I would switch parties but there are no other viable options. To paraphrase Jackson Brown, maybe I should just be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender. Screw the dysfunctional political system, don’t vote, move to Canada, WTF!!!!
6. Alan Bedenko says:

   July 10, 2009 at 6:15 am

   I think the short-term answer is to abolish the State Senate. The long-term options include redistricting reform and public finance of elections.

   But we can take some comfort in the fact that Pigeon is behind this. Everything he touches generally turns to shit sooner or later.
7. Derek J. Punaro says:

   July 10, 2009 at 7:07 am

   Welcome to New York – where we reward the most incompetent individuals after they’ve proven they have the ability to waste hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars.
8. Greg Sheremeta says:

   July 10, 2009 at 10:38 am

   Someone definitely needs to organize an Oust The Incumbent platform and get all of these idiots out of here — Senate and Assembly.

   Can Primary Challenge do this?