Tuesday, December 19, 2006
3 men, 1 room, zero progress Pataki, Silver and Bruno have one, last private session.
Times Herald-Record
"There was a kind of warped justice in that final three-way tango engaged in last week by Gov. George Pataki, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno. After a full day of changing partners, dance steps, demands and concessions on legislation — all behind closed doors, of course — New York's power-brokering troika emerged with ... nothing.
Thank goodness and, we hope, good riddance to this dance of dysfunction. Gov.-elect Eliot Spitzer has promised that his administration would be open and accessible and would not engage in the kind of routine backroom-dealing that the above named have substituted for governing in the Empire State. The days of three men in a room deciding the fate of all kinds of important legislation, we are told, are over. OK, we're counting on you, Eliot.'
Eliot will deliver the reform goods.......you can bet on it!!!!!!!!! to continue click here andy
"There was a kind of warped justice in that final three-way tango engaged in last week by Gov. George Pataki, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno. After a full day of changing partners, dance steps, demands and concessions on legislation — all behind closed doors, of course — New York's power-brokering troika emerged with ... nothing.
Thank goodness and, we hope, good riddance to this dance of dysfunction. Gov.-elect Eliot Spitzer has promised that his administration would be open and accessible and would not engage in the kind of routine backroom-dealing that the above named have substituted for governing in the Empire State. The days of three men in a room deciding the fate of all kinds of important legislation, we are told, are over. OK, we're counting on you, Eliot.'
Eliot will deliver the reform goods.......you can bet on it!!!!!!!!! to continue click here andy
