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What’s wrong with the NYS Senate?
Here are 61 very good reasons why.
19 thoughts on “What’s wrong with the NYS Senate?”
Also, nice to get a face on some of those names I’ve been hearing about. In particular, Lanza, Aubertine, Abbaddo, Serrano, Espada, Padavan, Diaz, etc..
However, what is this an advertisement for?
I agree that as a whole, the New York Senate is rather corrupt and unresponsive. However, that does not necessarily mean that each individual Senator shares those characteristics.
makes his photo vaguely resemble all those Annie Leibovitz promo pics she used to do for The Sopranos.
Cuomo be able to get anything done? Will he actually be able to govern in the mess that is New York politics? I have hopes for him, but it just seems like he may be in the same boat Spitzer was in before the sex scandal. Let’s hope I’m wrong.
of the branches of NYS government. The problem is no one is cleaning up even one of the branches so that voters can go on and clean up the others.
That was the grand disappointment of Spitzer- he apparently didn’t do any reform in the executive branch before tanking himself. So NY now has two pathetic legislative chambers and a cosmetically different executive.
I’m a comment virgin so here goes nothing. I am really curious about New York and New Jersey. As someone born in the south from a New England(massachusetts) parent I am already inherently biased against New York. However, something peaks my interest. How can legislatures in Maine and New Hampshire, which are much more purple states then New York, pass gay marriage bills and New York cant?
The trains my move better. But in which direction? I see each one of them individually being bought off by the gas companies to drill right by the New York City watershed and all I can do is roll my eyes. Because few of them can lose. And the ones that can lose generally are the good ones who should be kept around. (In a more just world Janele Hyer-Spencer would NOT be the most endangered Democrat).
Personally I’d like to see a unicameral legislature like in Nebraska. With the senate apportioned by population like the assembly (albeit with slightly larger districts) there is no reason why a second body is needed other than to just emulate the federal government. Ideally I’d like a non-partisan commission doing the districts to avoid stuff like “Abraham Lincoln riding a vacuum cleaner.” And I wouldn’t mind some form of term limits though with a longer and more flexible time frame to avoid the massive turnovers you see in California.
Read the diary rules:
Aim for three original paragraphs of writing.
Don’t copy-and-paste entire copyrighted articles.
It’s not fair to everyone else when you put a diary up like this that requires zero effort and could just as easily be posted in the open thread. Three out of the ten diaries currently listed on the front page are 2 sentences or less. James, David, and Crisitunity, please enforce these rules again, I think it is the only way people will respect them.
Also, nice to get a face on some of those names I’ve been hearing about. In particular, Lanza, Aubertine, Abbaddo, Serrano, Espada, Padavan, Diaz, etc..
However, what is this an advertisement for?
I agree that as a whole, the New York Senate is rather corrupt and unresponsive. However, that does not necessarily mean that each individual Senator shares those characteristics.
makes his photo vaguely resemble all those Annie Leibovitz promo pics she used to do for The Sopranos.
Cuomo be able to get anything done? Will he actually be able to govern in the mess that is New York politics? I have hopes for him, but it just seems like he may be in the same boat Spitzer was in before the sex scandal. Let’s hope I’m wrong.
of the branches of NYS government. The problem is no one is cleaning up even one of the branches so that voters can go on and clean up the others.
That was the grand disappointment of Spitzer- he apparently didn’t do any reform in the executive branch before tanking himself. So NY now has two pathetic legislative chambers and a cosmetically different executive.
I’m a comment virgin so here goes nothing. I am really curious about New York and New Jersey. As someone born in the south from a New England(massachusetts) parent I am already inherently biased against New York. However, something peaks my interest. How can legislatures in Maine and New Hampshire, which are much more purple states then New York, pass gay marriage bills and New York cant?
The trains my move better. But in which direction? I see each one of them individually being bought off by the gas companies to drill right by the New York City watershed and all I can do is roll my eyes. Because few of them can lose. And the ones that can lose generally are the good ones who should be kept around. (In a more just world Janele Hyer-Spencer would NOT be the most endangered Democrat).
Personally I’d like to see a unicameral legislature like in Nebraska. With the senate apportioned by population like the assembly (albeit with slightly larger districts) there is no reason why a second body is needed other than to just emulate the federal government. Ideally I’d like a non-partisan commission doing the districts to avoid stuff like “Abraham Lincoln riding a vacuum cleaner.” And I wouldn’t mind some form of term limits though with a longer and more flexible time frame to avoid the massive turnovers you see in California.
Read the diary rules:
It’s not fair to everyone else when you put a diary up like this that requires zero effort and could just as easily be posted in the open thread. Three out of the ten diaries currently listed on the front page are 2 sentences or less. James, David, and Crisitunity, please enforce these rules again, I think it is the only way people will respect them.