The Republican committees of 11 counties made their choice Wednesday. Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava of Gouverneur, who represents three northern towns of Oswego County, will be their pick to try to keep the 23rd Congressional District seat held by John McHugh.
Meantime, national Republicans rolled out the first wave of negative attacks on the man they think will be the Democratic party’s candidate.
You’re angry. A new poll from Siena College says that New Yorkers are overwhelmingly angry at their state politicians and plan to hold onto that anger until they get a chance to vote.
Siena, which polls on statewide political questions regularly, finds 74% of people polled said they had an unfavorable opinion of the State Senate after its month-long leadership struggle. Back in February, only 43% held an unfavorable view.
The Senate met as a complete body for the first time in a month because the Democrat who flipped to the Republicans in exchange for something good for himself flopped back to the Democrats in exchange for something good for himself.
Well, that didn’t take long.
At 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, Governor David Paterson appointed a Lieutenant Governor in an attempt to end the two-party standoff in the State Senate.
By 1:00 a.m., a judge blocked the appointment.
Richard Ravitch, the former head of the Metropolitan Transit Agency in NYC, who saved it from severe money troubles.
Here he is, in a photo from the state website. He’s on the left:
State Senator Darrel Aubertine is suing the State Assembly to try to
force the Assembly to take up bills the Senate Democrats say they
passed, but which may not be legal.
With Election Day now behind us, I’d like to take this opportunity to commend everyone who voted. We had a tremendous turnout and I also want to thank everyone who took part in the process.
State Sen. Darrel J. Aubertine today expressed his disappointment that lawmakers returned to Albany, but took no action to modify this year’s budget to close budget gaps.
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