The corruption is so blatant isn’t it time to say enough is enough …. Change is what we need, ethics, oversight, morals and core values are no longer existant in Albany politics..

GOOD RIDDANCE
September 15, 2006 — State Sen. Ada Smith of Queens was handed her retirement papers Tues day, when voters chose Shirley Huntley, a former community board president, over the temper-challenged “senator from hell.”

Meanwhile, in Brooklyn, Assemblyman Roger Green - who pled guilty to misdemeanor corruption two years ago - finished third (behind racial arsonist and city councilman Charles Barron) in a primary challenge to victorious incumbent Rep. Ed Towns.

In running for Congress, Green surrendered his Assembly seat, so both Albany and Washington, D.C., will be spared his presence.

State Sen. Carl Andrews - a key lieutenant in Clarence Norman’s scandal-ravaged Brooklyn-machine and Al Sharpton’s candidate in the race - came in third in the contentious four-way Brooklyn congressional contest won by Councilwoman Yvette Clarke.

At the same time, however, another Brooklyn machine product - Assemblywoman Diane Gordon, indicted in July on bribery and official misconduct charges - won her three-way primary.

Her victory - after being videotaped soliciting a $500,000 bribe from a developer - is quite troubling.

But, with any luck, Brooklyn prosecutors will take care of Gordon in due course. And, on the whole, the voters got it right.

In the meantime, it is to be hoped that these results presage the beginning of positive change blowing into Albany in the months ahead.