Is It Time To file A Lawsuit Against Albany?
By Rus Thompson

November 5, 2004 . . .While the majority of the country is moving forward, New York is still in reverse. The same old people, with the same old baggage are once more on their way back to Albany. Their Mission this time, Reform Albany, in other words, “to fix what they broke” …

Our dictators are Sheldon Silver, Joe Bruno and the governor, name of the governor doesn’t matter, they all serve in the same capacity just happens this term’s Gov De Jour is Spitzer, last one was Pataki and before him, Mario Cuomo…

The individual legislators are virtually useless. We don’t need them. If we want to keep this form of government, we can save hundreds of millions of dollars a year by eliminating the Assembly and Senate, all their staff, their lawyers and their special perks.

It is time that we file a lawsuit to regain representative government in New York State. I am absolutely serious about this.

It is absolutely useless to send these people back to this form of government. The individual assemblyman and senator are powerless and are cut out of the legislative process so we have no voice. Legislators only support what their political leaders tell them to support.

The leaders are Silver and Bruno. They and they only control everything in their individual houses. Since each has total control of each piece of legislation that is introduced in their own house, each has equal to the Governor concerning legislative matters.

The leader of each house also appoints the committee chairman and can remove and appoint a chair at any time, there by controlling each committee and the outcome.

So when we hear that something is stuck in a “committee” we should know who controls the committee and it’s not the chairman, it’s Silver or Bruno. The chairman serves only at the pleasure of the leader.
The Brennan report found that the State’s legislative committees do little real work, have few hearings on Bills and release almost no reports to its members making voting decisions.

The leader also appoints all staff, attorneys and appoints members from their own party to the committee. The leader controls pork barrel funding and re-election campaign funds.

So to be a successful legislator all you have to do is suck up to your leader, do what he tells you to do. Then you will get pork money for your district and re-elected. Talk about incumbent protection.

So why, why do we even need all the senators and assemblymen. If they go back and vote for the same leaders and same process, we need to file a lawsuit to regain representative government in New York State.

The economy of New York State is not the President’s fault as the democrats would like you to believe. The economy was lousy here when Bill Clinton was in office.

We have missed every upswing in the national economy for decades and the only place that is responsible is Albany. The only people responsible for the disastrous condition of this state is all the people we have sent to represent us to Albany.