I will be checking with an Attorney and would like your advice on this
It is high time we take back control of the Legislative process in Albany!
Thank you to wben.com and Tom Bauerle for the NY Flag
Posted on 11/05/2004 4:52:25 AM PST by The Mayor
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" ...20 years and 2000 re-election campaigns only 30 incumbents have been defeated and not one on time budget... Their #1 job is to pass a budget. And they are going back to fix and reform the legislative process?
The Albany Legislators continue to circumvent the Law and fool the people. We do not have a Representative form of government as designed, In reality we have a dictatorship, a three men in a room dictatorship. I wish I could sit down with everyone in the state and explain it, funny thing is, when I have a chance to talk to people with an open mind it's fairly easy to get them to understand. But to put into words on a website it hard.
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 terms Gov De Jour is Pataki, last one was 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 100's 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 absolutley serious about this.
It is absolutley 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 equeal 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 States legislative committees do little real work, have few hearings on Bills and release almost no reports to it's 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 Presidents fault as the democrats would like you to beleive, 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 responsible for the disastrious condition of this state is all the people we have sent to represent us to Albany.
I would like to Thank The Brennan report and Duane Motley from New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms for the information.
Thank you to wben.com and Tom Bauerle for the NY Flag
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Your input please..
Ping to the freepers of New York State..
I will post a link to this article in my website and e mail this to all the legislators in the state.
I have the addresses to All of our senators and assemblymen.
ping for an excellent effort. much over due.
The voters had their chance. Instead of holding the politicians accountable, the NY voters elected more liberals. They are gluttons for punnishment.
Thanks, can you ping any NYers?
This really needs to be done!
They had their chance to mount a campaign against the incumbents and failed miserably once again.
The main problem is when the all go back to Albany will they vote for the same leaders and the same process.
If they do, we are done for another 2 years.
Silver and Bruno must be stopped and I will do everything I can to stop this insane dictatorship!
If you ever get tired, we'd welcome more small-government conservatives here in New Hampshire - about 10,000, to be exact.
It is such a shame, when I lived in Mass, NH was alot more conservative.
What happened to that beautiful State!
You can add me to the list.
Upstate NY can be a marvelously wonderful place to live and is full of great people. But, decades of corrupt, liberal rule based in the large city machines have turned it into a gasping rural fiefdom struggling to survive on the edge as they are sucked dry by the socialist city and it's environs who hold all the political power. Take a look at the red/blue map. Like California or any other blue state on the skids, it's easy to see what's going on there by looking at the map.
Medicaid mandates, welfare and the government dependent society is killing us.
Albany tells us what to do and we have to pay the bill.
Did you know?
- New York State's $41 billion Medicaid program is larger than the Medicaid budgets of California and Texas combined?
- Erie County's Medicaid cost has increased by $81 million since 1999 and will rise by another $29 million in 2005.
- That New York State runs Medicaid and sends Erie County the bill.
Bruno to make changes To what degree Joe?
Job cuts, tax hikes expected in county budget
James Fink
Business First
Erie County Executive Joel Giambra will release his 2005 budget proposal Friday morning at 10:30 and early indications are it will include drastic measures, including deep job cuts, reductions to various agencies including libraries and possibly a property tax increase.
The budget, which must be approved by the Erie County Legislature by early December, is considered draconian in light of the continually rising Medicaid costs that Giambra has said are strangling county coffers
Giambra, in trying to avoid major cuts in personnel and services, is seeking approval from both state and county lawmakers to raise the sales tax from 8.25 percent to 9.25 percent to help cover the estimated budget deficit, which may top $130 million.
As for any detailed hints about what the budget may have in store, Giambra administration officials have remained tight lipped.
"All I can say is that we're still working on it and expect to be working on it through the night and into the morning," said Jeff Hammond, Giambra's spokesman.
http://buffalo.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2004/11/01/daily38.html
WBEN will carry the budget speech by Giambra live this morning..
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Good morning!!
Morning phancypants!
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