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Son of Key Figure in N.Y. Senate Coup Gets Job in Chamber ($120K job for state senator's son)
WSJ | AP ^ | 8/11/09

Posted on 08/12/2009 2:38:08 PM PDT by LibWhacker

ALBANY, N.Y. -- The son of a powerful state senator instrumental in this summer's Senate coup was given a newly created $120,000 job in the chamber in the latest political appointment during the governor's hiring freeze.

Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada's son, Pedro G. Espada, holds the new job of Senate liaison between governments, Senate Democratic majority spokesman Austin Shafran confirmed Tuesday.

The elder Mr. Espada, a Bronx Democrat, was one of the dissidents who created a June coup in the Senate when he joined a Republican-led coalition, taking the slim majority from his Democratic party in exchange for a lucrative leadership post. Five weeks later he returned to the Democratic conference, restoring its majority to the Democrats, in exchange for another lucrative leadership position.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: democrat; nepotism; senator; son
Corruption so flagrant it'll make you hurl.
1 posted on 08/12/2009 2:38:09 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

Bringing Latin American style politics to New York, via Puerto Rico. This sounds like something that would happen in Mexcio or Argentina.


2 posted on 08/12/2009 2:43:04 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: LibWhacker

That is exactly what he gets for not standing up and placing his hand over his heart for the American Flag. I saw it on YouTube.

he is another one of the people involved, by association, in the reverse-treason.


3 posted on 08/12/2009 2:47:59 PM PDT by bareford101 (What Obama is doing to America is REVERSE-TREASON)
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To: La Lydia

Try the golden handshakes in Sacramento.... the 100K club


4 posted on 08/12/2009 2:48:24 PM PDT by pointsal
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To: LibWhacker

Sonofa....


5 posted on 08/12/2009 2:50:19 PM PDT by AirForceMom (Locked and loaded, and sharpening wooden stakes.)
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To: La Lydia

Get used to it. Like voter fraud, the rats love it and want to keep it. They’re proud of it.


6 posted on 08/12/2009 2:50:28 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: LibWhacker

New York is going down the toilet with its left-wing, PC, corrupt Govt. It is nearly half-way down already.


7 posted on 08/12/2009 2:51:48 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: LibWhacker
What is it with politicians and anatomy? They can't keep their snout out of the trough and they can't keep their _____ in their pants.

Μολὼν λάβε


9 posted on 08/12/2009 3:19:10 PM PDT by wastoute (translation of tag "Come and get them (bastards)" or "come get some")
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To: LibWhacker

Had a guy here in Florida create a job at a University and got the job for himself. He’s going to jail and so are the cronies who were in on it.

I bet that doesn’t happen in NY.


10 posted on 08/12/2009 3:33:45 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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