Hey! Can Anyone Hear Me?
April 29th, 2008 News 3 Comments
Talk about finding out about something too late.
Today - April 29th - is Albany “Reform Day”. Citizens from across the state will be converging on Albany to promote the following agenda:
Enough… of rules that concentrate Albany’s power in the hands of only three men.
Enough… of sham ethics investigations conducted by partisan boards.
Enough… of campaign finance rules that allow incumbents to scare off high-quality, first-time candidates.
Enough… of district lines drawn by a majority party, with nothing in mind but the preservation of that majority.
Enough… of campaign funds subsidizing the personal lives of elected officials.
I don’t care if you’re a Goldwater conservative or a Kennedy liberal, that’s the kind of Albany reform just about everyone can agree on. (Everyone, that is, who isn’t on Albany’s payroll).
Today is the 29th, and today is the first I’ve heard of this via this post at the Albany Project. People are even being bused to Albany:
Buses will leave from Binghamton, Ithaca, Kingston, Long Island, New York City, Oneonta, Rochester, and Westchester.
That’s correct. A bus is not leaving from the second-largest city in the state.
You know, if I had known about this I would have promoted the bloody hell out of it, and tried to organize a Buffalo contingent to go along. Western New York is in a world of hurt due to the mismanagement and dysfunction of state government, and it’d be important that we join in this effort.
Oh, well. Maybe next time.
