I live in New York. To say that the politics of my state are dysfunctional would be like saying that Adolph Hitler could sometimes be not such a nice fellow. It’s all true, of course. It just doesn’t do just justice to the scope of the crimes committed.
We have a governor (as of this writing, anyhow) who just got blasted by the New York State Commission on Public Integrity for lying to them under oath in their investigation of him. But that’s okay. Before that, he accepted the favor of free tickets to the World Series, which is what he lied about. But that’s okay. Before that he was putting pressure on a woman who was the victim of domestic violence to go away and shut up. But that’s okay. The person who was beating and choking her was one of his top staffers. But that’s okay, before that he and his wife were involved in all sorts of tawdry but unspecified sex and drug related scandalous behavior. But that’s okay. He’s the governor who came in after the last governor had to resign because he was laundering money in order to visit high-priced hookers. But that’s okay. Everybody in Albany is out of control, including one state senator who cut his girlfriend’s face open with broken glass, and a former leader of the Senate on trial for wholesale corruption. But that’s okay, because none of them actually do anything, anyhow. (more)
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