If this doesn't just piss you off then you may as well be dead. The modern day mafia is running this state and what do we do? Every two years we re-elect this same bunch of bozos to do it to ua again and again and again.... We love it, we apparently just love the abuse, high taxes and getting beat about the head by every public service union in the state. It's time to wake up people. time to wake up.



Here is the Brennan Centers report... Read it for yourself, then go out in two years and pull the lever for the same bozo that has shafted you year after year... You like it, remember.....

Defiantly bad: New York's Legislature stubbornly maintains position as the nation's worst

The facts are in: New York still has the most dysfunctional, anti-democratic, boss-ruled, slovenly legislature in the country.

Almost five years after nailing the Assembly and Senate as partners in America's worst legislative branch, the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School has compiled a fresh set of scandalously damning data:

* The state's 212 lawmakers introduced 18,239 bills and resolutions in 2008 - triple the number introduced in the next-highest legislature and half again more than introduced in Congress.

* More than 90% of the bills made it only as far as press releases and then they vanished without serious consideration.

* Legislative committees - which should move the bills to up-or-down votes - existed in name only. They held almost no hearings and produced exactly zero detailed reports on major legislation.

* Most Senate committees meet fewer than two times per year. The ethics, cities, racing and wagering, and tourism panels never convened at all in 2006 - even as their chairs pulled down thousands of dollars in extra pay for their supposed efforts.

* When Senate committees do meet, members skip out and cast no-show ballots.