Three days a week ain’t working
The D&C has a scathing editorial up about the State Legislature’s decision to stick with its current workload (if you can call it that):
Gov. Eliot Spitzer, in his State of the State address last week, filled the Assembly chamber with a lot of vision and an impressive agenda for change. But for legislators in attendance, Spitzer fundamentally was calling them to work. Hard. One doesn’t get through, or even start on, a to-do list as long as Spitzer’s without putting in long hours.
What did lawmakers in the Assembly and Senate do in response? Pick up their shovels and axes, you say? Start drilling down on the tough issues of upstate economic revival, ethics and lobbying reform, authority reconstruction, property taxes, court reorganization, school funding formulas and others? No. They left town after choosing their caucus leaders. They’re not scheduled to return to open session until this afternoon.
They’re also going to continue to take Thursday and Friday off each week. Someone needs to send Nancy Pelosi out there to straighten these jokers out.
Over at the D&C blog, opinion writer Tom Tobin is upset that no one has written in to agree with the editorial yet, so if you think of it, drop him a line and tell him you agree.
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