Spitz in town, spanking senators
The Guv stopped by yesterday. From the D&C:
Spitzer calls out senators
Governor urges local residents to tell lawmakers: Back to work
 After a bruising end to the state legislative session, Gov. Eliot Spitzer continued his assault on Senate Republicans on Wednesday and brought his “Where is your senator?” tour to Rochester — chiding senators for leaving for summer break with business unfinished.
What was the unfinished biz?
He mocked senators for leaving and said they broke session a week ago without reaching agreements on such issues as locating power plants, retooling regulations on bidding for public projects, establishing new incentives to clean up industrial sites, and reforming campaign finance laws.
This part is funny:
As he showed a picture of an empty Senate chamber, the Democratic governor said: “We’re playing a little game here of ‘Where’s Waldo?’ Where is your senator? Not there. We looked long and hard. We sent investigators in, we searched the chambers. We couldn’t find any senators. It was peaceful.”
Here’s an action item for y’all:
And he urged the audience to call their local Republican senators, Sens. James Alesi of Perinton and Joseph Robach of Greece, and tell them to get back to work. The jabs at Alesi and Robach come as Spitzer and Democrats are likely to target both of them in next year’s election in an attempt to strip Republicans of their slim majority in the Senate.
Alesi and Robach have been big adherents to the state GOP’s strategy of branding themselves as “The Education Senator” (Robach) or “the Arts Senator” (Alesi), despite voting so conservatively that they undercut much of the progressive strengths of the state. Strengths that local educators and artists strongly believe in.
That’s part of the danger of single-issue voting! I know it’s hard to keep your eyes on the ball with everything going on. So just keep tuning into RT and we’ll help you out. 
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