Wow, Albany actually produced
From The Albany Project:
(From Amy Traub at DMIBlog)
At the beginning of the month, I wrote an op-ed for the Albany Times-Union challenging the conventional wisdom that the year’s legislative session was largely a failure. I pointed out that on issues important to most current and aspiring middle-class New Yorkers, Albany has made significant progress: hundreds of thousands of low-income kids are becoming eligible for state health insurance, underserved schools are finally getting resources they’ve needed for decades, and new groups of employees are eligible to organize themselves for a fair deal at work. I argued that by minimizing these substantial policy victories for ordinary New Yorkers, we risk feeding into dangerous myths that nothing of substance is ever accomplished in the state capitol.
It’s important to give credit where it’s due. And if you like the sound of this legislation, imagine what great stuff a state leg full of Clean Money Clean Election candidates would do.
But the question remains: how did all this good stuff get past Joe Bruno? Did he think he was voting on something else?
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