Welcome to The Holy Crap what’s up in East Rochester Edition. But before East Rochester…

There was the telecom immunity bill and filibuster where Senator Dodd(with the help of 9 of this friends - none of them named Schumer) - led the effort to prevent retroactive immunity. Collectively the back pain experienced by the Dems in the Senate was the regrowing of a spine. I’m sure some of our members of Congress are wondering if there are pills to cope. No, grow a spine. Thank you Senator Dodd. Everyone else, remember - retroactive immunity is coming back up for discussion in January. We need to make sure the spine is still there. (Chuck you will get a second chance)

Then there was the Public Defender debate. unsurprisingly RochesterTurning and the D&C editorial page agreed. This usually happens when the D&C page misplaces the editorial template and is forced to write based on fact and reason. So the local Dems seem be be attempting to grow a spine as well. They pulled out of the stacked Public Defender selection process, Minarik’s name surfaced, and surfaces again as the curtain is ever so slightly pulled back.

There was more shell games over at the D&C news editing department as well. What would you rather read about. A nice detailed article about how LDCs affect your life or how Congress legally leases cars? The D&C chose prominent front page placement of the cars piece. Not their finest moment.

Randy Kuhl learns that Brazil is not America. What he must have realized down there is that his corporate masters don’t want to change the status quo. What’s the status quo? Big Oil gets tax breaks at the expense of renewable energy opportunities. Sounds unFAIR to me.

Maggie solves the budget problem locally. Really, as long as locally means dependent on Albany.

Seems Mr. Smith - soon to be ex-County Majority leader is much less than candid when he said State law prevents a Sheriff road patrol chargeback. You might remember the Democratic proposal to fairly charge towns for the services they receive and use the funds to replace that which is now heading to the State as part of the intercept plan.

More on the GOP playbook that immigrants suck but that’s OK - Tom Reynolds will help us out as only he can. Sort of like he helped the Congressional page program.

Then there is coverage of two models that work - the VA hospital system and workplace safety.

What else was there in an otherwise slow news week? Oh yeah - East Rochester.

Seems there is quite the dust up in East Rochester. First there was a firing of political appointees, then there was an emergency meeting, private advertising on a government web site with explanation, Our coverage of the meeting, local media coverage, and better pictures, arrests and possible payoffs, and followed by alleged voter fraud. WOW - I’m sure there will be more later.