From A Walk in the Park:With just ten days left in the State Senate and Assembly session, "no name" proponents quietly introduced legislation this afternoon to alienate parkland for the United State Tennis Association expansion NYC Park Advocates has learned.
And we mean quietly. The Bill, S 5663, was introduced without a sponsor, a distinction reserved for legislators unwilling to take responsibly for the legislation.
"That seems like a way around accountability," commented one chief of staff for an Assembly member.
So everyone has come out in favor of the USTA plan, but no one wants to put their name on the bill?
Simply amazing. But not all that surprising.
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Losers, the whole bunch of them.
COWARDS AND CROOKS!
The need for TERM LIMITS all the way--up and down the line of government--is well demonstrated here!
I'm notifying any of my reps who voted for this, that they're not getting my vote the next time they're running for office.
Crappy, hope you'll publish the roll call for this vote.
Perhaps Sen. Tony Avella (D-Outspoken) can shine a light on the bill's true sponsor. I presume Stavisky or Peralta.
this is easy-
- request publicly that all your local electeds vote against the bill - and if they do not - that you will mount an effort to see them out of office (possible, but you will not of course make that effort)
- step two is to ask your electeds to propose legislation to overturn this bill once its voted upon - and if they do so and lose - you will mount an effort to get your toothless representatives out of office (possible, but you will not of course make the effort)
the bottom line is that if an official is a shoo-in for office your have absolutely no recourse.
NYC is such a bullshit place where the people go apeshit over wearing the 'right' kind of shoes or drinking the 'perfect' latte while being treated like ignorant yo-yos by their political class - whom most New Yorkers of any sense would not give a second glance if encountered in a social situation.
Funny about life, eh?
Losers, the whole bunch of them.
NO, THE LOSERS ARE US FOR LETTING THESE SEMI-LITERATE LOW-LIFES D*CK US AROUND.
Anon #6: Anonymous said...
"NYC is such a bullshit place where the people go apeshit over wearing the 'right' kind of shoes or drinking the 'perfect' latte while being treated like ignorant yo-yos by their political class"
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Talk about being right on the money. NYC is greatly over rated, unless of course you live in certain parts of Manhattan, but most places in Queens, forget it, we might as not even be part of NYC, we are like the bastard step-child.
America would be a very different - and probably better - place, if the right to vote had to be renewed each year by a basic test of civic literacy and current affairs.
"Perhaps Sen. Tony Avella (D-Outspoken) can shine a light on the bill's true sponsor."
In all sincerity Tony should release this info. He has nothing to lose and everything to gain. It would enhance his chances of becoming the Queens Beep and perhaps put a nail in the Katz and Vallone campaigns.
A big roll of the political dice for Avella if he has the nuts.
There should be a law that any bill without a sponsor gets thrown in the trash, and whoever tried to slip it in gets pointed out and looses his pay for that week.
What a great thing for Queens Civic Congress to go after.
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