On Monday morning, Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb is supposed to meet with one of his Republican flock to discuss not the lovely Indian Summer weather, but more contentious topics like 'Is DeDe Scozzafava the Benedict Arnold of the Republican caucus and should she be punished for abandoning the Republican Congressional nonmination in an effort to elect Democrat Bill Owens?'.
In Albany, you can be forgiven for a lot of things, including slashing the face of your girlfriend with a wine glass, or committing wholesale adultry as long as you are north of Bear Mountain, or using your leadership post to enrich the health care consortium owned by your family.. All that and more is OK.
But disloyalty to the party...thats a problem...Talk to Mike Bragman about that.
Well, we know what Shelly Silver or June O'Neill would do to a Democrat who did what Scozzafava did just eight days ago. But what will the Republicans in the Assembly do ?....Given their numbers, they don't do a heck of a lot, so they probably have had lots of time to ponder this dilemma.
What does Mr. Kolb say to kick off the chat ?
'Gee DeDe, What's new ?'
After all, Scozzafava is already set up as a victim of a party that mugged her for wanting just a little marriage equality and now she gets punished for putting a stop to the man who wanted to represent the district as a Republican, even though he couldn't express that on television.
Given that nothing goes on in the Assembly Minority, there is an argument to be made for letting it slide...let her finish the term...and move on to a post in the Cuomo Administration (oops that part is still embargoed).
Maybe the GOP should just move on and not be seen as vindictive, even if what was done was a betrayal of those who supported her and gave her the nomination.
That's what I'd do....nothing. Let it slide... After all , to err is human, to forgive divine.
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i think you make a reasonable case for the republican leadership to forgive dede, but i personally think she should still be punished (and i say that as someone who supports her endorsement of owens). i think the big problem with forgiving her is that it sets a very bad precedent for the rest of the caucus. effective political parties have to be able to enforce party discipline. to my mind, that outweighs the reasons to forgive her.
THEY JUMP PARTY LINES ALL THE TIME.THE TROUBLE HERE WAS, THE REP.THOUGHT DEDE WOULD BE A SHOE IN.UNTILL THEY SEEN A LATE POLL SHOWING OTHERWISE.THEN POOR DEDE GOT PENNYS,FROM THE GOP, WHILE HOFFMAN GOT DOLLARS! AND WE ALL KNOW THAT YOU CAN NOT RUN A CAMPAIN ON PENNYS.MR KOLP AND THE GOP GOT CAUGHT WITH THEIR PANTS DOWN!
Or the conversation could be "Dede about my Hackett's stock", she could walk in with some Alteri's bread, some gift certificates to Hackett's, possibly an endorsement of the union for a future office, but I suspect she's done, like burnt toast. Hope she takes Tom S. this will help.
The Assembly minority's ranks are so thin and so powerless that they really have nothing to lose by expelling her from the caucus.
LOL Just like her brother she pull a quick reverse on ya and she'll be a democrat, of course the stock reversing bit her brother pulled cost plenty this time for the bag holders...Yet again another hit to the piggy bank funded by the good people of the N country, I see the stock as worthless, I hope others did thier DD, his friends didnt, but hey you screw over your friends first right? Hes laughing all the way to the bank with your money and shes with him carting away 16K plus that she certainly didnt earn...Yeah sure, dont do a thing, that seems to be the whole Albany attitude anyway.
I suspect DeDE will announce that she is switching parties and the DEm will appoint her to a chair with a tremendous LULU for her loyality and her hubby will probably get a job a a union organizer for SEIU or perhaps labor relation , the real question is when will they feel secure enough to make the payoff know, of course with the demonstrated arrogance of the Democrats and even the republicans why whoud they care--we know they are all bought and sold like prostitutes and never represent the people that elect them
Hey 7:38 you're right, when her hubbie called the "Hot line" the other day to invite it's host to the "Chrystal" because Owens was there, he'll soon have a labor gig with some of the many "toothless labor unions, Just my .00000000002,this is the value of Hackett's stock.
She resigned from her leadership post tonight. A friend of mine said the Dems in St. Lawrence and Lewis want to run McGrath to fill her seat in 2010 and think he would win, but he has not committed yet.
Oh good another hand picked party person, loyal to the party not the taxpayers.
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