If Democrats are going to hold the Senate, they best hope they up their majority by a couple seats...The effort to oust Senator Pedro Espada from the party is being met by charges of racial discrimination by fellow Senator Ruben Diaz Sr, also of the Bronx... Party leaders cannot continue to have to depend on keeping folks like Diaz and Espada in the fold.
The party is playing hardball with Espada because he is such a profound liability to the party's prospects this fall. Even an upstate race like ours could have been affected if the GOP were able to effectively use people like Espada as a talking point.
His corruption problems hurt now but nobody cared as long if he hadn't made waves by staging the coup last summer.
Senator Diaz' assertion that this is anti-Hispanic is typical of the politics of Albany where there are caucuses based on race as well as party.
Espada is getting the heave-ho because he put his own good fortune ahead of the party''s in a way that brought all 32 Dems a lot of negative vibes. He has no friends left...except for Senator Diaz.
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2 comments:
No, they're after you because you defied the party loyalty rule. Had you kept your nose clean and stayed in lock step with your leadership, you would have been allowed to continue to steal money for your "clinic" and live happily ever after as a representative of the peeeople of the State of NY.
When all else fails throw the race card. This is so stereotypical, they are picking on me because I am Hispanic, not that I am corrupt, illegal, or stealing 14 million dollars. I wonder if I threw the "I am white and over 60 card" what would that do for me? The handful of criminals in the Democratic party gives the party a bad name.
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