From Buffalo Pundit...

Dear NY State Senate

.....But we don’t need a Senate in New York. We don’t need a legislature that costs taxpayers tens of millions of dollars per year for absolutely nothing. What, precisely, is the value added by having a Senate? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. But the cost to you, me, and all of us, is enormous.

Recall, if you will, that Dale Volker and his staff alone cost the taxpayers about $1 million per year. Is Dale Volker worth $1 million in taxpayer dollars? In the middle of a recession? And for what, so he can get tough on crime some more? Give me a fricking break. It should not, and doesn’t have to, cost tens of millions of needlessly wasted dollars to have some self-important seatcovers amend the Goddamned Penal Code over and over again.

Malcolm Smith is a disgrace, Stachowski and other upstate Senators should grow a pair, and the 29 Democratic Senators who are letting Smith and the gang of three petit putschists steal away Western New York seniority in a key committeeship, should be disgraced right out of Albany, and all 57 of the rest of them can go home and do something productive, too.

Love,

BP