Hey D&C — Tell Joe Morelle to Leave Politics Out of Government
Did you see the editorial calling on Maggie Brooks to leave politics out of government in the D&C this morning? These guys are amazing. They criticize the FAIR plan and the way it was approved, yet the make no mention of why the County really had no choice but to do what they did.
Assemblyman Joe Morelle — who also happens to be the Chairman of the County Democratic Party — (no injection of politics in government there) was successful at blocking County attempts to increase the sales tax in the state legislature. Assemblyman Morelle accomplished this by having his mentor, Sheldon Silver, block the bill without even allowing the matter to come before the Assembly for a vote.
Why would Joe Morelle do this when an increase would have “protected the children”– the very people the Democrats claim to be so concerned about? The answer is so simple that even the D&C editorial board should be able to understand.
Raising the sales tax would be too painless. Plain and simple the goal was to limit Maggie Brooks’ options to either raising property taxes — or enacted a plan that would cause some group to be outraged.
To top it off Morelle even voted against extending the current sales tax rate. If this legislation was not passed (thankfully it was), the City of Rochester would be bankrupt. But there would have been one big benfit for Morelle — Maggie Brooks and the Republicans in the legislature surely would have to raise property taxes then.
What makes this even more galling is that he voted yes on every other county’s request seeking a sales tax extension or increase last year.
Funny, but I don’t remeber seeing editorials on either one of these items. They were probably written when I was on vaction.
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