Where is the Love?
Friends, the New York Post reported yesterday that there’s trouble in Democratic paradise. Democratic/Liberal/Progressive Governor David Paterson and Democratic/Liberal/Progressive Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and their staffs aren’t getting along. It seems as though Shelly is too preoccupied with getting re-elected and keeping NYC happy then doing what is right for New York State. It seems that, since Paterson worked closer in the past with Joe Bruno, he hasn’t had the foresight to establish a relationship with Shelly that puts the state first.
As a member of the same Democratic/Liberal/Progressive party, Paterson should know that Shelly has been mixing and drinking the kool-aid for far too long and doesn’t do anything that goes against his Liberal Progressives pals in the “Big ‘Rotten’ Apple.” Shelly won’t approve Paterson’s plans to put a cap on America’s highest property taxes, reduce state spending, or other various Executive initiatives because they rub the unions the wrong way.
Reports out of Shelly’s NYC district is that he will have two primary challengers and he doesn’t want to antagonize the labor unions before he’ll need them later in the summer for his own campaign war chest. The thing I can’t understand is why the second highest ranking Democrat in state government has a single challenger, let alone two, when the party is trying to take over the state.
I knew that the Democrat/Liberal/Progressives weren’t united at a national level, but apparently they can’t get along in New York either. It leads me to ask, Where is the Love?
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