New York Senate Democrats purge whites from staff
Fredric Dicker reports for the New York Post on politics inside the state capital at Albany. Democratic Senators have split into factions, spy on each other, and now are accompanied by bodyguards. Recently Democrats in the state Senate tried to bar reporters from the chamber.
“A high-level Democratic staffer confided, “We’ve been told to only hire minorities.”
Some of the tension is the result of the firing of 200 white state workers, replaced by minorities widely viewed as incompetent. Support staff interviewed for this article complained that they are “surrounded by idiots.” The fact that Governor Patterson is perceived as weak and incompetent doesn’t help matters.
“Under the Democratic control that began in January, the Senate’s traditional civility gave way to a crude, rude, nasty and thuggish style.”
Actually no one should be surprised that the New York Democrats are uncivil, or that they are splitting and fighting as their policies bring their state closer to bankruptcy. The same thing is happening in California, and no doubt in other liberal states. The lapdog national media doesn’t report on what is really going on, so we’re happy we ran across this Post article.
More background on the maneuvering here, here, and here. New York state tax revenues have fallen by 35%. Ouch. We don’t think this story is going to have a happy ending.
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