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What They're Saying
June 6th, 2007

The Daily News cheers the prison sentences for former Brooklyn Democratic Party boss Clarence Norman and bribe taking judge Gerald Garson. Good riddance to both of them - maybe they can share a ride to Dannemora or sit next to each other in the license plate workshop, the paper crows. But on a more sober note, the editorial questions how much things have changed in Kings County: There is a new leader, Vito Lopez, and new judges, like his girlfriend’s brother, Jack Battaglia, whom Lopez put on Brooklyn Supreme Court last year. Thus it is ever until New York changes the way judges are picked.”

With Albany debating a new law on how to site power plants, Gavin Donohue, president and CEO of the Independent Power Producers of New York, urges legislators and the governor not to turn the measure into environmental legislation. Raising the specter of future electricity shortages, that he argues cannot be addressed by increased efficiency and conservation, Donohue writes in the Post, This measure must give priority to securing future energy supplies.

The Post has compared Eliot Spitzer to a French politician. But now it ups the ante, associating our governor with former Mayor John Lindsay. In an editorial entitled John Vliet Spitzer (Vliet was Lindsays middle name), the Post likens Spitzers plans to help more low-income New Yorkers get food stamps to Lindsays efforts to ensure that people eligible for welfare received it. Not only does Spitzers plan encourage dependency, its also in the Posts eyes, totally unnecessary: “Between the existing food stamp program, local food banks, faith-based pantries and the public-schools’ three-meals-and-a-snack feeding programs, nobody of sound mind goes hungry in New York.

By Gail Robinson on June 6, 2007, 9:42 am
In category: Albany, Crime, Environment, Gotham City, Law, Social Services
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