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Ron Cannestrari retires, forty years too late for the tax payers of New York State.  I heard Fred Dicker on AM1300 talking about Ron.  One of the first things Fred mentioned was the constituents services many 'law makers' offer.  This fits with Ron's concept of government, a logical extension of the social progressive mentality.


Being a social progressive does not sound like anything bad, it sounds nice.  When the bills come in (taxes) it is not so nice & when you get told which personal habits (smoking, sugar - fat intake) you are to govern in accordance with the social progressive agenda then it is not so nice.


Think about it;  Since the likes of Ron Cannestrari (D), Jack McEneny (D), Roy McDonald ®, Joe Bruno ® graced the halls of the NYS government, what do we have to show for it?  High taxes, crumbling infrastructure, Global Foundries (hiring people from outside the US, not local 'tech' grads), restrictive laws that are for our own good, regulations that drive industry (jobs) from NYS & unfunded mandates that are bankrupting county governments.


A states prosperity is a small price to pay for constituents service.  By doing due diligence in the performance of constituents service the need to govern responsibly is removed.  Enjoy your retirement Ron, Jack, Joe & Roy - soon.  We 'the people' will pay for it for generations.

can't say as I disagree

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Ron Cannestrari retires, forty years too late for the tax payers of New York State.  I heard Fred Dicker on AM1300 talking about Ron.  One of the first things Fred mentioned was the constituents services many 'law makers' offer.  This fits with Ron's concept of government, a logical extension of the social progressive mentality.


Being a social progressive does not sound like anything bad, it sounds nice.  When the bills come in (taxes) it is not so nice & when you get told which personal habits (smoking, sugar - fat intake) you are to govern in accordance with the social progressive agenda then it is not so nice.


Think about it;  Since the likes of Ron Cannestrari (D), Jack McEneny (D), Roy McDonald ®, Joe Bruno ® graced the halls of the NYS government, what do we have to show for it?  High taxes, crumbling infrastructure, Global Foundries (hiring people from outside the US, not local 'tech' grads), restrictive laws that are for our own good, regulations that drive industry (jobs) from NYS & unfunded mandates that are bankrupting county governments.


A states prosperity is a small price to pay for constituents service.  By doing due diligence in the performance of constituents service the need to govern responsibly is removed.  Enjoy your retirement Ron, Jack, Joe & Roy - soon.  We 'the people' will pay for it for generations.

I didn't even know who he was and I pay attention. How important could he have been really?????

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I didn't even know who he was and I pay attention. How important could he have been really?????

Ron Canestrari has been the Assembly Majority Leader .. second only to the Speaker of the Assembly for a number of years --- so he has been very important.  

As for the constituent service issue --- it is one PART of a legislators job.  I don't fault any legislator for trying to help solve problems for individual constituents.

Obviously, the most important part is legislating ... and quite frankly the legislators in New York State have not had the balls to actually legislate for as long as I can remember.   Every New York State Legislator (of both parties) that has served in the past -- 40 or 50 years at least -- has been complicit in the bullshit that we call  "3 men in a room".    They "play the game" by sitting on their hands and waiting for the party leaders to tell them how to vote when legislation is allowed to come to the floor.  

I know this is not the way many other state legislatures operate ... and I would hope that someday -- sooner rather than later -- that we could find enough persons with the balls to go to Albany, toss the "3 men in a room" scheme and actually fight like hell to represent the people by ACTIVELY PARTICIPATING in a REAL LEGISLATIVE PROCESS.

you're right...NYS legislators dont have the balls to legislate but they seem to legislate soooooo much that they cause their constituents to have blue balls.....

hence my post script and the paradox called the wet paper bag that we now live in.....

DADDY NYS
PAPA NYS

whatever you want to call it the personhood is removed causing blue balls of the constituents and the paradox of the wet paper bag we live in.....hence my post script

I thought this was about DVR/SB/Hamburger.

It is, because apparently DVOR and company have great faith in the leadership of the Daddy State because left to their power they would starve to death