Hillary the Carpetbagger failed to deliver much bacon for New York
As reported in the Dec. 2 Gazette, Hillary Clinton has accepted her nomination as secretary of state. With that act she confirms she was a “carpetbagger” all along. Forget her nine years [as a New Yorker]; she’s still the only Westchester resident who can’t find her way to the Taconic Parkway. Let’s harken back to those “Hillary for senator” days of 1999. If I had a sawbuck for each time she claimed she had “no aspirations” to run for president, I could finance enough hair plugs for myself that I’d look like Joseph Stalin. Upstate New York was the battleground in 1999. New York City was assumed to be Clinton’s, and Rick Lazio was Long Island’s hometown boy. She went from Albany to Buffalo, promising upstate New York “hundreds of thousands” of jobs if she was elected. Called to task on that by Barack Obama during her recent presidential campaign, she offered that perhaps she was “a little too exuberant.” Have you been to downtown Buffalo or Rochester lately? I have, and they both look like sets for HBO’s “The Wire” — boardedup houses, weed-encased factories, high crime rates, an economic wasteland. A state Assembly report in 2006 stated that 43 percent of upstate New York’s jobs are minimum wage. How did Hillary help? In May 2007, Hillary Clinton voted against raising the minimum wage. To appeal to older voters upstate, she promised legislation to make prescription drugs more affordable. Not only did she never succeed on that one, in nine years no major piece of legislation was ever accredited to her. A U.S. senator’s bread and butter is bringing appropriations to his or her home state. Think back to the 1980s and 1990s, when we had the team of Daniel P. Moynihan and Alfonse D’Amato. It seemed like every day they were in the news, announcing some major contract or funding for New York. Say what you want about “Sen. Pothole” and Sen. Moynihan, but as an engineer at Northrop Grumman Corp. during that period, there was no better job security than that one-two punch. Compare it today with Hillary’s performance and “Mr. Media,” Chuck Schumer. With Barack Obama’s election, Hillary Clinton was in line to chair the Senate Appropriations Committee. Finally, our payday would come, right? Our Illinois-born, Arkansas-weaned, New York state senator would be controlling the purse strings of the U.S. Senate. Can anyone sing, “Don’t cry for me, Schenectady?” GRAHAM ST. GEORGE Schenectady
The only thing she did while she was a Senator for NYS was get ready to run for the Presidency. The people who voted her into office got what they deserved, nothing.
The only thing she did while she was a Senator for NYS was get ready to run for the Presidency. The people who voted her into office got what they deserved, nothing.
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Love when people say she's been a good Senator. She promised 250,000 Upstate jobs and delivered nothing. Our gain is the Nation's loss.
