Enough is enough and this election season, we have to let
legislators know we mean business.
Not exact matches
«You
know, when you look at what the
legislators said they were accomplishing — they were restoring eduation aid, they were doing this, they were doing this — when the governor vetoes those actions, the way he has started to, it
means they accomplished absolutely nothing.»
«So, by all
means, we will be looking at a
legislator's record
no matter what the outcome to see that we can keep our friends around, and — if need be — take the next stop and let democracy happen for those who don't.»
That
means the public still does not
know how much Senate President Malcolm Smith (D - Queens) makes with his title insurance company, Great Abstract Title Co., or how much Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson (D - Brooklyn), Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) and other lawyer -
legislators make from their legal practices.
I
mean, we
know that the parcel of land is private where the pipe sits, and we
know it is only assessed at $ 200, but the people of New York City are not going to appreciate finding out they have to dicker with a village that is not required to exist and a county
legislator who is not required at all if the village is not required, and a village that allows landlords, like the county
legislator who has to live in his district, the village of new paltz, to not NOT be a commercial property tax rate because the TOWN has no Homestead Law.
Even if it
means missing the deadline by a day or three, far better to give
legislators — and the public — a chance to
know what they're voting on.
Legislators need to
know that simply moving the goal doesn't
mean that the kids will make it.
Of course, using standard operating procedure, a «final» draft of the bill was only issued yesterday which
means few
legislators will even
know what they are voting on in the 1,000 page bill.
And I don't
mean that we can't read statutes, judicial opinions, or briefs or represent clients based on all of this information, but the volume of the information being generated by lawyers, judges,
legislators, etc. can
no longer be found, digested, disseminated, or understood without software and algorithms.