NYS GOP, RIP

My family moved from Brooklyn to the Long Island suburbs when I was 2. They moved back to Brooklyn 7 or 8 years later. I felt better in NYC than in the burbs but I went to college on Long Island too-- at SUNY, Stony Brook. Long Island was always a little alien to me. This afternoon I heard someone on the radio talking about the latest moronic statement from Peter King-- something about Democrats not willing to get out of bed at 3 AM if the country was attacked-- King is Long Island's last, and stupidest, Republican congressman. At the rate things have been going, there won't be many Republican elected officials in any offices soon-- a very different story from when I was a kid and it was some kind of GOP-hell there.

And yesterday another nail was pounded into the Republican political coffin. Democratic county legislator Craig Jonhson captured a traditionally Republican state senate seat on Long Island with 53% of the vote in a special election. "He will be the first Democratic state senator in a century to represent that part of Long Island, party leaders say. The victory narrows the Republican edge in the State Senate to 33 seats to 29, and the loss of two more seats would end their control of the chamber. Democrats are hoping to use Tuesday’s victory to coax some Republican senators to their side of the aisle in a state where Democrats have been making huge inroads in suburban and rural areas. In a demonstration of the importance of the race, the contest drew last-minute appearances from two potential presidential nominees, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rudolph W. Giuliani."

Democrats have been cleaning up in New York lately. Eliot Spitzer won the governorship in an unprecedented landslide in November and both U.S. Senators are Democrats, as are 23 of the 29 congressmen. The State Assembly is also comfortably held by Democrats. After yesterday two more state senate seats and the Democrats have it all-- in time for reapportionment and in time for Governor Spitzer's breakthrough agenda which could serve as a beacon for the whole country still in the midst of the Bush Regime's dark rule.

Republican State Senate Leader Joseph Bruno, a model of corruption, is being investigated by the FBI and seems destined for prison. There are also two Republican senators talking about switching parties, John J. Bonacic of Orange County, and Joseph E. Robach of the Rochester area, a former Democrat.