Posted on 06/23/2009 12:08:05 PM PDT by Chet 99
ALBANY — Senate Democrats entered the Senate chamber through a back hallway on Tuesday afternoon and locked themselves in, pulling off a sneak attack of sorts in the ongoing battle for control of the State Senate.
The move took the Capitol by surprise, and left Republicans scrambling to plan their next procedural move. Republicans had planned to enter the chamber at 2 p.m. — an hour before the special session called by Gov. David A. Paterson was scheduled to begin. Who would be in the chamber first became a key question on Tuesday as Republicans and Democrats failed again to reach a compromise over the disputed Senate leadership.
“At this point, they refuse to enter into an operating agreement,” Senator Eric T. Schneiderman, a Democrat who represents the Upper West Side, told reporters just before he and his fellow Democrats sneaked into the chamber. “We hope that they will come back to the table, and that we’ll be able to agree on rules. Our view is that we cannot ignore the people’s business that the governor is calling us back to do.”
Republicans seemed just as caught off guard as the rest of the Capitol. And as news of the Democrats’ move spread, some Republican staff members rushed to the Senate chamber and peered in through the windows to watch the Democrats congregating inside.
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And turn off the air conditioning.
The republicans have legal control... break the door down and have them arrested.
This is the most fun in years in NYState politics
Just break the door.
NY Republicans for the most part are a bunch or Cunning Runts and excuse my dyslexia.......
ya cant even grow a banana in NY.....we ain't even a banana republic.....
Time to change the locks.
Nail the doors shut and turn off the A/C and lights.....
Supposed adults playing kids games...there is FAR too much power at stake and politicians will do ANYTHING to take advantage of it. The people will have to stand up one day and quite literally THROW THE BUMS OUT, all over the nation. It’s that or lose our nation and our rights—or what remains of them.
"SAVE THE O B I"
We have 5 year olds operating here. Chain the doors shut shut off electric and water. Let them stay there a while.
the 2 dems who are voting with the republicans need to switch parties completely and get it over with....
Radical fanatics “holed up” in a “compound’? Where have I heard of that before? Hmmmm.
Never mind. Just send in an FBI “Hostage Rescue Team”. They “specialize” in this sort of thing.
>Fine, throw a padlock on the outside of the door and call it a day.
That would be awesome.
this is NY...you have conservatives upstate for the most part but the population areas are all Democrat with many hard line Socialist areas....it wont happen here....
Ah, yes. This is the same group which spent over $500,000 on a rest room do over. An independent study revealed that the NYS Legislature is the most dysfunctional in the 57 states. sd
The OBI —> I don’t remember, but I had a good time...
Democrat Leader, with Whips.
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