Posted on 01/24/2015 2:56:52 PM PST by 9thLife
Get angry, New York.
...“We simply want people in high office to stop violating the law. People elected to make laws should not be breaking them.”
...“Money often seems to be at the core of the problem.”
...“We had a case against City Councilman Dan Halloran, which you may remember,” Bharara said, referring to the Queens Republican convicted last July in a $200,000 bribery scheme.
“After allegedly receiving a $7,500 cash bribe, he says to the cooperating witness on tape, ‘Money is what greases the wheels. Good, bad or indifferent. That’s politics. That’s politics. It’s all about how much, and that’s all our politicians in New York. They’re all like that. All like that.”
...“Here’s Eric Stevenson in his own words, as recorded in the case: ‘Bottom line, if half the people up here in Albany was ever caught for what they do, they would probably be in jail.”
How should these examples make New Yorkers feel, the prosecutor asked before answering his own question.
“They should maybe be angry. When so many of their leaders can be bought for a few thousand dollars, they should think about getting angry.
“And they should ask some pointed questions. Given the allegations in case after case after case, how many other pending bills were born of bribery?
“And worse, how many past bills were born of bribery or improper influence? How about items in the budget? How much of the work of the city and the state government is tarnished by tawdry graft?
“Because whenever corruption is on the rise, that means democracy is on the decline,” he said.
“I mean, it seems sometimes that Albany really is a cauldron of corruption.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
We need someone like Xi Jinping.
There should be zero tolerance for corruption.
Both the flies and the tigers should go straight to prison.
If you’re in public office for personal enrichment or to benefit your friends, you don’t deserve to belong there.
The Chinese are doing it. Its about time we went after political graft, too.
...“Money often seems to be at the core of the problem.”
No, it isn’t. The problem goes far deeper than that.
Its about ethics.
Politicians should demand higher standards from themselves and abide by them.
Which has nothing to do with party but rather with right and wrong.
“Its about ethics.”
A large part, to be sure.
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How strange. The word ‘Democrat’ didn’t appear in the article at all
It does. What’s posted is heavily “excerpted”.
Actually, you’re right, it does not appear, although Sheldon Silver is a democrat as is the bozo we now call “Mayor”.
But the author sure does mention a Republican.
Voters should demand higher standards of their politicians... As you just did.
Still... And I do wonder why, as someone else asked, he's not going after Sharpton.
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