I had hoped by now to be serving full-time the many citizens of New York State who elected me to be their senator. However, because of certain actions undertaken by people whose name I appear to share, it is necessary to interrupt my important work on behalf of children, women, the elderly, minorities, the constituents of the Rev. Al Sharpton, the homeless, and certain communities in Rockland County, N.Y., to point out that none of these shocking, saddening, heartbreaking, deplorable, unspeakable, wretched, repugnant and personally disappointing things had anything remotely to do with me. First I want to make clear ...