Maltese: Bruno is 'Screwing' Democrats
Republican State Senator Serf Maltese, whose narrow re-election in 2006 has made him a target for Democrats this year, said he’s not going anywhere.
“I’m very happy here. I’m enthusiastic,“ Maltese told me outside the State Senate chambers on the third floor of the capitol building in Albany. “I’m disappointed, very disappointed that Joe stepped down.”
He said an Albany radio reporter had described him as likely to retire in the wake of Bruno’s retirement. Referring to that reporter, Maltese said, “He just made that up out of whole cloth.”
Maltese did say the timing was advantageous for Republicans. Bruno’s announcement came so late in the campaign season (nominating petitions to get on the ballot are due at the State Board of Elections soon), that Democrats won’t have time to field a strong challenger to the likely Republican candidate, Roy McDonald, the local Assemblyman.
“He’s screwing them,” Maltese told me.
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He's also screwing independents, insurgents, non-insiders, and younger generations, who will have no choice and no chance to crack the self-serving inter-party cabal.
Given that it is an inter-party cabal, insider Democrats working the system are among the least screwed.
Maltese is also screwing Addabbo with this blog:
http://www.joeaddabboagenda.blogspot.com/
That blog ain't Maltese. It is nutso Baldeo.
For the reporter: it is redundant to say "capitol building."
Capitol means building, so it is essentially, building-building. This is a common mistake. Thanks.