Hevesi and the Retarded Political System of New York State
I don't know if you've read the new yet but Alan Hevesi is going to resign as Comptroller for the State of New York. He's also going to plead guilty to some watered-down felony so he doesn't have to serve any jail time. Good for him. He'll be home for the holidays
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Maybe it was your secret desire to be the Comptroller....
I'm well aware of the political ramifications for voting for Hevesi so that, when he quit/was fired/kicked out/arrested, his successor would be a Democrat becaue Spitzer's a Democrat too. That does make sense in so far that manipulating the system to your advantage makes sense. I believe this is the main reason Spitzer didn't call for an investigation too loudly before the election. He wanted to be "against" Hevesi but he still wanted him to be re-elected. Then, Spitzer gets rid of him and puts in his hand selected patsy.
All of this is disqusting. From the party-line voters who knowingly voted to give an admitted white-collar criminal enormous financial responsibility to the governor-elect who hoped Hevesi would be elected so that he (Spitzer) could kick him out. No matter how you dice it, New York still elected and gave approval to someone who couldn't live up to the standards his own position and office was supposed to enforce.
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anyway, i'm not defending him. i disagree with the whole principle of it. but i'm tired of hearing republicans say, "i can't believe the people voted for this guy when they knew he was a criminal". they didn't vote for him, they voted for their party. btw, the republicans also, imho, voted to reelect a criminal this election cycle. his name is tom reynolds.
it's like a truth table, if p then q.
if you belive in the democratic party above all else, then a vote for hevesi makes sense.
i don't believe that, voting voting for hevesi doesn't make sense to me.
another example here:
if you're a devout catholic, then you can't support gay marriage (because the church forbids it).
i'm not a devout catholic, so i don't have to oppose gay marriage. but i don't belive the pope should wake up tomorrow and say, "hey, ya know what? let's allow gay marriage". because this is supposedly some 2,000 year old edict from god. so unless god changed his mind overnight and sent the pope an email, then you really, at least logically, can't go changing that shit. if you do, then it's a new set of rules, and you need to start your own religion. call it "homocatholicism".
for the record (and before i get misunderstood), i do support gay marriage, as long as there's gov't sanctioned "marriage" (another if p then q). but to dig even deeper, i don't support gov't sanctioned marriage at all.
wow, i really managed to derail this post huh? that's ok, nobody else is reading it anyway.
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I am sort of ashamed that I voted for Hevesi because of the reason you & Myron don't really believe in - and that it was a vote for the party. I always looks at things as what is the best scenario that can actually happen. I realize that sometimes I leave the best person out but I don't have faith that anyone other than a democrat or republican would get elected so then my vote would be wasted. ugh I always go back & forth on the issue.
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