Monday, August 30, 2010

Pedro Espada and what's wrong with politics

New York State has an unusual situation. Some of its citizens voted for a Democrat who thinks like a bad Republican and wanted to be a Republican.  For stupid and selfish political reasons the Democrats thought they needed this scoundrel as a voting Democrat.

They bribed him by offering him a job he was not capable of doing. Now they realize their mistake and are doing all they can to get rid of him. He is being investigated for alleged wrongdoing.

Unfortunately these same Democrats - and Republicans - usually ignore their colleagues' malfeasance. The result: Poor representation.

Thanks to the laws they've passed, these  poor representatives from both parties have given us monopolistic, unregulated cable television, a greedy Wall Street, a corrupt credit  card industry, uncaring banks who stole from their customers, and, with the help of the real estate industry, stole homes from people who believed in the American Dream.

And some of these representatives are the people who voted themselves a raise while denying increases to people dependent on social security.

2 comments:

Espada Report said...

Tell us more about his opponent(s) in this race.

hariet said...

Espada is so corrupt. A reading of his checkered past can be obtained from Wikipedia. It could be the basis of a film on one of the most crooked politicians of all time. We need more aware voters who will cast such culprits aside. Unfortunately, Espada is also very clever and has had an impressive education.