At least NY isn’t CA or IL
by Brian Mann on February 18th, 2009
Okay, so New York’s political landscape is a shambles, with Governor Paterson scrambling, New York’s newly-minted Senator Gillibrand still trying to find her balance, and the budget imploding.
But compare us with California, where a $40+billion dollar deficit has rammed against a TRULY dysfunctional legislature, and we look pretty good.
Give me Albany over Sacramento any day. (Though per capita our budget shortfall isn’t all that much better.)
And then compare our political snafus with the continuing soap opera of ousted Governor Rod Blagojevich and his tainted protege, Sen. Roland Burris.
If we’re a soap opera, Illinois is actual opera. And for Sen. Burris, the fat lady may just be warming up her pipes.
