Did everybody connected to the Senate Democratic Majority "leadership" take the short bus to school as kids?
Today's Exhibit is the same as Yesterday's Exhibit: The Senate hires more people and pays them a boatload for doing things they can't, won't, or shouldn't be doing.
Like Pedro Espada who hires at $150K, the right-hand of the guy who says he wants to subvert, harass, and destroy politically the most powerful Democrat in the state--who also happens to work down the hall in a Democratically-controlled fortress. I speak, of course, of Shelly Silver and the Assembly Democrats.
But think about this one for a minute. What kind of idiots foment and conceptualize--what's for all intents and purposes--a civil war like this? It's like McHale's Navy attacking Nimitz' Seventh Fleet. At high noon. After sending him an announcement. While taking on water from a Japanese torpedo.
And what kind of leadership acquiesces to this lunacy? Or worse still, pays a roster of people north of $150K for concepts like this? Kinda like July's Brainiac of the Month. That'd be when Senate Counsel wanted to sue Silver over Frank Padavan's walkabout. They must think Silver's their voodoo doll they get to stick with pins whenever they shit the bed.
Keep in mind that Tom Golisano's threat--via the Senate Majority leadership--to take out Silver is not rumor nor conjecture nor conspiracy theory--it's public fact. It's fact because Golisano tells it to the world. And then Golisano (again, publicly) institutionalizes the threat by ordering Espada to hire his consigliere Steve Pigeon to draft a war plan. Military Science for Complete Idiots says Golisano, Pigeon and Espada are planning to go to war. And that's because they are planning to go to war. Look, if somebody tells you he wants to kill you, it's best to assume he does. Especially if the guy really believes he gets to kill people because he's a billionaire. And because he's God. Because only Gods can make their own infomercials in marginal media markets with dorky strawmen.
And Silver's supposed to work cooperatively with this rats nest?
Could somebody please drop a comment on how all this is supposed to work, because I just can't figure it out. Really, I mean it.
It's probably a very good thing for Golisano, Pigeon, Espada and Carl Kruger that they're such rapacious and incompetent buffoons. Actually it's the only thing they've got going for them, else Silver would have to give them more than a second's notice and then do upon them what they would him.
But what makes this situation ridiculously ironic is that the Senate Democrats are going after Assembly Democrats with staff who were bounced out of the Assembly. But who're now getting paid double by the Senate for their manifest talent--like forging things, tormenting subordinates, playing aggrieved, playing dead and playing suicidal strategist.
And just like everything else the Senate Democratic conference has mutilated this year, this A-Team of theirs will blow up in their faces. There's simply no way it can't. It's like throwing Gumby and Pokey into the cockpit of an F-16.
The Senate Democrats best and only hope is that the Working Families Party grabs control of their entire reelection apparatus. Because left to their own devices, these people are pretty much finished. And with Golisano hovering over them like the Talisman of Certain Failure, it's a near foregone conclusion.
Think about what they're now mixed up with. They can't even outsmart Joe Mondello. And yeah, if Pigeon and Golisano are involved with this, that means Espada's involved with this. And that means the Senate Democratic leadership and its top staff members are involved with botching up the selection of the State GOP chair.
So we're guessing that Shelly Mayer (Senate Counsel and A-Team Legislative Impresario) is hard at work figuring out how to sue Shelly Silver about all this.
