Corruptuion in New York State

How New York Became One Of The Most Corrupt States

It's happening again. Rarely a month seems to pass when there isn't some state legislator in New York facing indictment. The latest, former Democratic state Sen. Shirley Huntley, was sentenced Thursday to spend a year and a day in prison for stealing $88,000 from a charity she controlled. A day earlier, a federal judge had unsealed records showing that Huntley last year secretly recorded conversations with seven other elected officials she suspected of corruption.

According to a New York public interest group, causes are:

1. Single-Party Dominance
2. The Hunt For Campaign Funds
3. Insular Decision-Making
4. Media Aren't Watching

My claim is that all of these are derived from the relative difference in proportional voting due to unfair elections in the Senate. Both California and New York refuse to discuss the issue of democracy for the single reason that these politicians can be corrupt by playing the arbitrage game between state, local and national politics. It is the specific intent for both states to seek corruption.

Consider one theme, affirmative action in California. For years it has had one purpose, to suppress the Anglo minority over the plurality of Latinos, a deliberate attempt to preserve apartheid. If you ask Nancy Pelosi about this, she will cheerfully answer that it is quite normal for the Democratic part to engage in racial pandering, it is a good thing, she claims, good because Democrats do it, and possible because Democrats could care less about democracy. This is the standard party platform among the single party here in California, corruption and racism good, democracy bad. Latinos, evidently, believe the story, but the Senate, composed of small states happen to disagree with California racists, hence they make sure that citizens in California who agree with the goodness of corruption pay a hefty tax premium back to DC to cover the corruption charges.