an amendment

I get a lot of fundraising emails about overturning the Citizen's United decision that gutted election laws and gave free speech rights to corporations. I followed the most recent fundraising email here. Here is another. One more here. Last one to prove there are a lot.

comptroller article in the Register Star

http://www.registerstar.com/news/article_e20a0f74-2bf6-11e4-adce-001a4bcf887a.html#user-comment-area

The thing is, it's way more than $40,000, as that is only for 18 months including the time after the story ran on the front page of the Albany Times Union.

whitewash

I no sooner wrote this abstract piece about the police when Sam Pratt told me to read this. I'm upset. It's a whitewash.

I'm going to get a copy of the report and every document I can pertaining to the production of this report. If you steal a million dollars it's not "oh well, we'll try to do better next time."

DiNapoli in there for the cronies. Democrats and Republicans united in corruption.

the police

The protests and unrest and police misconduct in Ferguson, Missouri makes me think about policing generally. Here are my thoughts:

schneiderman: columbia county is worse

http://ag.ny.gov/press-release/ag-schneiderman-announces-arrest-and-four-count-indictment-broome-county-attorney-john

This is peanuts compared to Sleepergate. Why not Columbia County?