Why won’t the Times name ALL the thieves it has – Latest News
It sure seems like The New York Times has some bizarre agenda when it studies on obvious petty theft involving at the very least 130 state legislators — however solely names one . . . who’s already been voted out of workplace.
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The paper studies in great element on how state Sen. Jessica Ramos seems to have double-billed for journey bills — getting reimbursed for resort payments and prepare tickets by each her marketing campaign accounts and the state, which covers certified work-related bills for electeds.
Bad Jessica! If she did it, let her face the full penalties of the law.
But what about all the different pols indulging in a scheme that appears not simply widespread in Albany however virtually common?
Sure seems like a bid to make Ramos — a longtime Working Families Party stalwart, now loathed by her fellow Democrats after endorsing Andrew Cuomo for mayor and defeated in her final main as a end result — the sacrificial goat for epidemic corruption.
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Albany’s “per diem” system — paying legislators a fixed sum to cowl their bills for time in the capital on official business — was abused for many years, however reforms and a couple of hefty pay raises supposedly closed the largest loopholes.
Hah! The Times factors to (however, again, gained’t name) dozens of legislators nonetheless embezzling $300 right here and $50 there.
It’s pennyante stuff, however then again the crew up in Albany is fairly low-rent.
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Just await what video games we’ll (ultimately) study they play with the taxpayer-funded marketing campaign money they lately awarded themselves, additionally in the name of “reform.”
Remember, these are largely people who may by no means dream of making actual money in the personal economic system, desirous to grab each stray greenback they’ll whereas the going’s good.
The Times can’t convey the hammer down on one official enemy of the arduous left whereas ignoring the proof that the complete barrel of apples is rotten.
Let’s see what they’re hiding and who they’re overlaying for.
