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Neighborhood Chat / Re: March for Public Schools this Saturday
« on: March 24, 2017, 01:19:41 PM »
I fully understand the implications of the hostile amendment. Mainline Dems did this for symbolic reasons and guess what? The IDC failed the symbolic test. They can claim all they want that they support progressive issues because their allies the Republicans will never let most of these bills leave committee and go to the floor. The IDC could come out publicly today and say they are in support of a bill that would give all New Yorkers a free car, knowing full well they only gain support of liberal New Yorkers with no political fall out.
And as someone who voted for Peralta twice and has signed petitions for his support, I find it telling that he promised us that nothing would change in terms of his votes in the Town Hall he held in February. And now we see that he is voting as he is required to by Jeff Klein, who must vote in a way that pleases the Senate Republicans. He is compromised and we won't let him get away with it.
Sure if Peralta wasn't an IDC member we wouldn't be bothering him about his walk out. But he made the choice to join the conference that literally exists to power-share with the Senate Republicans. He claims to gain nothing from it but I guarentee that he is waiting for the big money no-work "consultation fees" that Senator Ortt from Niagara Falls just got indicted for. He sold out his constituents for so little.
And as someone who voted for Peralta twice and has signed petitions for his support, I find it telling that he promised us that nothing would change in terms of his votes in the Town Hall he held in February. And now we see that he is voting as he is required to by Jeff Klein, who must vote in a way that pleases the Senate Republicans. He is compromised and we won't let him get away with it.
Sure if Peralta wasn't an IDC member we wouldn't be bothering him about his walk out. But he made the choice to join the conference that literally exists to power-share with the Senate Republicans. He claims to gain nothing from it but I guarentee that he is waiting for the big money no-work "consultation fees" that Senator Ortt from Niagara Falls just got indicted for. He sold out his constituents for so little.