DEAR READERS:
LAST YEAR ON JULY 6 I WROTE IN MY LETTER TO THE JOURNAL NEWS,
AND ON THE SAME WEEK IN THE NORTH COUNTY NEWS, MY BELIEF THAT
EVEN THOUGH OUR PARTICULAR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
REPRESTATIVES WERE NOT THEMSELEVES CORRUPT, THEY WERE IN FACT
GUITLY OF BEING ENABLERS, AND IN THE PROCESS DOING US THE VOTERS,
AND CITZENS OF THIS STATE A DISERVICE BY BEING SILENT ABOUT THE
CORUPTION ARROUND THEM. DURING THE GUY VELLLA SAGA, WE HEARD NOT
ONE PEEP FROM OUR REPS. AT ANY LEVEL. DURING THE SEXUAL HARRASMENT
SAGA OF ASEMBLY LEADER SHELDON SILVER'S AIDE, AND OF THE ASSEMBLY
LEADERS OWN TROUBLE ABOUT HIS STAY IN LAS VEGAS(WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO
THAT INVESTIGATION?) AGAIN OUR REPS. AT ALL LEVELS SILENCE IS AND HAS
BEEN DEAFENING. WE ALSO HAVE AN ONGOING INVESTIGATIO INTO REP.
CLARENCE NORMAND OF BROOKLYN FOR SELLING JUDGESHIPS(AGAIN THE PRESS
HAS KEPT US IN THE DARK ABOUT THAT) AND OUR REPS. ARE SILENT. IN THE
N.Y.C. COUNCIL , COUNCILMAN JENNINGS IS CENSURED AND FINE $5000.00
FOR HIS BEHAVIOR TWARDS WOMEN ON HIS STAFF. BACK TO THE GUY VELLLA
SAGA, EVEN AFTER HE WAS CONVICTED, THE STATE SENATE BOOSTED HIS PAY,
THERE BYE ALLOWING HIM TO COLLECT AN EVEN HIGHER PENSION. YES, I DID
SAY HE WAS ALLOWED TO COLLECT HIS PENSION, EVEN THO HE WAS CONVICTED
OF TAKING BRIBES. CITY CONCILMAN JENNINGS WAS STILL ALLOWED TO KEEP
HIS COUNCIL SEAT. IF YOU REMEMBER, STATE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SOL
WATCHLER, EVEN THO HE WAS CONVICTED AND SENTENCED TO JAIL, WAS ALLOWED
TO KEEP HIS PENSION, AND IS NOW A PAID STATE LOBBIEST. ALL THIS, AND OUR
REPS. AT ALL LEVELS ARE SILENT. SURE THEY TALK ABOUT REFORM, BUT NOBODY
REFORMS THE FACT THAT STATE OFFICIALS WHO VIOLATE THE LAW CAN ESCAPE
ALL PUNISHMENT BY RESIGNING. THEY CAN BE CONVICTED OF CRIMES AND STILL
BE ALLOWED TO KEEEP THEIR STATE PENSIONS THAT WE THE TAXPAYERS PAY!!!
TRY THAT IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR! NOBOBY AT ANYLEVEL OF GOVT. SPEAKS UP,
OR CHANGES THIS!!!! I BELIEVE THEY REMAIN SILENT FOR THREE REASONS.
1) NOBODY ON THE STATE SIDE WILL SPEAK UP OUT OF FEAR OF LOOSING THEIR
COMMITEE ASSIGNMENTS AND THE STIPPEND THAT COMES WITH IT.
2) ON THE LOCAL LEVEL THEY ARE AFRAID OF LOOSING STATE GRANT MONEY
BY EMBARASSING THEIR COLLEAGES BY TALKING ABOUT THIS TO THE PUBLIC.
3) YOUR SILENCE EMBOLDENS THEM TO REMAIN SILENT, FOR BY NOT SPEAKING
OUT BY E-MAIL OF LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, THEY BELIEVE (AND RIGHTLY SO IT
SEEMS) YOU DON'T CARE. AFTER ALL YOU KEEP RE-ELECTING THEM.
THIS IS ALL ON THE ELCECTED REPRESENTATIVE SIDE, IN A FUTURE BLOG I WILL
SHOW HOW THIS HAPPENS ON THE JUDICIAL SIDE FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN
JUDICIAL FIAT. I BELIEVE IT IS BOTH A DISERVICE AND ETHICALLY WRONG
FOR ELECTED REPS. CHARGED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUST, TO REMAIN SILENT
IN THE WAKE OF THE CURUPTION ARROUND THEM OUT OF POSSIBLE FEAR
OF RETAILIATION, LOSS OF MONEY, OR EVEN LOSS OF ELECTED OFFICE. I
BELIEVE WHEN EXPLAINED TO THE VOTING PUBLIC , THEY WILL ALWAYS SIDE
WITH THE OFFICIAL WHO KEEPS THE PUBLIC TRUST. ANOTHER "BAZZOISM"
"WHEN YOU DO WHAT'S RIGHT THE POLITICS WILL TAKE CARE OF ITSELF."
I BELIEVE THAT AN ELECTED OFFICIAL DOES NOT LOOSE HIS FIRST
AMMENDMENT RIGHT TO SPEACH BY VOICE, LETTER OF E-MAIL THEIR
OUTRAGE WHENEVER ABUSE OF THE PUBLIC TRUST TAKES PLACE. I BELIEVE WITH
THEIR VOICE ALONG WITH THE VOTERS AND THE PRESS , CHANGE CAN TAKE
PLACE. THAT AS ELECTED OFFICIALS IT IS THEIR DUTY TO VOICE THE
OUTRAGE OF THE VOTERS THAT PUT THEM IN OFFICE.
I KNOW THIS SOUNDS "PIE IN THE SKY", BUT I ALSO BELIEVE PUBLIC OFFCIALS
SHOULD APPEAL TO OUR AND THEIR BETTER ANGELS, THEN SIDE WITH
CYINISISM. POLITICS AND PUBLIC SREVICE SHOULD BE A NOBLE ATTAINMENT,
AND COULD BE WHEN ELECTED OFFICIALS PUT THEIR TRUST IN THE PEOPLE.
THE SAD FACT IS THAT NONE OF THIS IS POSSIBLE WHLE YOU THE VOTER, YOU
THE TAXPAYER, YOU THE CITIZEN REMAIN SILENT. IN OUR REPRESENTATIVE
GOVERNMENT, POWER COMES FROM THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED, AND
SO WHATEVER ACTIONS THE ELECTED REPS. CHOOSE, IT IS WITH YOUR CONSENT,
BY VOICE, BY VOTE OR BY SILENCE. IT IS UP TO YOU TO CHOOSE THE POWER
YOU WISH TO YEILD.
BAZZO 04/24/05
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