So the Repugs take back control of the NY State Senate?

What happened? Was it the gay marriage bill that caused the Dem deflections? Will the gay marriage bill die now since the bigots took over?

that I missed?

:(

The local news last night said that they had switched parties.

:o

The other is listed as undecided on gay marriage in a lot of online vote counts of gay marriage in the state senate.

Any good background articles?

Basically two fake Democrats, both under investigation for different crimes, decided to vote for Republican leadership. Both were opposed to gay marriage and also opposed a good plan to save the MTA by putting 2 dollar tolls on east and harlem river bridges. They'll fit in better with the GOP.
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Call it a coup, call it a devious plan to change leadership, but at the end of the day Democrats are out of power in the New York State Senate and Republicans were.

It's a story with some really wild twists and turns.

Who could forget Espada and his run-ins with CBS 2 after we discovered he doesn't even live in his Bronx district, and wore an orange ski hat when he was confronted about it in front of his real home in Mamaroneck?

Turns out the real joke is on Espada's Democrat colleagues in the Senate after he and Monserrate, who has been indicted for attacking his girlfriend, sold out Senate Democrats and voted with the Republicans to make Rockville Sen. Dean Skelos the new majority leader.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/08/politics/main5073657.shtml

and faces 7 years. The other is accused of steering almost $1 million in state contracts to a company he owns.

These are low life scum -- but sadly not that unusual for Albany state senators and assemblymen.

Once, when I was a very young summer intern at a law firm, I was allowed to sit in on a conference about a lawsuit over an insurance case involving an elevator company whose employee was badly injured.

The suit and a lot of money turned on an obscure provision of NY insurance law. The lawyers were trying to explain the probabilities of winning or losing in a lawsuit.

The company president started hinting that instead of going forward with the lawsuit perhaps they could change the law. He was insinuating that he was willing to do certain things in Albany.

The lawyer just exploded at the client and started yelling, "are you suggesting I go to Albany with a suitcase full of cash? Is that what you're asking me to do? I know just which lawyers will do that for you, and I know it will work, but I'm not that kind of lawyer!"

That's how the New York State Senate and Assembly work.

against a woman. So I'm sure he's very much a defender of traditional values!