Lee Strong at the Gates Blog commented about the refusal of local State Assembly Democrats to meet with Monroe County Executive Brooks while she was in Albany to discuss local projects. Apparently, the snub is intended to chastise her for not being "cooperative" with Democratic leaders on many topics, most notably, the sales tax intercept and the Public Defender selection process.
Not surprisingly, the ringleader of this classy ploy is David Gantt. Gantt claims that Brooks should have intervened in the Public Defender process, which he claims has been "politicized". He's right that the process has been politicized, but he's the one who did it. You see, for David Gantt and his fellow Democrats "bipartisan cooperation" means the Republicans have to agree to do what the Democrats want.
As I noted on the Gates Blog, it always seems that the guys who yell the loudest about working together are among the first to act as partisans when it suits their needs. Mr. Gantt continues to "exceed" the lowest expectations of the proper conduct of an elected official.
A review of his "accomplishments" as an Assemblyman, reveals that his signature act is saying "no". He is generally associated with blocking things, like the request for a sales tax increase (which led to the F.A.I.R. plan) and refusing to allow the soccer stadium to be built in Gates. The Rhinos difficulties with Pae-Tec Park are due, at least in part, to its location, a location which Mr. Gantt had a large say in.
I think its fairly obvious that the fact that Gantt is the "dean" of the Rochester area legislative delegation, explains why we so often get short shrift in Albany. Gantt complaining about Brooks being "uncooperative" is simply laughable.
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Repoman:
Lighten up. You act as if "low class acts" are something new to local politics. The partisianship of both county republicans and democrats is about equally obnoxious. Regardless of party, "class" within the political world around here hasn't been seen since the days of Barber Conable, Lucian Morin and Tom Ryan. Unfortunately, they are no longer the model.
The one good thing about these "leaders" failure to cooperate is that maybe it will slow down or stop yet another ludicrous idea like Ren Square,from putting us deeper into debt. Fact is that
county and state politics has degenerated into ego, power, control, addiction to proving oneself right. Class defined by me as a generosity of spirit - resulting in an exchange of ideas in seach of an agreed upon solution for the betterment of The Community of Monroe- we don't have that in our politics. Lets' not pretend that we do. Only by acknowledging a problem can we correct it.
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