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Less than a month after stepping down as majority leader of New York's Senate and less than a week after retiring from the legislature, Joe Bruno parlayed his influence as the most powerful Republican in the state into a cushy new job. The Glens Falls native has been hired as chief executive of CMA Consulting Services, a company which provides information technology to many clients... including the state of New York.
I thought the legislature passed some rule a few years ago requiring that retired legislators wait a certain amount of time before becoming a lobbyist or taking a job that otherwise does business with the state. I guess I was wrong.
Maybe he needs the money to pay for lawyers related to the ongoing FBI investigation into his business dealings.
Joe Bruno has already diverted enough of our tax dollars toward gargantuan corporate welfare giveaways and grandiose projects like a baseball stadium named after himself, I guess he wants to start putting some of it directly in his own pocket.
This sort of legalized influence peddling is precisely what helps make Albany home the most dysfunctional state legislature in the country.
Update: I neglected to mention that the other key figure in this company is the wife of the late state Sen. Ron Stafford, one of the most influential North Country legislators of the last half century and probably the only person in state history who delivered more pork than Bruno himself.
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I think the law you're referring to is the one passed by our Congress in terms of House members. Don't know if it effects the federal Senate or if NYS passed their own version.
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