The following was my letter to editor published in the Gazette yesterday.
In evaluating our public officials and how well they represent us, it is best to focus on the merits of policies and ideas, and not on personal characterizations or motivations. However, our public officials make this difficult.
Case in point is the promise made by many New York State legislators during the last campaign that they would support a non-partisan redistricting commission to draw the new district lines. Now that the republicans have regained the majority in the state senate, all of them are reneging on this promise.
In particular, I attended several campaign events during the last election season in which my state senator Hugh Farley supported the non-partisan commission. He now says he wants a constitutional amendment that cannot possibly become effective until the next cycle, 10 years from now!
I just cannot understand how he could look us straight in our eyes and lie. To make things worse, we keep electing him and people like him to office year after year.
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