Weekend Sept 25, 2016
The Governor was directing a Buffalo Billion Plan to re-vitalize Buffalo, NY. Those indicted are charged with demanding payments to obtain valuable contracts
to build projects in the area.
But then there is plenty of corruption to go around in NY State. Former NY Senate Speaker Sheldon Silver sentenced to 12 yeas in prison.
Another dozen state lawmakers have plead guilty.
Mr. Silver was convicted on Nov. 30 of charges that included honest services fraud, money laundering and extortion. Upon his conviction, he forfeited his Assembly seat. Two weeks later, Dean G. Skelos, who as majority leader had been Mr. Silver’s Republican counterpart in the State Senate, was also convicted of corruption.
In the WSJ, columnist Holman Jenkins asks, If Not Trump Who Will Cure the Rot?
Jenkins notes the rise in shooting and murder in both Chicago and New York. He notes the indictments and convictions in New York cited above.
Not every problem can be solved with a modest policy tweak. Sometimes a wrecking ball is needed. Pollsters, in a moment of insight, have lately taken to describing the Trump voter as a compos mentis risktaker open to a high-risk, high-reward gamble.
This seems to get it about right. What kind of president would Mr. Trump make? We have no idea and there may be only one way to find out. But, whatever the case, America has deep problems of bureaucratic corruption, sterility and incompetence that increasingly argue for a wrecking ball.
What do you think?
3,000 shooting so far in 2016….
Professor Elam 
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