{"id":14507,"date":"2017-05-15T12:21:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T16:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=14507"},"modified":"2017-05-15T12:21:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T16:21:15","slug":"cash-is-king-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=14507","title":{"rendered":"Cash is King"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ken Lovett<\/a> has uncovered what is keeping the Senate Republicans<\/a> and IDC<\/a> together: Money<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan\u2019s<\/a> decision to dole out questionable stipends<\/a> to seven state senators was the result of various competing interests, insiders say … an attempt to keep eight breakaway Democrats aligned with the GOP in a leadership coalition happy and Flanagan\u2019s desire to appease a number of his own upstate Republican members who feel the Independent Democratic Conference, or IDC, were given too much influence and too many perks, all played a part in the unusual payouts. \u201cIt\u2019s a combination of all of it,\u201d said one GOP senator …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shit like this is why New York leads the nation in corrupt politicians.\u00a0 Flanagan has the balls to make funny money payouts even after both Shelly<\/a> and Dean<\/a> went down for corruption.<\/p>\n