Malcolm In The Middle
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The New York Daily News is reporting that freshly-deposed New York State Senate Majority leader Malcolm Smith, may have instigated the recent Republican coup against Democrats in the state’s senate. Apparently, during an April policy meeting with billionaire/frequent gubernatorial candidate Tom Golisano, Sen. Smith took to constant BlackBerry interaction – repeatedly checking and sending email messages.
According to the politically influential, yet quitely perturbed Golisano, Senator Smith couldn’t resist the temptations of the nearby QWERTY keyboard:
“When I travel 250 miles to make a case on how to save the state a lot of money … and the guy comes into his office and starts playing with his BlackBerry, I was miffed.”
Golisano, after the meeting, presumably worked behind the scenes to overthrow Smith and support the defection of two Senate Democrats to the Republican side of the aisle – returning chamber control to the Republicans.
Smart phone versus the smart businessman.
You make the call:
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