Sunday, March 4, 2012

AN ACT TO FOLLOW.(Opinion)

This rather odd thought dawns as the state Legislature convenes for a special session today:

Eric DiBartolo for Senate majority leader. Or Assembly speaker.

Oh, it won't happen. Mr. DiBartolo isn't even a member of the Legislature. He's the Yorktown highway superintendent down in Westchester County. And we'd want to vet him a bit more.

But if nothing else, Mr. DiBartolo seems to understand the nature and consequences of such hard times. He does so in a way that Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, and, for that matter, Senate Minority Leader Malcolm Smith and Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco apparently don't. …

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