Is there an impeachment process in place for state governors (“Young & Poor Hit Hardest,” Oct. 17)?
What Gov. Spitzer is doing to Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco, who has the temerity to oppose his irresponsible licenses-for-illegal-aliens plan, is practically extortion. The last time I looked, extortion was a crime.
Somehow, the steamroller has to be steam-rolled himself. Please, for the sake of New York.
Louie Rey
East Meadow
I did not think that even Spitzer himself would sink so low as to eliminate already-agreed-upon crucial funding for a critical health-care clinic.
Is this his idea of being a steamroller – running over the poor and needy?
Everybody knows that New York state politics is a hardball game. It has been so since way back in the times of Tammany Hall. But now Spitzer is being menacing and hateful.
Spitzer is going to lose this fight over his stupid plan to give illegal aliens driver’s licenses, thanks to the determination and integrity of representatives like Tedisco.
Sen. Majority Leader Joe Bruno is right: Spitzer is not fit to govern.
If this is what Spitzer thinks governing is all about, then I want him out of office.
Tom Cahill
Jackson Heights
In 1970, the late Rep. Shirley Chisholm of Brooklyn looked at the assembled delegates at a Democratic state committee meeting and called them a bunch of robots.
When the vengeful Democratic governor of New York placed the health of the people of Schenectady at risk by deleting them from his budget health projects, there was no reaction at all from Democrats of either the Assembly or Senate.
Isn’t that sufficient proof that the sainted Shirley was right?
David S. Levine
Hobe Sound, Fla.