AG Eric Schneiderman’s other failure
What a brilliant job Jane Mayer of the New Yorker magazine did in the article on the sex life of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman that recently led to his resignation.
Eric Schneiderman was the attorney general who completely ignored the MoveOn.org petition I wrote, formally asking him, as attorney general, to go into federal court to request a judicial order to redo the fatally flawed 2016 New York primary after one-third of a million voters were purged and unable to vote in that primary. Just in Brooklyn and the Bronx alone, there were 128,000 voters who were disenfranchised, mostly Hispanic and African-American voters. (In the consolidated New York statutes, this would be akin to asking the New Mexico Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus.)
More than 7,000 people signed the petition, including 4,000-plus New Yorkers. I compiled their incisive comments into three articles at OpEdNews; I then sent the New York attorney general these articles along with the petition.
In Albany, N.Y., we are seeing Tammany Hall or worse all over again, except now with cellphones and iPads, and without William M. “Boss” Tweed and the 1860s handlebar moustaches. Albany’s corruption is obvious and ongoing, with Schneiderman in the thick of things.
We should be glad in New Mexico to not have such individuals “serving” at the highest levels of law enforcement or in the executive branch to the extent we read about in the New Yorker article.
Schneiderman, I believe, was part of the Hillary Clinton dream team of her top 100 highly placed advisers. The big picture was that that highly flawed New York primary and the purging of voters was all to be swept under the rug as much as could be. All seven of New York’s million-plus-reader newspapers largely ignored this issue, except for Shaun King at the New York Daily News.
I recall clearly how Clinton’s ensuing “victory” in the New York primary was then used to ratchet up her campaigning in the rest of the states; the newspapers in New York posited from then on that it was all over and “in the bag” for Hillary, as if the entire world of journalism and politics revolved around New York City. It was Bernie Sanders who suffered the most from this debacle as it progressed. (To learn more about the collapse of these processes and how miserably we run elections, please watch on YouTube the film Uncounted: The New Math of the American Elections.)
If top officials in a state abandon responsibilities as Schneiderman did, we as a nation are in more serious trouble than we usually realize. Read this article (www.newyorker.com/news/ news-desk/four-women-accusenew-yorks-attorney-generalof-physical-abuse) and judge for yourself, but do take this seriously.