Written by Michael Moran on July 21, 2010 – 5:32 am
A New York Post editorial today takes on the union-backed Working Families Party.
The paper writes: “The Working Families Party declared jihad on state Sen. Pedro Espada over the weekend, labeling the corrupt Bronx Democrat a symbol of “everything that’s wrong with Albany” and vowing to defeat him in the September primary.
Which is sort of like Boss Tweed giving lectures on political probity.
Sure: Espada, who led the Senate coup that threw Albany into chaos last year, is a bad actor — as this newspaper has thorougly documented. Post reporters have exposed how he used his Soundview Health Center as a piggy-bank, among other things.
Plus, he’s under state and federal investigation — that is, an easy target for dubious players intending to deflect attention from their own misdeeds.
But pretending that Espada is the biggest problem with Albany is either naive or cynical — and the union sock-puppet WFP is anything but naive.”