In a recent editorial in the Times Herald-Record Ken Hall writes - “Next time I take a week off from writing editorials, I might recruit Marcus Molinaro, former mayor of Tivoli, member of the GOP Assembly road show team and master of a good political vocabulary.

I complimented him on his use of some editorial favorites to describe the state Legislature, words such as “lazy” and “gluttonous.”

Don’t forget “bloated,” he said.

Add a few active verbs and he could be on his way to a new profession. Not that he wants one. He wants to stay in Albany and clean it up. He candidly admits that there are those among his colleagues who say the same things but don’t really mean them.

So he and others in the longest-suffering minority party caucus in the nation are on a crusade to change the way the Legislature works.

In the past, similar efforts would have met with cynicism. Sure, they want to change the rules whey they are out of power; let them run things and they’ll be just as bad. That’s what happened when power shifted to the Democrats in the Senate, and there’s no reason to believe it won’t happen in the Assembly…

A new governor will make a difference. That new governor, however, will find, as Eliot Spitzer did, that changing Albany comes down to one thing.

It all starts with getting rid of Sheldon Silver, speaker of the Assembly, said Molinaro and Assemblyman Steve Hawley during a visit this week. There is no doubt that Silver will win re-election this fall and little question that he will win the secret vote among Assembly Democrats, emerging in the first weeks of January to take his customary place at the center of everything.”

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