Posted by
Mike Bates on Sunday, March 07, 2010 4:26:30 PM
The New York Times's City Room blog included a Friday piece on the
orphaned Web site of Hiram Monserrate, a former state senator who is
again running for office. From
"When
Not to Accept Comments:"
Now, as many will remember, the former Queens legislator
was tossed out of the State Senate in February after he was convicted
of assaulting his female companion. His vacant seat will be filled in a
special election on March 16 — an election in which, improbably, the
disgraced Mr. Monserrate is also a candidate, on the newly formed and
hopefully (or is it cynically?) named Yes We Can! line. (This proves,
definitively, that you can usually find more than enough New Yorkers to
take part in any crazy idea you have.)
Candidate Monserrate (Yes We Can, Queens) doesn’t have a Web site for
this campaign. But a few disgruntled residents found his old site and
left some less-than-friendly messages.
Conveniently left unmentioned is the party to which Monserrate
claimed allegiance as recently as last month. As reported
in The New York Times on February 9, 2010:
The State Senate on Tuesday expelled a senator convicted
of domestic assault, the first time in nearly a century that the
Legislature has forced a member from office.
The Senate voted 53-to-8 to immediately oust the senator, Hiram
Monserrate, a Queens Democrat convicted last fall of a misdemeanor for
dragging his companion down the hallway of his apartment building.
Amazing, isn't it, how quickly party affiliation is overlooked when
the perp is a Democrat? And yet, as documented repeatedly on
NewsBusters, quite predictable.