{"id":902,"date":"2009-06-11T13:22:34","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T13:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=902"},"modified":"2009-06-11T13:22:34","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T13:22:34","slug":"the_chaos_continues_in_albany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=902","title":{"rendered":"The Chaos Continues In Albany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2009\/06\/11\/2009-06-11_judge_rules_against_democrats_in_albany_gop_holds_session_without_them.html\">Daily News<\/a>&nbsp;is reporting that a New York judge has refused to block the takeover of the New York Senate by Republicans.&nbsp; The Republicans attempted to meet today, but adjourned until Monday because only two Democrats showed up.&nbsp; According to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;The new leaders said they couldn&#8217;t conduct business because the Democrats locked away all the bills and other documents.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>They also didn&#8217;t have the needed 32 votes to pass a bill because one of the dissident Democrats, <\/em><a title=\"Hiram Monserrate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/Hiram+Monserrate\"><font color=\"#015fb6\"><em>Sen. Hiram Monserrate<\/em><\/font><\/a><em> of <\/em><a title=\"Queens County\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/Queens+County\"><font color=\"#015fb6\"><em>Queens<\/em><\/font><\/a><em>, said he won&#8217;t vote on anything until more Democrats join the session.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The abbreviated session began after <\/em><a title=\"George Ceresia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/George+Ceresia\"><font color=\"#015fb6\"><em>Supreme Court Justice George Ceresia<\/em><\/font><\/a><em> rejected a request from Democrats to delay the takeover &#8211; but agreed to hear more arguments.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Governor of New York has stated that he will work with the Senate&#8217;s elected leaders.&nbsp; Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Daily News&nbsp;is reporting that a New York judge has refused to block the takeover of the New York Senate by Republicans.&nbsp; The Republicans attempted to meet today, but adjourned until Monday because only two Democrats showed up.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=902\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}