Joe Bruno Hides Behind Dead Trooper

Lipris over at The Albany Project reports on the latest of Joe Bruno's scummy behavior. Bruno has been attacking Governor Spitzer over campaign finance reform. While fighting against reform, he had the audacity to invoke the memory of David C. Brinkerhoff, the State Trooper who was killed by friendly fire this past week. This type of talk hardly merits being classified as a human being, even for a New York State Senator.

From Newsday:

But Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno (R-Brunswick) remained combative. He railed against what he said were Spitzer's misplaced priorities.

Bruno then seized on the killing of a state trooper, saying, "What is more important than protecting the lives of law enforcement people? ... Is campaign finance reform more important than that? I don't think so."

Shame on Joe Bruno for sinking to this level. Campaign finance reform has nothing to do with the tragedy of the state trooper killed last week. Protecting law enforcement is always important, but so is having a clean state government. We can certainly do both without having to use this ugly political discourse. Like Lipris said, Bruno has to go, to prison. It is time.