Joe Bruno Gives Up, Not Seeking Re-Election

Late-breaking news out of Albany is that Joe Bruno is not going to seek re-election to the New York State Senate. Joe has been there for more than three decades, but now the Majority Leader is calling it quits. Being the last day of the legislative session, he picked a decisive time to leave, with just enough time for a Republican candidate to run out and start collecting petition signatures. The question is, why is he dropping out now? Is the reason a legal situation or a political one....and don't try and tell me he wants to spend more time with his family, that one is wayyyy too played out.

Since the whole FBI situation has seemed to stall for some time now, the general mood that the State Senate will flip to the Democratic Party is the likely reason. Joe Bruno is so powerful in Albany because he controls the State Senate, care of the Republican majority. Now that the Democrats are only two seats away and have several strong challenges going for this election cycle, the time might be right for this septuagenarian to call it a day and a political career. If renovations for the Minority caucus room mean anything, Republicans really do sense that their time of Senatorial power is at an end.

So now Joe can ride off into the sunset this fall (if the FBI doesn't catch up to him of course) and perhaps a few other elderly Republicans might follow him as well. This house of cards might truly fall and fall fast. Just one more reason for me to look forward to November.