Jeff Brown Breaks Republican Bank to Steal Seat

By Mark David Blum, Esq.

Already having spent more than ¾ of a million dollars, Josef Bruno and the Deep Pocket Republicans are working overtime to unseat a productive and valuable State Senator for only one reason; because they the Republicans want to expand and strengthen their choke hold around the neck of the Senate and New Yorkers. Compelling Jeff Brown to quit his Assembly Seat, Bruno has put a pretty face on the ugly attempt for Party domination.

He is doing a great dishonor to the Citizens of Upstate New York. By joining Bruno, Brown would increase State spending on downstate projects and give Brown a smaller less significant voice in government.

Jeff Brown has a history of Big Party Spending, Big Government Building, Patronage, and putting Senior Citizens under the submission of Big government and Big Pharma. We also see that one of his largest special interest contributors is the Oneida Indian Nation whose Chief Counsel, Peter Carmen is a former classmate of Jeff Brown. Giving nearly $2.1million dollars to Bruno and his campaign shows how tight the grasp will be held around Brown’s neck should he be elected. Not surprising, in March of this year, Governor Pataki criticized a spending plan put forward by the State Assembly increasing spending by 4.1 percent. Notably, Republican Senate Majority Leader Josef Bruno promised the increase in spending would go to New York City Schools.

It was about a year ago as well that Jeff Brown authored and sought passage of A0229 which would take $100,000.00 of our tax dollars, to fund a “temporary state commission” comprised of legislators and other ‘friends of Brown’ to find an easier way to distribute funds to schools throughout the State. That is Brown’s job and passing the buck and 100 thousand bucks of OUR money is an abdication of his responsibility and slathering patronage upon friends.

Having finagled his way as a first term Assemblyman onto the all-powerful Assembly Health Committee, Brown has established himself as a good friend of major pharmaceutical companies and other health providers. Pretending to be a friend to Seniors, in reality Brown has used his office to block access to Canadian drugs and pain relief. Instead, Brown wants Government to create yet another bureaucracy and give out patronage while turning over the pharmaceutical pricing to the whims of Josef Bruno.

Jeff Brown, himself an attorney, has also sponsored a Bill which feeds trial lawyers (A.3933). With the rest of America complaining about jury awards and greedy trial lawyers, Brown brought forward legislation which creates a whole new pot of money. Every contractor in the State is being exposed to QUADRUPLE damages for contract disputes. What could bait a lawyer and a lawsuit more than the chance of quadrupling damages. More importantly, what Republican and Conservative would stand up before his electorate and declare his desire to encourage litigation and increase jury damages. This is a true anti business policy.

Finally, let’s not forget how hard Jeff worked to use the so-called activist and liberal courts to assure he had no opponent on the ballot. His strategic win is also considered a win for Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno. Even the State Conservative Party Chairman opines, “It was very clear to me that if we’re going to try to be competitive and try to take that seat back and promote some, whether it be big or small, Conservative agenda, the best road for us to travel was for us to support Jeff Brown … I think this is the best way to keep New York on the right track. I think it’s paramount to keep the Senate majority.”

That last comment, friends, is what I feel the Brown candidacy for Senate is all about. There is only one goal … that is to solidify and enlarge the Republican domination of the Senate. On his own, Brown is just a mouthpiece for big government, big patronage, big tribes, big litigation, and a big finger in the eye of his constituency.

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