Espada Will Pay Fines Whenever He Gets Around To It

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Pedro Espada (AP)
Incorrigible State Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. owes some $61,000 in fines to the city Campaign Finance Board for his failure to file legally-required disclosure documents when he ran for Bronx Borough President in 2001. Espada previously promised to pay his debt to society (part of it, anyway) on Monday. Today is now Wednesday, and they did not receive the money. When the Daily News dared pester him about it, Espada—presumably speaking through a cloud of cigar smoke while trimming his nose hair—had this to say: "They'll get their money." Espada also owes the state Board of Elections $10,309 in fines for failing to file routine financial disclosure reports. And there's 23 more disclosure reports the state board still wants from the Westchester Bronx representative. Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group calls Espada's behavior "mind-boggling... He should be operating at the highest standards." While we're at it, dogs should stop chasing squirrels, the subway should connect directly to LaGuardia, and donut ice cream sandwiches should be delivered to our offices at once.

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Just look at that face. Anyone in his right mind can see that he's trouble.

Pedro Espada is a bum and a crook.

This man epitomizes sleaze.

'Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group calls Espada's behavior "mind-boggling... He should be operating at the highest standards." '

while i agree with mr. horner that this is mind-boggling, i really take umbridge at the idea that following the law is somehow the "highest standards". if he won't pay his fines, can we hold him in jail, please?

Espada makes Rangel look like Mother Teresa.

And yet he will be re-elected next go-round anyway.

AND Yet his district will vote for him AGAIN.

Of course his district will elect him again. They don't care about qualifications. It's all about the ethnicity.

the same goes for Bloomberg. he will be voted again and so will Christine Quinn who plays the gay card to exempt her from criticism of all her corruption and theft

One word solution -
Impeachment
Two word hope for him
Prison time

He should be placed in a hanging cage in front of Yankee Stadium until he dies of exposure. But the best hope is that the Dems pick up a few more seats in the senate and then they won't need this asshole any more. Then hopefully they take away his leadership position, assign him to the dogwalking committee and ignore him.

if the bronx reelects this asshole, we should officially give it over to jersey, where sleaze is king.

BTW, Espada's lawyer Laurence Laufer used to be the lawyer for the campaign board that Espada owes the money to. Now he's taking money from the biggest sleeze in state politics to help him get away with breaking campaign laws. Nice.

Mmm, donut ice cream sandwiches.

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