I can't say I am surprised given that this is the only issue where he seems to gain any attention outside of his jurisdiction, but if that is the first issue you can point to in a debate within your jurisdiction and before your constituents after serving in the Assembly since 2004, I think this is laughable.
The most troubling part of his answer is evident when viewed in the context of the question that he purported to respond to.
Specifically, he was asked: "Can you point to a specific piece of legislation [] that has benefited the taxpayers of New York State?"
His response:
Probably the single effort that I did, and I won’t say that it's the most important, is my single effort to keep ultimate fighting out of New York State. And why those who advocate this violent and vicious sport for the reason that it will bring money to this state, I, in fact, claim it will not. The owners of ultimate fighting [sic] who have recently spent $174,000, giving that money to various legislators and political parties and have paid their lobbyists $10,000 a month for a number of years are in fact in bankruptcy court in Las Vegas at this very moment to the tune of $7 billion. These are the people who some people advocate bringing in to New York. I'm proud of the fact that almost single-handedly I have kept this out of New York not only because violence begets violence and it’s not what we should have in our state, but also it ultimately saves us money by not having this sport in New York.Putting aside the flaws in his arguments which have been discussed here and elsewhere ad nauseam, I am not sure about you, but if the very first thing my representative had to say specifically on legislation that benefited the taxpayers of New York (and in a debate on state and local issues of importance and at a time when unemployment is high and people are hurting), is that he has kept "ultimate fighting" out of the state, I would swiftly kick that representative to the curb.
He was not done of course. In response to the question concerning what bill he will write and work for if he is reelected, he, again, after acknowledging that it is not a bill that he will work for (i.e. he acknowledges it is not in response to the question), states he will be working against the bill to bring "ultimate fighting" to this state.
He is a joke and the people in the 109th should vote him out next week.
Fight Lawyer
