Bonacic: Not Today
Republican State Senator John Bonacic, who publicly called for Joe Bruno to step down from his leadership position in the face of an FBI probe, wasn't in the Senate chamber when the conference re-elected Bruno to another two-year term.
Bonacic then avoided most of the reporters waiting for him at one of the Senate chambers by taking the long route from the Senate to the Assembly. Later, after Spitzer's State of the State, Bonacic tried slipping by the throng of reporters in the Assembly chamber's foyer who were waiting to chat with Mayor Bloomberg.
As he walked by, the tireless Michael Scotto of New York 1 News finally got Bonacic to talk, reluctantly.
"I don't think its appropriate today," he said. "The conference supported Joe Bruno, and this is not a day uh, to be belittling the leaders that the conference had picked. That's for another day."
-- Azi Paybarah
Just for the record, there is no "long way" to the Assembly chamber from the Senate chamber. It is 6 1/2, dozen of the other either way. In fact the way he took to get to the Assembly is shorter from the Republican side and is much nicer.
I assume you were using poetic license.
now that james brown is gone, micheal scotto is the hardest working man in show biz.
Bonacic just came through a nasty re-election battle and knows that being out in front on ethics issues is the way to get re-elected in 2008. That being said, John B takes his marching orders from Nassau Senator Dean Skelos--Bruno's floor leader.