Well ... the sky is falling.

Pigs are flying.

Hell froze over.

James Tedisco has proposed legislation to regulate campaign fundraising "bundling".

I actually think this proposal is a good idea.

May 1, 2007 -- ALBANY - In a very public poke at Gov. Spitzer, Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco yesterday said he is introducing legislation that would limit how much fund-raising "bundlers" can pull together for a political campaign.

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"If anything defines pay to play, this is it," said Tedisco (R-Schenectady), whose bill would limit the amount an individual can raise for a candidate, a practice known as bundling, to $100,000.

Comparing those who bundle to "bagmen," Tedisco would also require a campaign to identify those who bundle for them and how much they raised, list the names, occupation, employer, and spouse's employer of all individual contributors, and list specific access gained by contribution level.

As to what do I think about Spitzer's sauntering to California for a re-election fundraiser? I only have one thing to say :

WHAT THE HELL WAS HE THINKING?!?!?!

Eliot Spitzer has barely warmed the governor's mansion in Albany and he is already fundraising for 2010? Is he nuts? In the middle of a "Reform Albany" campaign that looks to change campaign contribution practices?

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH SPITZER?!?!?

This fundraising insanity has to stop.

With only 55% of reported spending for the last election cycle, Follow the Money has already tallied more than $150 MILLION in spending for 2006; with about $46 million going to the candidates for governor.

I am not saying he shouldn't think of the future and make sure his campaign quarters have what they need to ensure his electoral success but, geezus-josef-and-maria, it is too early and highgly inappropriate for him to be fundraising for a job that he hasn't even be in for more than a year.

I am supposedly meeting Spitzer during next Wednesday's NYSDems Spring meeting. Honestly, I don't think I will have the time to get his ear but I have to ask him, "what the ...?"

The Spitzerator has to seriously slow down and focus on his job. Not as governor, but his job as "The Reformer". There is a lot he just has not done yet. Whatever he has done has not been enough for it to warrant for him to rundraise for a re-election.

If he needed a vacation he coould have taken it at less of a political cost.

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