NY-27: Shills For Brian Higgins
by Matt at Jul 24th, 2008
It’s amusing to see that once I started going after Rep. Brian Higgins for failing to get results for his constituents (particularly his abandoning the tearing down of the Skyway for at least another decade) that suddenly a bunch of liberals come out of the woodwork defending Higgins and touting his so-called accomplishments. Believe it or not there are a few people who think Higgins has done more than just smile for the camera, and actually “works his ass off every single day to change people’s minds about Buffalo and WNY.” Which certainly explains why the population here keeps going down year after year.
Of course, maybe I’ve been too hard on him. After all, Higgins ranks quite low in influence in the House of Representatives, 333 out of 435. He also ranks in the bottom half for the 2004 class, and is in the bottom of the barrel for this state.
But you’re not going to read that on Higgins’ congressional or campaign websites.
But hey, when there’s not much to credit Higgins with, you can always accuse his opponent of “purveying cancer” or come up with some other silly red herring. Perhaps after that we can blame anyone connected to industries that produce or sell food for causing obesity.
Brian Higgins has done far more harm than good for the Buffalo area. The money he got from the NYSPA for the waterfront is a pittance compared to the high electric rates we continue to pay. It is minuscule compared to the “excess revenue” generated by the Niagara Power Plant. According to my sources, Higgins settled with the Power Authority at the urging of Pataki and Slaughter so that hundreds of millions of dollars would continue to flow to NYS in the form of “gifts” each year to the State. That settlement also facilitated the relicensing of the Power Authority for another 50 years of fleecing WNY electricity consumers.
He can also be thanked for the creation of the ECHDC, another unelected bureaucratic agency spending our money.