A-144: Sam Hoyt Avoids Punishment For Affair With Intern
Tags: Buffalo, corruption, Sam Hoyt
Looks like Sam Hoyt has been given a virtual pass from his buddies in the Assembly:
Assemblyman Sam Hoyt escaped the most serious punishment by his Assembly colleagues for his extramarital affair with an intern, but college interns have been banned from his Albany and Buffalo offices.
The ban, announced Friday by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, followed a finding by the Assembly Ethics and Guidance Committee that the Buffalo Democrat had engaged in an “inappropriate personal relationship” with the woman, who was an intern when the affair began.
But stronger penalties — a formal censure or loss of his committee chairmanship — was not taken because she no longer was an intern in 2004 when the Assembly banned fraternization between lawmakers and interns.
Well, another Democrats gets away. Big shock.
Gerry Studds would be so proud.
Matt Margolis is co-author (with Mark Noonan) of Caucus of Corruption: The Truth About The New Democratic Majority. He also blogs at Blogs For Victory. Follow Matt on Twitter.
So, big surprise. Sam Hoyt escapes serious punishment for sleeping with an intern. No censure. No loss of chairmanship. His punishment? No more interns. Somewhere a former-assemblyman from Buffalo is banging his head on the desk. He sleeps on the floor of an intern and gets censured. Hoyt has sex with one and he gets a wink and a thumbs up.
Democrats should be ashamed at how far your party has fallen.
-J.B.
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