The governor "transformed Albany, " they both said, from a place with "corruption and scandal" into "a national model for effective government by avoiding the gridlock and partisan politics" of Washington.
Disempowering the periodic winners, from whichever side, in the increasingly expensive battle to control the levers of government is the only non-partisan approach that strikes directly at the root of the business model of politics a business model based on endless bouts of expansive legislation.