Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos continues to insist that the coup was well worth it, and then tries to turn things around by hanging expelled ex-Sen. Hiram Monserrate and Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. around the necks of the Democrats.

“There were a lot of positive things that occurred in terms of the structural operation of the senate in Albany, but also beyond that, the direction that the state was going, with taxes and spending, it was just becoming impossbile to stop and something dramatic had to be done….so positive things, I think did occur. Positive things that will last into the future.”

“…I would ask the Senate Democrats, who readily embraced Sen. Monserrate…and they essentially brought Senator Espada back through a conference action of making him the majority leader, which he continues to be the majority leader.”

“So the issue for us was stopping things that were happening and reform. The issue for them was bringing them back to power.

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