When Did The Senator Look, And Who Did He Look At?

Alex Balk
The Awl
Published in
1 min readJun 30, 2009

Earlier today, Senate Democrats in New York state capital Crazytown proclaimed that they had achieved a quorum in the chamber because Republican Sen. Frank Padavan-UNRELATED, but while you’re here, isn’t “Senator Padavan” some kind of character from Star Wars?-wandered through the chamber and “made eye contact” with the Senate clerk. The video of Gov. David Paterson above, in which he explains that, to be fair to all parties, he will not sign any legislation passed by the Democrats during the disputed eyeballing session, is pretty much all you need to know about exactly how ludicrous this entire situation is.

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