A lesson on following the rules
  A debate on a bill to prohibit “canned shoots” in the Assembly this evening drew a testy exchange between Sponsor Deborah Glick, D-Manhattan, and Assemblyman Greg Ball, R-Patterson, Putnam County. Ball was one of several lawmakers who challenged the legislation, saying it could put deer and elk farmers who allow hunting on their land out of business.
  Glick, who is in her ninth term in the Assembly, told Ball, a freshman lawmaker, that he needed to let her answer his questions and not interrupt. “Well, Mr. Ball, we have rules of the house and you may not be aware of them,” she said.
  Ball complained that he had asked a “yes or no” question, and Glick was not giving a direct “yes or no” answer.
  “No, no, no, no, no. You don’t understand. I can respond however I choose to,” Glick said.
  Speaker Pro Tempore Aurelia Greene, D-Bronx, agreed with Glick, and asked that Ball and Glick “be patient with one another.”
  Ball said he hadn’t meant to upset Glick.
  The bill would prohibit killing, shooting, maiming or injuring of certain intentionally confined animals for sport or amusement or the taking of a trophy.
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Once again the true voice of the people was not heard in Albany..A2612 was beaten, but the Assembly Maj. Leader Sheldon Sliver came out and beat the snot out of his Demc. members that had the good sence not to vote for the bill but then 8 members did the “flip” and allowed this to be carried 76-59…all of the States Deer & Elk farmers are going to not have an end market if this bill gets threw the Senate. The real (canned hunt) was when Sliver forced grown men, paid with tax dollars to represent the will of their respective citizens to vote the party line. This should not happen here in Albany..bad bills get passed and people’s way off life upstate gets affected to please some NY City assemblywomen’s pledge to the HUMS in which she is getting a fat donation from..