While surfing around the blogoshere this evening, I ran across the following information courtesy of ReformNY, the Brennan Center blog. The folowing is the original info from the Times Union Blog.

Maloney Connects The Energy Dots
August 3, 2006 at 3:21 pm by Elizabeth Benjamin

In the wake of recent heat-related power outages, Democratic AG candidate Sean Patrick Maloney, from whom we haven’t heard a whole lot lately, called today for increased oversight of the Public Service Commission and said it isn’t doing its job because it’s larded with patronage appointees.

Maloney noted three of the four PSC commissioners (paid $109,800) and PSC Chairman Bill Flynn (paid $127,000) are Republican donors. The most recently appointed commissioner - Cheryl Buley - is married to lobbyist Jeff Buley, whose business partner is Al Pirro, husband of Republican AG candidate Jeanine Pirro.

Maloney alleged that Cheryl Buley, a former PR executive and one-time state Racing and Wagering Board member, doesn’t have the experience to be a PSC commissioner, and called her “New York’s Mike Brown” (the disgraced former FEMA head who became the poster child of the botched federal response to Hurricane Katrina.

“The Public Service Commission’s cronyism and incompetence hurts ordinary New Yorkers,” said Maloney, adding that he plans to attend a PSC hearing in Queens tonight.

Maloney’s list of who gave what to whom follows:

Follow the “original info link” for the rest of the article.

My question, after reading this, is - If this information is being uncovered by Sean Maloney, candidate for State Attorney General, why hasn’t Eliot Spitzer found the time to investigate this type of stuff? These are the things that affect NY more negatively than anything else.