Americans are angry.  New Yorkers are angry.  Carl is running on angry.  I know you want to throw the bums out.  Me, too.  But our NYS problems are FAR bigger than any individual, even a pugilistic cranky one with a big stick.  Over the years the Republicans have created our problems…and so have the Democrats!  Our problems are embedded in Albany.  Entrenched.  Institutionalized.  Our Legislature is encrusted in partisan barnacles. 

There’s just one solution.  We must supercede the pols–all the pols.  Go over their ostrich heads by compelling the Legislature to permit an NYS constitutional convention way before 2018. 

Change the players  all you want–if we don’t change the rules, it won’t matter. 

The single best litmus question you can ask any state-level candidate this year is:  Will you promise to support a citizen-led constitutional convention ASAP?

Be wise.  Don’t play their angry, huffy game.  Change the game.  Channel your anger.  Focus it like a laser on changing the rules our elected officials play by.  Use a constitiutional convention to install:  Term limits.  Spending caps.  Tax caps.  Borrowing caps.  Full transparency of money.

Use your anger wisely.  Don’t waste it on personalities.