Ball reneges on invitation to teen whale-legislation-plagiarism victim

[hrmjustin]

Casey Seiler, Capitol bureau chief

The Chicago high school student whose commentary on the plight of killer whales in captivity ended up uncredited in one of Sen. Greg Ball’s bills won’t be coming to Albany for Ball’s May 28 Animal Advocacy Day at the Capitol.

The TU reported in February that a piece of legislation sponsored by Ball cribbed language from two sources: student Donald J. Rapier’s piece on killer whales, which appeared in January on the Huffington Post, and a Los Angeles Times interview with the director of the documentary “Blackfish.”

After more borrowed material appeared in other measures introduced by Ball, all of his bill memos were temporarily scrapped. Ball’s office said the staffer responsible for the lifting was fired after the borrowing came to light.

http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/212514/ball-reneges-on-invitation-to-teen-whale-legislation-plagiarism-victim/

[dorkzilla]

1. God this guy is an asshat

I'm sick of reading about this jerk. I wish he'd just go the eff away.

[hrmjustin]

3. You will like this.

http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/2014/05/skelos-does-not-expect-ball-to-run-again/

[dorkzilla]

4. WOOHOOO!!!

Lookie here! It's official!!! He's not running again. Probably going to become a lobbyist for the scatological chapeau industry, being the world-renowned expert in asshat-dom that he is.

http://www.lohud.com/story/news/politics/2014/05/16/greg-ball-seek-reelection/9164567/

[hrmjustin]

5. I hope you get a democrat but that is not likely.

[hrmjustin]

2. Skelos Does Not Expect Ball To Run Again

http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/2014/05/skelos-does-not-expect-ball-to-run-again/