It's only April, but someone's trying to screw voters in Saratoga County

 According to today's Albany Times-Union, someone is posing as an elections official in Saratoga County, going door-to-door to question Democratic voters about signing a petition for Democratic county treasurer candidate Michelle Madigan.

Commissioner Cassandra Bagramian has put the word out to remind everyone that impersonating a licensed election official is a crime. Bagramian alerted her GOP counterparts, and, as of now, there is cooperation on both sides.

It's easy to assume that this scammer is a GOP operative, but we don't know that for sure. A similar scam was run in Warren & Washington counties last year. Madigan is running against Joann Kupferman in the general election in November.

This is the kind of bi-partisan cooperation that has been missing in Washington the last few years. In time, we'll learn who is responsible not only for this, but the scams last year as well. Personally, it's probably some independent contractor who is just looking to stir the pot. I hope they find this clown.

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All this week, lawyers for former president Donald Trump have tried and failed to delay his pending criminal trial in New York. The biggest perp walk to the courtroom of all time is set for Monday morning, and Trump is calling for his supporters to help him.

"I need you in New York on Monday, or all hell breaks loose!!!"

Yeah, he's that scared.

What the lawyers have tried is recycling previously dismissed motions to delay based on such things as pre-trial publicity. If you believe the popular notion that Trump wants to "run out the clock" in the hope he gets re-elected in November, that's a little too far fetched at this point. A lifetime of entitlement and privilege has led to this. Some believe that Trump, who will be 78 in June, is suffering from some form of dementia, which is what claimed the life of his father, Fred, some years ago. He doesn't have attorney Roy Cohn to save him, either.

Basically, if this goes as expected, Trump is SOL, and he deserves it.