{"id":86355,"date":"2020-10-10T00:56:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T21:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/joe-bruno-longtime-ny-senate-majority-leader-lauded-at-funeral\/"},"modified":"2020-10-10T00:56:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T21:56:10","slug":"joe-bruno-longtime-ny-senate-majority-leader-lauded-at-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joe-bruno-longtime-ny-senate-majority-leader-lauded-at-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"#Joe Bruno, longtime NY Senate majority leader, lauded at funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Joe Bruno, longtime NY Senate majority leader, lauded at funeral<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Former state Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno was lauded Friday as an extraordinary public servant during a moving funeral mass upstate.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe give him back to God with great gratitude,\u201d said the Rev. Jim Walsh, pastor of Pope Pius X Roman Catholic Church in Loudonville.<\/p>\n

Bruno, 91, who was the Senate Republican majority leader from 1994 to 2008, died Wednesday after a bout with prostate cancer.<\/p>\n

E. Stewart Jones, a longtime friend, called Bruno an \u201cextraordinary man.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe talked about making opportunities, not waiting for opportunities. For the rest of his professional life that\u2019s what he did \u2014 created opportunities for all of us in this region, in this state, opportunities that are generational,\u201d said Jones, a lawyer who helped Bruno beat back corruption charges.<\/p>\n

John Flanagan, the former Long Island Republican state senator who served as majority leader after Bruno retired, called him a \u201cmentor\u201d and \u201cfather figure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe made me feel special, he made me feel like I was important and he did that for everyone. That was his gift,\u201d said Flanagan, who spoke at the funeral.<\/p>\n

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Bruno\u2019s funeral service is seen today outside Joseph L. Bruno Stadium.<\/span>Bernadette Hogan<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cHe treated people the way he wanted to be treated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Flanagan also said Bruno had a \u201cwork ethic beyond anyone\u2019s imagination.\u201d And he recalled fondly Bruno\u2019s bravado and sense of humor.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe used to tell me when I was doing well, he would say: you are doing so well, you could actually become the second greatest majority leader in the state. He could get away with saying that \u2026 he would absolutely be the first,\u201d Flanagan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was the real deal. If you were his friend, you were his friend for life. He never walked away.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the pallbearers was Robert Mujica, state budget director to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Mujica worked for Bruno in the state Senate before Cuomo hired him.<\/p>\n

Before the mass began, the funeral procession drove around the \u201cJoseph L. Bruno Stadium\u201d in Troy. Bruno was instrumental in delivering funds to build the stadium, where the Valley Cats\u2019 minor league baseball team plays.<\/p>\n

Afterwards, the procession drove around the state Capitol building before sending him to his final resting place at Oakwood Cemetery in his home of Troy.<\/p>\n

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Bruno, first elected to the senate in 1976, served as majority leader during the tenures of Govs. George Pataki, Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson. He represented Rensselaer and Saratoga counties.<\/p>\n

A Korean War veteran and Army boxing champ, Bruno recalled nearly coming to blows with Spitzer during a tense confrontation in his memoir, \u201cKeep Swinging.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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