Are minority scholarships your cause? They’re a good cause, even if there are other good causes as well, and certainly an appropriate cause for the New York State Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators. You can tell from the name that it’s old school, when Puerto Ricans were the only Latinos around. That hasn’t been the case in decades now, yet the name persists. But surely these would be people for whom this cause was important.
A nonprofit run by state lawmakers to raise scholarship money for needy minority students spends most of the cash on its lavish annual soiree — including $6,000 on limos — and gave out no grants the last two years, The Post has learned.
The New York State Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators organizes a “Caucus Weekend” — a series of workshops, concerts and parties — in Albany every February for minority members of the Assembly and the Senate.