Opinion

Fall housecleaning

That’s two down — but a whole heck of a lot more to go.

Sleazy Albany legislators exposed — deposed? — by The Post, that is.

State Sen. Shirley Huntley (D-Queens) and Assemblywoman Naomi Rivera (D-Bronx) — one under indictment, the other under multiple investigations — were both given the hook by voters in Thursday’s Democratic primaries.

And it wasn’t even close.

A third scandal-scarred pol, Assemblyman William Boyland (D-Brooklyn), survived — but only because he faced a multi-candidate opposition.

Boyland himself could only muster 37% of the vote.

Huntley and Rivera — whose misdeeds first came to light largely thanks to the efforts of The Sunday Post’s Candice M. Giove, Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein — weren’t so lucky.

Huntley, facing charges she covered up her niece having filched some $30,000 from a sham nonprofit Huntley created, was trounced by Councilman James Sanders, 57% to 40%.

And Rivera, who put two of her boy-toy lovers on publicly subsidized payrolls she controlled, was bounced by challenger Mark Gjonaj, a member of the Taxi & Limousine Commission, by 52% to 41%.

All of which should send a pretty strong message to their colleagues, their enablers and their protectors (ahem: Sheldon Silver) that voters are fed up with Albany’s culture of corruption.

And that incumbency is not the automatic protective shelter it once was.

Indeed, given recent developments, the power of the ballot box may prove to be the ultimate weapon in rooting out the Legislature’s miscreants.

Certainly, it’s proven far more effective than any ethical watchdog panel.

The occasional burst of sunshine hasn’t hurt, either. And The Post is proud of the role it has played in all this.

Reporting by Giove, Vincent, Klein and others also helped get the ethics ball rolling on Rep. Charlie Rangel and provided necessary context for understanding the scandal now bedeviling Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito Lopez.

Ultimately, it’s up to prosecutors to spring the trap on corrupt politicians.

But the voters showed last week that — once fully informed by journalistic enterprise — they’re ready to shut those politicians down.