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Cuomo’s Shadow Governor-ing
NY Magazine’s Intelligencer calls Cuomo “the shadowy fourth man in the Albany room,” a play on the old adage that New York is run by three men in a room (Governor, Senate President, Speaker of the Assembly):
Publicly, Cuomo has supported Paterson’s positions at key moments while not appearing to meddle. When the Legislature tried to replace school-aid cuts with tax increases, Cuomo spoke out forcefully on Paterson’s behalf at a press conference. Behind the scenes, Cuomo has
Andrew Cuomo Announces Run For Governor
Andrew Cuomo released a short video this morning announcing that he will run for Governor of New York. He also released a longer video, 21 min, which I embedded below. In that video he outlines a wide range of his policy positions. The NYTimes also has a great interactive feature called Perspectives on Andrew M. Cuomo, “where former colleagues, mentors and campaign challengers” speak about Cuomo’s “leadership style, accomplishments and temperament.”
I also recently received a… Read More
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State Pols Furlough Workers, Then Party
The State Senate and Assembly both passed another emergency budget bill yesterday which will keep the State running while they continue to not vote on an actual budget (which was due on April 1st). However, this time the bill included a provision that, in an attempt to save money, will furlough about half of the State’s workforce for one day a week.
Of course, the legislators blame the Governor for forcing them into his horrible position, and the Gov blames… Read More
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Full Vote Tally
(24 Votes)
3. Brian X. Foley, D-Long Island (Blue Point)
7. Craig Johnson, D-Long Island (Port Washington) S.4401 sponsor
14. Malcolm Smith, D-NYC (St. Albans)
16. Toby Ann Stavisky, D-NYC (Flushing) S.4401 sponsor
17. Martin Malave Dilan, D-NYC (Bushwick) S.4401 sponsor
18. Velmanette Montgomery, Read More
$6.8 Billion
The picture for the Empire State’s finances keep getting grimmer:
Gov. David Paterson told legislative leaders today that the budget deficit has now inched up to $3.2 billion, pushing the projected gap for 2010-2011 to $6.8 billion.
This will be formalized in the Budget Division’s mid-year update, to be released [today]. The last official quarterly deficit estimate from DOB in July was: $2.1 billion in 2009-10, $4.6 billion in 2010-11. Combined two-year deficit of $6.7 billion.
That means the deficit
