From the NY Post:Don’t count pork out of the state budget just yet.
Assembly Democrats are eyeing an existing source of cash to pay for new “member items,” The Post has learned.
It’s a $103 million account that’s supposed to pay for prior-year projects — but that could be tapped for new items if some older projects are scrapped.
Gov. Cuomo and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R-LI) are on record as opposing new pork projects, which traditionally fund athletic fields, senior-citizen centers, and the like in the lawmakers’ home districts.
Cuomo, Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver are negotiating a budget for the fiscal year that begins April 1.
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Stop gridlock in Albany by making Speaker Sheldon Silver extinct - term limits could achieve removing entrenched POLS from office.
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And Dean Skelos as well. He's just as big a problem.
Note the annual screaming headlines about cutting the senior centers this week?
The seniors upset, go to Albany, their representative tells them he will fight for them, the money gets restored, and the process achieves its desired result:
the grateful senior vote for the machine.
Term limit all of them. Silver has too much power. Always did. There has to be term limits or we'll never get rid of these imcompetent politicians.
Note the annual screaming headlines about cutting the senior centers this week?
The seniors upset, go to Albany, their representative tells them he will fight for them, the money gets restored, and the process achieves its desired result:
the grateful senior vote for the machine.
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Wanna know what senior group is not complaining? Members of Toby Stavisky's North Flushing Senior Center! Hmmmm..... I wonder why.
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