During this year’s final mayoral debate, Bill Thompson was said by the local commentariat to have made two grievous errors, which were only not said to be fatal in and of themselves because his candidacy was pronounced by the same wise-men to be in a state of extremis, for which [...]
“No new taxes,” was Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson's response to a question regarding the state's budget reduction negotiations.
“We are holding the ground on midyear school cuts. We are trying to mitigate or minimize the cuts to health care. We are looking at things we are trying to cut across the board with respect to agencies,” said Sampson, and “also making a sweep of those authorities that have additional capital and monies in those areas.”
Rick Lazio says:
"[Last year's state] budget should never have been enacted," said Rick Lazio, a Republican candidate for governor in 2010. He said instead of making harder, long-term fixes, Albany is "lurching from special session to special session ... we are barreling toward fiscal collapse. We need adult supervision."
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One of the arguments in support of the creation of New York City Campaign Finance Law was that by providing funds to insurgent candidates and limiting the amounts that could be contributed, City elections would become more competitive.
With the huge number of incumbents getting re-elected since the law came into [...]
