Paterson gets qualified praise from Bruno
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Gov. David Paterson today got a vote of confidence – sort of – from the state’s top Republican, Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno.“David is doing great,’’ Bruno said in a radio interview on Talk-1300 in Albany. “He’s hands-on…He’s my best partner.’’
But he said Paterson didn’t handle properly his big decision so far this week: to order state agencies to fill only crucial positions, to cut down on the number of state workers.
“There is a need for belt-tightening,’’ Bruno said. But if he were doing it, “I’d have called in the CSEA . I would have called in PEF,’’ referring to the two largest public-employee unions. He said the union leaders could have helped him make the job reductions as efficient and as painless as possible.
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Where’s Dante? Reading this stuff makes you search for the barf bag. Stone, Silver, Spitzer, Bruno, et al. Interesting that Joe leaves out the UFT from his list. Love, too, his term “painless as possible,” meaning, of course, that he could have organized another self-serving, inefficient charade to get publicity and accomplish nothing. They should all be stuffed into a large leaf bag and left at the curb.