Playing Legislators Against The Governor
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- July
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Ramapo Town Clerk Chris Sampson, who is challenging Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee in a primary this fall, took her to task today for questioning whether Gov. Paterson’s budget cuts would hurt schools and health care.
It’s an interesting take, one reader pointed out, in that now challengers may chide incumbents for not backing Paterson.
Sampson called on Jaffe to retract her criticism, saying “I was shocked that Ellen Jaffee would criticize Governor Paterson’s efforts to tell New Yorkers the truth about the state’s finances. “It demonstrates how out of touch she has become with the people she represents.”
Jaffe told me yesterday that “we need to attend to the realities of the funding that we need to provide for essential services in New York state.”
She has been among state legislators who are warning Paterson not to go back on committments lawmakers have made to schools and other programs.
Earlier in the day, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, R-Nassau County, said that cuts to schools are off the table—as should be layoffs to the state workforce.
“I don’t believe we balance the state budget by throwing people out on the street,” Skelos said.
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“Dean Skelos said that cuts to schools are off the table – as should be layoffs to the state workforce. I don’t believe,” he continued, ”(that we should) balance the state budget by throwing people out on the street.” This guy is just another worthless bag of watered-down buffalo chips. Just the fact that he deliberately chooses to phrase his thoughts this way tells one and all to whom he is indebted and to whom he answers. Another useless, pandering, two-faced birdbrain. The reason these guys sell out is that they each have a grandiose, inflated, money-hungry, self-delusional ego and think that they are giving up millions to “serve” the public, and that, therefore, they are allowed to wheel, deal, and rob the public at will. The fact that they prosper when they leave office is simply because of the contacts they make while IN office and the fact that they can collude and broker big money deals for private interests at the public’s expense ad infinitum.