Advice For the Next U.S. Senator
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- December
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Whoever Governor Paterson picks as the next senator, editorial boards from upstate are weighing in with some advice on what the next senator should focus on.
The Poughkeepsie Journal pulled together the list of opinions here.
The Poughkeepsie Journal wrote “The federal government can help by providing more funding for basic infrastructure improvements and by offering more tax incentives and clean-up money to companies willing to convert old, polluting sites into new business ventures.”
The Batavia Daily News wrote, “Mostly, what our next senator needs to do is get out into the state and talk with the people in counties large and small.”
And the Press-Republican in Plattsburgh wrote: “We need to be given the same – or at least proportional – help by the government as the areas geographically below us. Our farmers, our tourism directors, our border workers and our economic-development specialists all need as much concern for their efforts as the more populous downstaters need (and usually get) for theirs. We desperately need a complete broadband network and continued progress toward full air service to fortify our link with the rest of the state.”
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on Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 at 11:23 am by Joseph Spector.
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the Batavia news is off the mark…the next senator
needs to go to washington and back up new yorks
request for dollars…meeting “the people” can wait
till the campaign…filling in for former senator
clinton and functioning effectively is the number
one priority..which is why Kennedy may not be such
a good choice.