Budget Reactions
Here’s some of the comments coming in about the 2009-10 budget.
Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos, R-Nassau County: “Governor Paterson and I agree on one thing – this budget doesn’t make sense. The governor’s moment of candor during his news conference today was honest and appropriate because this budget doesn’t make sense for the people of this state, no matter how the Governor tries to spin down the impact of massive tax hikes and runaway spending.”
Andrew Scherer, executive director of Legal Services NYC: “Because state leaders had the courage to ask wealthy New Yorkers to do their part and pitch in during this critical time, they were able to restore funding to civil legal services for thousands of New Yorkers facing foreclosure and eviction, seniors struggling to get their SSI benefits, and New Yorkers fighting to get unemployment, disability, welfare, and other benefits.”
Josh Cohen, NY Library Association president and Director of the Mid- Hudson Library System in Poughkeepsie over cuts to libraries: “Library usage is up by double digit numbers and yet state aid continues to be cut. There appears to be a disconnect somewhere in the state budget process.”
Brian Sampson, executive director of Unshackle Upstate: “We are in the midst of an economic crisis of major proportions. Rather than take progressive steps toward making New York more business-friendly to spur private sector investment and job creation, this budget does the opposite.”
Daniel Sisto, president of the Healthcare Association of New York: “This health care budget plan contains cuts far greater than what our members can absorb without reducing services and laying off staff. We are therefore compelled to issue to the State Legislature a memorandum of opposition to the plan.”
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RE: Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos said the numbers in the budget deal are “absolutely staggering” and said the public “should be outraged.” ....................
Are you kidding me?
These GOPers in the Senate never cut a tax when they were in power. These “Ladies of the night” were all Tax and Spenders like the “Dummycrats” of today’s Senate. The NY GOP also passed on Conservative Social Issues.
The reason the GOP lost the Senate is because they all had
“Albany Tunnel Vision”,
“Albany Tunnel Vision”,
“Albany Tunnel Vision”
These are the same dopes who followed Joe Bruno and his political hacks to the Slaughter House. The same political hacks who never held a real job in their lives, the ones who never went out to the fields around the State to survey the County Chairs and counter their problems.
New York is now like Massachusetts, nothing more then a one party rule, we are now a Banana Republic
Jim Kelly – NY Conservative Campaigns
maybe if Rudy runs we can restore some fiscal integrity
to the state..
A – Rudy is NOT running.
B – If you know Albany (Which in fact has been voted 8 years in a row as The Most Dysfunctional State Government in these Untried States)....It is three men in a room on a budget. Shelly runs government into the ground not the Gov.
On the second point I couldn’t agree with you more..Silver
is not only in a continual conflict of interest because
he gets paid by a PI lawfirm..but the unions own him
lock stock and barrel..no fiscal discipline whatsoever
on the first point however as recently as yesterday
I was on the phone with someone close to Rudy’s people
and there is a 99% chance that he is going to run for governor
RE: Some one in this great state needs to stand up to the “Working Families Party”. Please don’t be fooled by this party’s name, it is nothing but propaganda. The party should be called the “Communist Party”. (Our Budget & Unions)
Answer: It is a FACT that Workers Family Party and ACORN (Obama’s main radical corruption organization) both turn out of 2 Nevins Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11217.
Both work out of the same office building & same address.
They hold hands together. One and the same?
Jim Kelly – NY Conservative Campaigns
It should be noted that Shel Silver managed to slip in a new proposed law that allows attorneys to charge a full 1/3 fee contingency on any “injury” lawsuits instead of the already generous sliding scale. For some reason (guess) he found it important to get this slipped in and passed during our State’s fiscal morass.
RE: What is needed for a Special Election,
The winner of the 20th has to do only one thing to get across the finsh line.
Bring out 6 per cent of the vote in their parties.
6 % is the key.
Jim Kelly – NY Conservative Campaigns
If tedisco looses in this so called republican district
it is a repudiation of the conservative party in new york
If Tedisco loses, he should declare intellectual bankruptcy, put in his papers, and become a broken-down lobbyist like all the rest of the fodder up there.
Looks like Tedisco lost. Not only a repudiation of the Conservative Party but also of the Tedisco operation.
Tedisco has been the worst minority leader in decades… he’s done nothing but lose seats, even solidly republican seats.
Too busy with self-promotion to worry about the conference.
Throw him out!
Yesterdays Brookhaven, Long Island Supervisors race (WFP received $72,000 for field operations) and 20th CD race shows the professional operations of the WFP & Dem’s door to door, phone banks, mailings, etc…
BOTH of these races were in Strong Red Zones, meaning BOTH areas were Republican wins on any given election. Clearly the Democrat Field Operations deserve credit for their showings.
I clearly see how BAD the GOP is “Outdated” by the garner of grass roots support. Calls I received this morning from around the State also support the fact that the NY GOP is “Out of Date” with field operations.
THE LEADERS OF THE GOP NEED TO STOP BEING DEFENSIVE ABOUT THEIR AGE AND ADMIT THERE IS NOW A RESPECTFUL GENARATION GAP-OUT OF TOUCH – FACTOR THEY NEED TO MEND. GROUND TROOPS, INTERNET AND OTHER MEANS OF VOTER TURNOUT ARE N NOW IN PLAY.
In addition the GOP has an “Identity Factor” with the voters.
The GOP Base (Voters) have been turned off in total by the poor showing of a New York State GOP & the local GOP Politicians who have represented these areas for many years.
The “I stand for nothing” State GOP have forgotten about the local taxpayers and the just as importantly the “Social Conservatives” who the GOP abandoned in whole. One by one, these NY GOP voters left the voting booth in year after year of the NY GOP abandonment.
The GOP fall continued in this State with leaders such as “Former” NY Senate Leader Joe Bruno who led the GOP State Senate for years by voting for Large Tax Increases and huge Spending Projects, Gay Rights Bills, Anti-2nd Amendment Bills and Anti Life Bills.
In short, these are the same “GOP Hero’s ” who voted just as Huge Tax and Spend Liberals while they were in power.
The New York GOP and their “Political Hacks” had nothing more then “Albany Tunnel Vision”…
Meaning they saw nothing but their safe “Cushy” safe life styles in Albany……”Albany Tunnel Vision”
Senator Joe Bruno lead his NY GOP Senate to the “Slaughter House”
Joe “Slaughter House” Bruno and the rest of the “Brain Dead” Albany Gang hired the Same “Political Hacks” to run their failing Campaigns year after year…. With lose after lose…..
The end Result? The lose of the NY State Senate.
(The NFL Team Owners would have fired these “Political Hacks” and dumped Bruno over board years and years ago)
New York State in 2010 will now be like a “Banana Republic”….. just as Massachusetts……. which is One Govern rule in whole. Heaven help us all with the New York City Dummycrats in charge of this whole State.
I voted for Tedisco for sure as he is a Conservative.
As for the rest of the NY State GOP?….It is just like sailing on the Titanic with nothing left but the floating deck chairs all around you.
Jim Kelly – NY Conservative Campaigns
Jim is right but for the wrong reasons…when you have conservative support in this state for national office
it means that you are pro life…80% of new yorkers
are not …republicans are out of step with younger
voters, with minority voters and with Independent
voters..until they stop caving in to Mike Long
they will not win
Both of you are correct, in small, different ways, but you cannot find confluence. The Republican Party in NY has lost the all-important independent voter. For one thing, the Party must champion morality in general without selling out to the Religious Right. They also must concentrate loudly and consistently on the things that bring these independents out to the polls – namely taxes, outrageous expansion of school spending with little tangible results, ethics, mandates, competence, out-of-control spending, expansion of government bureaucracy, immigration control, municipal and school union sell-outs, expansion of medicaid fraud, and on and on. We need effective, straight-talking orators, not egomaniacal 90 IQ lightweights and shmucks. This sizeable independent vote is looking for direction and leadership. Our State Republican leaders are, in essence, seen as a group of self-aggrandizing nitwits who give nothing but lip service to important public matters, and are constantly operating on defense. When they do eventually get the ball, they are a touchdown behind and their quarterbacks (Patacki, Bruno, Tedisco, et al.) have no arm and less judgement. Fumbles and interceptions result. The fans are booing, not just because they are behind, but because they have no effective game plan, and they play like they’re content with losing.
got that right ed1…but we do have a problem with the
cross endorsement situation..the insistance by the
conservative party that only pro life candidates be
nominated turns off those independent voters to which
you refer..and that means dead on arrival for the
nominees
Except for late-term abortions, the Republicans would be well-advised to get off this early abortion kick and leave it to the philosophers and theologians to sort out. At the risk of being bombarded with contrary opinion, it seems to me that, as a practical matter, if not for early abortions by persons who do not wish to have more children and cannot and will not care for them or supervise them if they did have them, places like NYC would be a morass of millions of wandering hordes of unwanted, uneducated, unfed youth seeking public assistance, mischief, and mayhem. That said, (and I await the onslaught of abuse,) the Republican Party, and indeed the Conservative Party, should get with reality, and realize that even the large majority of practicing Roman Catholics do not, in practice, follow Rome’s every edict.
well aside from your opinion as to the unwashed…here is
the problem for conservatives…most people of all faiths
and those who are not hard right conservatives simply
do not care about the issue to the point where it
dominates how they will vote…it is not even a second
tier issue..it is a social issue that should be dealt
with in other than a political context.and as the population gets younger and less ideological the issue
looses even more lustre..the more the conservative wing
of the republican party makes it a litmus test..the more
it will be rejected as a litmus test..John McCain could
have won the election had he not been politically
extorted so that it became impossible to put a vice
president on who differed from the president on abortion
how silly…the right insisted we had nothing to worry
about with sarah palin because nothing was going to happen
to McCain..then they turned right around and denied
tom ridge who would have carried pa the opportunity to
be on the ticket because they were exactly afraid of
what would happen if Mccain did not survive his term
Mike The Consultant and ed1 have found common ground. We’re on the way back.
Sorry, Jim—NYS is blue, blue, blue. Republicans who are smart and tough can win – but not by going hard-right. When Hevesi and other indicted criminals get re-elected, it tells you a wide swath of Dem voters vote Dem no matter what. Except…for a Mike Bloomberg, or a handful of other businessman types (Chris Collins). Not Wall Streeters, but Main Streeters. People who run businesses are tough-minded, but they are not ideological. They do what they must do to grow revenue, cut costs, and generate profits. People tying their public policy into God’s will excite the minority that agree, and send the rest of us packing, leaving the left-of-center electorate to win the election.
If we get a Republican senate back and a Republican Governor, we can rejigger state policies. It won’t happen in a week, or in a month. We can thank Client 9 for a second chance.
yes we can!
The Republican Party would be wise to seek out some candidates, state and local, who have some charisma, know how to run a business, and aren’t afraid to challenge old, worn-out ideas. When the Conservative Party was relevant, it gained its foothold by railing about taxes and wasteful rampant spending of taxpayer dollars. Too many of the Republicans we ran and elected proved to be self-serving charlatans who sought personal gain and power at the expense of progress. The Democrats, of course, are worse, if that’s possible, with an almost messianic message of pseudo- nobility on every issue, and persistence in promoting and continuously funding failed programs. It is unfathomable that we have today people who call themselves Assemblypersons and Senators who know no way of making a living except via the public dole and parlaying their minimal skills into personal gain through government and politics. Without the benefit of political backslapping, many would find it difficult to make an honest living in the true world of commerce.