Paterson Vows To Veto New Spending
Frustrated that state leaders are not embracing his proposal for a state spending cap, Gov. David Paterson today threatened to veto any new spending measures in this year’s budget.
“If there is any legislation this year that calls for more spending, while nobody wants to listen to me about my spending cap, I will veto it and they will not override my veto,” Paterson said on John Grambling’s radio show on WOR-AM in New York City.
Paterson also knocked legislative leaders for not going along with his call to have the members of the state Commission on Public Integrity resign after the state Inspector General’s Office found that then-Executive Director Herbert Teitelbaum leaked information to the Spitzer administration while it was under investigation.
“Not one legislative leader, nobody who appoints as well, were willing to even publicly ask their person to resign,” he said, adding that “It tells us that they were more interested in self interest than in the people’s interest.”
All this came before Paterson held his weekly public leaders meeting to discuss energy issues.
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Stop threatening and DO it. Had he followed through with everything he’s threatened for the past two years, he might have happily found himself quasi re-electable regardless of the big spending legislators’ disdain. Due to his pusillanimous approach, he is like Lear on the heath, friendless. As the polls indicate, not the legislature, nor his own Party, nor the taxpayer has any use for him. Who advises him, the ghost of Neville Chamberlain?
Hey Governor…this is too little, too late. You already passed a budget that increased spending by nearly 9% and raised more than $8b IN NEW TAXES AND FEES…a budget that will cost the average home upwards of $1300 a year. Now you want to wield your veto power. Where was that in April when you let Speaker Silver run over you with this budget.
Maybe he was talking to Vito, as in “Paterson Vows to Vito, New Spending.