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This belongs to you. Take it back...
Fri Jan 12, 2007 at 14:08:21 PM EST
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(Nice Sleuthin' - promoted by lipris)
Thanks to the timesledger.com, (registration required) Boro Dems' pork money bank no match for GOP apparently the Democrats had released their member item reports but on paper, and for whatever reason, those reports weren't scanned in as part of the Community Projects Funds Reports prior to this year. The two spokesmen each blamed the other's party last week for the failure to post online Democratic member items for the three years prior to the 2006 fiscal year even though Republican items for those years were available. That is why the data used for the graph posted earlier this week was missing the 05-06 Democratic member item numbers. That being said, you can look at the graph, double the length of the blue lines (to approximate the 05-06 Dem member items), and it still doesn't change the picture much. Surprising, the majority spokesman doesn't blame a "computer glitch" this time, but the Dems: (my emphases) |
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Senate majority spokesman Mark Hansen said Democrats did not supply their list of member items to the Republicans, who control the Senate Web site.
"The bottom line is they didn't provide the information," he said. Actually, according to this press release from APRIL Senate Democrats Leaders Agree to New Level of Transparency The Senate Democrats also became the first Legislative Conference to make public all of its member items for 2003-04, 2004-05 and 2005-06, following Senate Minority Leader David Paterson's call yesterday for the Senate Majority to make public all member item details.
Back to the Times Ledger, But Kyle Kotary, a spokesman for the Democratic minority leadership, strongly disputed Hansen's account, saying Senate Democrats released their information earlier this year as paper documents.
"It is very disappointing to hear that from the Senate majority when they know not only that we released our '06, '05 and '04, we encouraged them to do the same," Kotary said. "And they did not release (their member items) until after they were sued." |
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