| That's just a fact. Check this out from our pal Bouldin:
New York Budget Deficit Grows Due to State Senate Republican Block, Say Democrats
(New York, NY) $6 billion in debt, Senate Republicans are costing the state $1 million a day due to their unwillingness to accept an agreement reached between the state and Buffalo-based Delaware North to operate the Video Lottery Terminal franchise at Aqueduct. Even after instructions by Governor Paterson to cut the state's budget to address the fiscal crisis, Senate Republicans are throwing away money that could be used to repair the crumbling economy and bolster Upstate New York.
State Senate Democrats have launched a daily calculator to track how much the Senate Republicans are costing the state due to their failure of leadership."
It's pretty outrageous that Skelos and the Senate GOP would play politics with this issue given our current economic crisis. With the Governor calling back the legislature next month for a lame duck session to cut the budget even further, you would hope that all parties would be interested in any and all revenue streams available to them.
Apparently, this just isn't true with Dean Skelos. He's seemingly willing to let $1 Million dollars a day just evaporate. I mean, it's not we could really use that money or anything... |
