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Uncle Joe's pork

by: Exile on Ericsson St.

Fri Jan 23, 2009 at 14:11:59 PM EST


When Spitzer got nabbed last year, there was a lot of hue and cry from Republicans about how Democrats who got campaign donations from Spitzer needed to give the money back.  What's interesting is that Bruno more or less personally distributed millions of dollars in pork to politically vulnerable and/or powerful Republicans.  Here's a list of the top ten pork getters last year (from NYPIRG via Liz):

1) Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, $4.211 million (about $1 million more than Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver plans to personally allocate in this fiscal year).

2) Deputy Majority Leader Dean Skelos, $3.740 million (from Long Island, leader-in-waiting).

3) Sen. Tom Libous, $3.497 million (a Binghamton-area senator once considered a contender for Bruno's leadership post).

4) Sen. Owen Johnson, $3.276 million (chairs the Finance Committee).

5) Sen. Joe Robach, $2.550 million (a Rochester-area Democrat-turned-Republican who is one of the Senate minority's top targets this fall).

6) Sen. Thomas Morahan, $2.464 million (a Hudson Valley lawmaker who is the Senate's liaison to the executive branch).

7) Sen. Dale Volker, $2.446 million (a Western NY veteran lawmaker who recently said he thought someone connected to the State Police was spying on him during the Spitzer administration).

8) Sen. Serphin Maltese, $2.441 million (of Queens, the Democrats' top priority to oust).

9) Sen. Frank Padavan, $2.438 million (also from Queens, also in the crosshairs).

10) Sen. Cathy Young, $2.322 million (Western NY senator elected in a 2005 special election to fill the seat of the late Sen. Patricia McGee).

Obviously, there's no way to give pork back, but it will be interesting to see if Young, Robach, et al. start feeling the heat now that their benefactor is likely slammer-bound.  

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Spitzer used his own money....Bruno used our taxes!!

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