| Paterson's office says that the one thing that our State Senators agreed on was getting paid, though in the same article GOP spokesman Scott Reif denies it.
The one agreement I can imagine would help the Senate's image with voters short of something that gets things going again would be an agreement to forego pay until the Senate operates again.
However, I'm glad to see - and I was wondering about this - that Reif "added that Senate employees would be paid regardless of the state of negotiations in the Senate stalemate."
Update: Liz Benjamin reports that "the Republicans tell me they didn't collaborate with their Democratic colleagues on that effort, but merely prepared the payroll information on their own accord and sent it along - just to be on the safe side."
A few other bits:
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