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The total debt load for New York State will reach $49.7 billion this year.  That is $3515 for every adult in the State.  Here’s Eliot Spitzer’s thoughts on our state debt:

Democrat Eliot Spitzer reiterated on Tuesday that he wouldn’t sign a budget that puts pools of money at the disposal of Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, R-Brunswick, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, without “a public vetting of where every dollar goes.”

Transparency is great.  It is needed, but that alone is not enough.  Along with transparency we need a large dose of fiscal responsibility.  New York State has added about $4 billion in new debt this past year.  The debt has doubled since 1993.

Fed-up in Buffalo has uncovered a 2675 page report detailing Albany’s pork spending.  2675 PAGES, that is unbelievable!!!  I took a brief look through the report and found $5000 allocated by the Department of State for Artistic Garbage Bins for the West Side.

WEST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE
359 CONNECTICUT STREET
BUFFALO, NY 14213
716-839-8489
ROBERT FRANKE
FUNDS WILL BE USED TO PROVIDE SPIN BINS. SPIN BINS ARE ARTISTIC
GARBAGE BINS WITH FEATURES THAT ENABLE EASY EMPTYING.
$5,000
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
SFY 2006 - 2007 LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVE FORM

Even with transparency, the people of NYS must keep the pressure on all elected officials to end this blatant robbery of our hard earned money!

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From the Messenger Post Newspapers:

The problem with the ever-dysfunctional New York State Legislature is that lifetime politicians like Sen. Dale Volker keep getting elected, again and again and again and again.

The Buffalo-area Republican, whose 59th District was only recently contorted to include Canandaigua and southern Ontario County towns, was first elected to the Senate in 1975. And before that, he spent three years in the Assembly.

That’s given him better than three decades to help clean up the mess in Albany. Instead, he’s helped create the mess — and he’s proud of it.

Volker considers himself one of the founders of our state’s infamous pork barrel system of distributing funds willy nilly to a vast array of unrelated groups and special interests. It’s a tremendous legislative slight-of-hand trick where a cash-poor state can suddenly come up with a couple thousand dollars here, a couple hundred thousand dollars there for incumbent lawmakers to hand out to a host of usually good community causes. Coincidentally, many of these gifts land in the laps of sometimes unsuspecting but grateful organizations just before an election.

And let’s give Volker his due — seniority has its privileges. Thompson Health and other local organizations have gotten a little pork from Volker since he’s brought his game to these parts.

But at some point, the madness has to stop.

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The Buffalo News endorses Spitzer.

For that reason, and with considerable enthusiasm, The Buffalo News endorses Democratic candidate Eliot Spitzer.

They cite the “special interest” support he has received, yet ignore it.  Apparently momentum trumps integrity in their view.  They point to his record as the Sheriff of Wallstreet as further proof of his qualifications.  A record of dubious accomplishments and highly questionable intentions.

It doesn’t matter, the slick Madison Avenue propaganda campaign has stuck with the Buffalo News, as well as an apparent majority of voters!  4 more years, I’m getting tired of that refrain.