Pataki’s Vetoes - August 18, 2006 - The New York Sun

Governor Pataki deserves a cheer from New York taxpayers for a series of vetoes of overly generous pension sweeteners and other measures that would have tilted the field in favor of the state’s already powerful public employee unions. One of the bills would have granted automatic raises to state and local government employees if the state Public Employment Relations Board found their employers were negotiating in bad faith. Others would have enriched retirement benefits for state workers at a cost of more than $100 million. The governor’s vetoes — 70 of them yesterday alone — are a reminder that while it is fashionable in some conservative quarters to deride Mr. Pataki, he is in many cases the only one protecting New York taxpayers from rapacious special interests and a legislature dedicated to slavishly serving them.

a legislature dedicated to slavishly serving them

Finally Pataxme does the right thing, Finally he deserves some credit after 12 years of catering to and bowing down to the bosses that truly run this state, and continue to attempt to drive us further and further into the ground and eventually into bankruptcy.