Caption this pic.. Just who is the boss, Silver or Spitzer ?
Spitzer’s Goals May Test Uneasy Alliance With Speaker
ALBANY, Sept. 15 — From the moment he announced that he was running for governor, Eliot Spitzer has described New York’s government as being in “crisis,†and he made it clear he believes that part of the problem lies with the State Legislature.
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He complained that lawmakers deferred most of the difficult issues confronting the state in their most recent budgets. He helped defeat a constitutional amendment that would have given lawmakers more budgetary powers. And he has vowed to end one of the Legislature’s most closely guarded prerogatives: its practice of drawing district lines to protect incumbents.
In taking these positions, Mr. Spitzer, who is the Democratic attorney general, has found himself on a collision course with the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, who has been the most powerful Democrat in state government for nearly 12 years. One of the more intriguing parlor games in a Capitol with no shortage of intrigue has been trying to guess whether a Governor Spitzer would try to replace Mr. Silver to realize his vision of a reformed Albany.
If Spitzer wins, this will be a showdown and we will all end up paying for it.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackback“Wait. Did you just say ‘new revenue stream’ ?
Now I’m interested.”
Will New York need to have one evil (Spitzer) eliminate the other, greater evil (Silver)? I personally don’t think that even if we get rid of Silver but have Spitzer, things will NOT improve. I’ll just continue to live in Baltimore, earning more money and paying fewer taxes than I would be in my home city of Buffalo (as well as 30,000+ other well educated people in the last decade).
If there is real improvement, I would love to come back, just like so many others who have stated the desire to do so.
Just keep watching from where you are David, we may just have to hit absolute botton, lower than we are now before we come back.
People are watching from all over the country as they would love to come home, including businesses that want to come here but won’t until they see some progress.
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