This is good news! I have been asking for the feds to step in for a long time.
Report: U.S. attorney eyeing pork-barrel spending - Newsday.com
LBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia told his investigators to take a look at newly available computerized data from the state Legislature on pork-barrel spending handed out by lawmakers, […]

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I am in complete agreement with this platform..
NY State Conservative’s
Conservatives Support Civil Confinement, Increasing Charter Schools, While Opposing Legislative Pay Increase
Ft. Hamilton Station, NY - “Civil confinement is an absolute necessity for the protection of our children” said State Conservative Chairman Michael R. Long and the members of the Legislature have a moral obligation […]

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I am dead set against a payraise for any and all Albany legislators they do not deserve it, if anything a cut in pay is due.
Point is that even if every legislator from WNY and Upstate voted against it, NYCity’s vote will carry the day and it will happen. One, if not the biggest problems […]

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From everything I have read so far they did not go far enough.
Empire Information Services: News Story
News from New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF)
For more information: Darcy Wells 518-785-1900 Ext. 277, dwells@pef.org
PEF To Assembly Health Committee; Berger Commission - Misleading, Damaging and Just Wrong!
ALBANY, NY — (12/11/2006; 0901)(EIS) — Leaders of the New York […]

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