This little article raises a lot of questions in my mind, I’m gonna do some digging on this.
Tonawanda News THURSDAY County passes cost-of-living wages
THURSDAY County passes cost-of-living wages
By Dan Miner
The Tonawanda News
A 9 to 5 vote on Thursday marked approval by the Erie County Legislature of cost-of-living pay raises for about 15 staff employees.
Supporters […]

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Campaign cash… this is not proper use of campaign cash. This guy has no ethical standards.
Hevesi uses $750,000 in campaign cash to pay for defense lawyers - Newsday.com
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ State Comptroller Alan Hevesi has used at least $750,000 from his campaign fund to pay defense lawyers as he faces investigations into his use […]

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and of course from the Republican side of the aisle. I wouldn’t want to be accused of being baised to one side or the other..
It’s the corrupt nature of the leadership in Albany that is destroying this state. They can throw money around to buy votes but when it comes to actually doing something to […]

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and it’s all legal……..sickening.
SHEL GAME: SILVER LINING PAL’S CHARITY By MICHAEL GORMLEY, AP - New York Post Online Edition: Seven
December 3, 2006 — ALBANY - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver directed $1 million in public money to a charity and its affiliates whose chief executive is an old friend and the husband of Silver’s chief of […]

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Is it any wonder why we are in such a sad state of affairs and why Silver always gets re-elected? My God, talk about corruption, use and abuse of Taxpayers money for his own self serving purposes… This man must be taken out as leader of the assembly.
So my question for all the Democrats […]

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We have everything we need except politicians willing to do the right thing and that is to cut the size, scope and infringements of government on the people of Erie County and WNY.
We need the right leadership and the right legislature members to start working in defense of the people.
Buffalo News - New York has […]

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Some interesting points made here. How will the leadership handle this stuff? They will most likely wheel and deal with Spitzer and we end up on the short end of the stick. Let’s hope that Spitzer and public pressure will force otherwise.
A good beginning with much, much more to be done for sure.
The Citizen, Auburn […]

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WIVB TV4 Buffalo,Niagara Falls, NY - News & Weather - Video on Demand - What About Tearing Out the Grand Island Tolls?
(Grand Island, NY, December 5, 2006) - - Should residents have to pay a price of admission just to live on Grand Island? A new petition drive seeks to follow the example of the […]

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INSIGHT
“Here is the Golden Rule of sound citizenship, the first and greatest lesson in the study of politics: You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State to do things FOR you carries with it the equivalent power to […]

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Let’s get as many signatures as humanly possible to send a message to Albany.
Anti GI Toll Effort Rolls Along
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Buffalo, NY (WBEN) - The petition to remove tolls from Grand […]

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