Completely opposite as to where the politicos are coming from and what they are telling us. When will they ever listen.

Poll: New Yorkers Want to Reset Albany Priorities

Albany, N.Y.) AP — State leaders say a pay raise for legislators is alive and capital punishment for cop killers is dead as issues for the last four weeks of the 2007 legislative session.

But a recent poll shows New Yorkers strongly disagree with those priorities.

By 62 percent to 32 percent, New Yorkers opposed a pay raise for members of the state Legislature that three years ago was deemed the most dysfunctional in the nation.

And 52 percent of those polled by the Siena Research Institute supported reinstating the death penalty for killers of police officers.

New Yorkers also want - by 51 to 37 percent - campaign finance reform. That’s pushed by Democratic Governor Spitzer, but opposed by Senate Majority leader Joe Bruno.

Spitzer had said he would only support a pay raise if lawmakers earn it by accepting campaign finance reform.

The latest in a series of public leaders meetings convened by Spitzer is scheduled for today. They’ll seek agreement on big issues before the end of the session on June 21.