He’s as bad as the rest of them… keep secret what they are doing with our money and then deny FOIL requests… Governor! You are letting us all down in a bad way.
Spitzer keeps spending secret
Hundreds of millions of dollars in possible spending by state leaders is being kept secret, with Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s office refusing to release the information.
But the state’s top Freedom of Information Law expert said Spitzer’s office used the wrong grounds to deny a FOIL request.
The money is for capital projects around the state. In announcing a multipronged deal two weeks ago, it was said the Senate’s share alone was $300 million.
Weeks before agreeing to the deal, Spitzer said the Senate’s request of $500 million was mostly “pork” and described it as “dripping fat. It was a horrendous thing to look at.”
But it remains tightly wrapped.
Excerpt— more here…….
