Skelos Wins: Special Session Results in No Cuts
By Jimmy Vielkind
ALBANY—No bill will be submitted in the special session today, and Governor David Paterson will travel to Washington tomorrow to lobby for federal aid to bridge New York’s budget deficit.
This means no votes will be taken on Paterson’s original $5.2 billion in cuts and adjustments this year, and it leaves a larger deficit next year still unaddressed.
It also means that Senator and still-Majority Leader Dean Skelos has gotten his wish that cuts – including to school aid – will not come this year. It’s a procedural win for him, if not a long-term political one.
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I don't know if it's fair to
I don't know if it's fair to call Skelos the 'winner' because he effectively got nothing but embarrassed for weeks of lack of action or suggestions on resolving a massive deficit. And if there were any winners and losers, I guess New York was the loser, because if we don't cut the political games and get behind the Governor to figure this whole thing out, the only people that are losing millions by the day are New Yorkers
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