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New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Source: Google News Alert Service, November 26-27, 2009. NEWS: GOVERNOR PATERSON PROPOSES EMERGENCY LEGISLATION IN ADDRESS TO NEW YORKERS Media Newswire (press release) Governor Paterson announced the legislation in a web address directly to New Yorkers, saying the Executive Authority Option “would give me, as Governor , ... See all stories on this topic The terror trials The Villager...
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New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Source: Google News Alert Service, Novemberf 24, 2009. New York Times Aqueduct Racetrack Still Awaits a Decision New York Times Weeks earlier, Governor Paterson inserted the $200 million into his deficit reduction plan. Joseph M. Kelly, a professor of business law at the College of ... See all stories on this topic NIAGARA FALLS: No Thanksgiving holiday for state lawmakers? Niagara Gazette...
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Albany Matters (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Gov. David Paterson sure knows how to bring people together. Senate Democratic Conference Leader and Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos say that they stand together against Paterson’s budget proposal and the notion of giving him the power to cut the budget himself. Both men say they may work on “improving” Paterson’s deficit reduction plan or perhaps...
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Albany Matters (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
“Cut this deficit with me or I will do it myself,” Gov. David Paterson just told legislators. Paterson announced that he is tired of haggling with the legislature over budget cuts and as a result he plans on giving them two choices. He will introduce two bills: his original deficit reduction plan that features cuts to [...]
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. David Paterson wants the Legislature to grant him emergency, one-time power to close a $3.2 billion deficit in the face of inaction by lawmakers. In an Internet address Tuesday, he asked lawmakers to give him the power to make spending cuts and take other actions to provide enough cash for the state to pay its December bills. It's unclear whether the...
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WCBSTV.com: Your Source For New Yor (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Gov. David Paterson proposed emergency legislation to empower him to close a $3.2 billion deficit in the face of inaction by the Legislature. Paterson is seeking the one-time power in a bill to the Legislature. The bill would give him power to make spending cuts and take other actions to provide enough cash for the state to pay its December bills. It's unclear whether the Legislature...
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The Daily Transom (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
This morning, David Paterson sent a bill to the legislature asking them to abdicate their power over the budget and allow him the unfettered authority to slash and burn the state's budget as he sees fit. "This would grant me, as governor, a one-time authority to balance our budget, preserve our credit rating and keep New York afloat," Paterson said in a four-minute speech...
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Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
This morning, Governor Paterson proposed that the state legislature, with which he's been wrangling over how to fix the state's $3.2 billion budget deficit, grant him the power to make the necessary cuts himself. We share Elizabeth Benjamin's befuddlement when she writes, "How or why the Legislature, which hasn't been able to reach a deficit reduction deal with the governor and has been...
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Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Albany, NY – “The Day of Reckoning is here”. Those were the words of Gov. David Paterson as he announced that he was introducing legislation that will give him the one-time authority to make spending cuts without the approval of the legislature. With no deal to cut the budget in sight and the state facing an imminent [...]
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Capitol confidential (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Gov. David Paterson just announced via Webcast that he’ll send his deficit-cutting proposal to the Legislature, but asked that it be given an up-or-down vote. ” … I understand that many legislators are afraid of the political consequences they will face if they approve this proposal,” Paterson said in an 11 a.m. Webcast and satellite broadcast. [...]
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Capitol confidential (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
There may not be a three-way agreement over the DRP, but Gov. David Paterson has amended his original DRP proposal to accommodate legislative leaders’ (particularly the Senate’s) concerns about mid-year school aid cuts and cuts to health care that would endanger federal matches to Medicaid. School Aid: The original DRP proposal included $686 million in cuts to [...]
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Capitol confidential (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
It’s been nearly six months since the Senate coup, and Gov. David Paterson has done something that no other politician has managed: He has brought the Democratic and Republican Senate together. The only problem They are lined up against the governor and his proposal to turn over budget authority to him if they can’t agree [...]
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The Business First of Buffalo (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
New York Gov. David Paterson laid down an ultimatum to state legislators on Tuesday: Balance the state budget — or he will.
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The Daily Politics (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Here's Gov. David Paterson's so-called "executive option proposal" that would endow him (well, him and his budget director) with the unilateral power to make cuts without legislative approval to address the state's budget deficit. In the accompanying memo , the governor argues that the state "faces a genuine threat that it will run out of money, and as a result, will not...
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The Daily Politics (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Gov. David Paterson this morning implored the Legislature yet again to reach a deficit reduction deal and then asked for the power to unilaterally make mid-year cuts if they can't man up and do it themselves. "Cut this deficit with me or I’ll do it myself," the governor said during a Webcast address. "The people of New York have waited too long. I stand willing and...
