Breadcrumbs
Home / NY: Assembly GOP – Election to Replace ClintonNY: Assembly GOP – Election to Replace Clinton
Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 January 2009 02:25 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 13 January 2009 02:25
From Newsday.com:
New York’s Republican Assembly minority wants a special election to fill the expected vacancy in the U.S. Senate instead of allowing Democratic Gov. David Paterson to make a unilateral appointment through a secretive process.
Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco, a Schenectady Republican, acknowledges a special election could take three months and cost as much as $20 million to seat Hillary Rodham Clinton’s successor. He argues that it’s well worth the effort to avoid diminishing democracy.
This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 at 2:25 pm and is filed under State Legislature News.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.