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Last Updated on Friday, 19 June 2009 09:10 Written by rslcpol Friday, 19 June 2009 09:10
From TimesUnion.com:
Republican senators took aim at their upstate Democratic counterparts Thursday, contending that what the GOP has termed a “boycott” of the legislative session could result in higher electricity costs for western and northern New York factories.
At the same time, a key upstate Democrat almost joined the Republicans, which would have broken the 11-day-old stalemate.
“If you get paid, you should show up for work. It’s as simple as that,” Republican Leader Dean Skelos said on the Senate floor after noting that, absent any one of the chamber’s 31 Democrats showing up to establish a quorum, the “Power for Jobs” subsidized electricity program could expire at the end of the month.