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NY: GOP Senator Bruno Sees Split on Tax-Revenue Estimates
Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 February 2008 11:44 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 26 February 2008 11:44
ALBANY — There’s likely to be a significant gap between what legislative leaders and Gov. Eliot Spitzer think the state has to spend next year, possibly signaling a bruising budget battle ahead, lawmakers indicated Monday.
“We’re going to be apart,” Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno told a group of local-government officials meeting near the Capitol, two days before the Legislature and Spitzer are slated to try to agree on tax-revenue estimates for next year.
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NY: Online Pedophile Bill Called ‘No-Brainer’
Last Updated on Friday, 22 February 2008 02:07 Written by rslcpol Friday, 22 February 2008 12:22
Maybe finally state and local Democrats are getting with the get tough on sex offenders program (they’ve opposed it here, here, here, and here) that’s sweeping Republican controlled legislative chambers and offices across the country. This is first evidence they have – we’ll reserve judgment until Governor Spitzer signs a credible bill into law.
CARMEL-Putnam County District Attorney Adam Levy believes legislation banning pedophiles from online social networks is a “no-brainer.”
Levy joined his colleagues from Westchester and Rockland Counties in Valhalla last week when State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo came to town to talk about e-STOP-the Electronic Security and Targeting of Online Predators Act-that would make it a crime for child predators to use sites frequented by the young.
Plans call for New York to share information with service providers who would report violators.
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NY: Top State Counsel Now In Crosshairs Of ‘Troopergate’ Investigation
Last Updated on Monday, 11 February 2008 04:36 Written by rslcpol Monday, 11 February 2008 11:45
Troopergate is the energizer bunny of Albany scandals. Check out the Google hits on Troopergate – just ignore the ones from that little dust up back in the day from Arkansas and the former AG out there. Say, what is it about former Democrat AGs and scandals called Trooopergate?
Troopergate probers are taking aim again in Albany, with the cross hairs now trained on Gov. Spitzer’s top state counsel.David Nocenti, who joined Spitzer in his first days as state attorney general in the 1990s, was grilled for several hours last week by the state Commission on Public Integrity, according to a source familiar with its investigation. The probe centers on the Spitzer administration’s failed effort to discredit the governor’s top political enemy – Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno.
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NY: Dem Gov’s Office Turns Over ‘Damaging’ Documents
Last Updated on Monday, 11 February 2008 04:46 Written by rslcpol Monday, 11 February 2008 11:43
How does Eliot Spitzer get re-elected in 2010? Is he giving Republicans the chance they need to capture the big office in Albany? Is he giving Andrew Cuomo the opening he needs? Seriously, if Cuomo’s going to run he needs to get his own political house in order: gotta get that Hsu (see more here, here, and here) mess behind him, and find out just what he knew and when he knew it about the money DAGA got from Dickie Scruggs.
February 11, 2008 — Gov. Spitzer‘s of fice has turned over “damaging” documents to the Albany County District Attorney’s Office revealing that the Dirty Tricks plot against his chief GOP opponent began much earlier than suspected, The Post has learned.Law-enforcement sources said Dirty Tricks Scandal material subpoenaed weeks ago by DA David Soares from Spitzer’s office suggests that the effort to damage or destroy the career of state Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno (R-Rensselaer) began as early as January 2007, the month Spitzer took office.
“The documents, which include e-mails, are damaging and embarrassing, and the press will have a field day if the material ever becomes public,” said a source close to Spitzer.
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NY: Senate Leader Wants $1 Billion in Owed Taxes
Last Updated on Wednesday, 30 January 2008 03:22 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 30 January 2008 12:04
ALBANY — Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno on Tuesday called for the state to prosecute American Indian retailers and others for failing to pay some $1 billion in sales and excise taxes.Speaking at the annual meeting of the New York Association of Counties, and later to reporters, Bruno said Gov. Eliot Spitzer must enforce state law and collect the taxes to help the estimated $4.4 billion budget gap.
“How do you collect taxes? If people don’t pay taxes they end up getting prosecuted,” Bruno said. “I mean if you don’t pay your taxes, if your company doesn’t pay … what’ll happen?”
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NY: Demoted Scandal Aide Gets Promoted
Last Updated on Monday, 28 January 2008 02:05 Written by rslcpol Monday, 28 January 2008 11:56
When does buyers remorse for New York State voters kick in for Eliot Spitzer? He keeps telling everybody to get a life, but he insists on taking care of his own. Some guys about to testify against the Spitzer administration potentially and he gets a promotion? It’s like saying “Nothing bad happened here, right? That’s how you remember it, right?”
January 28, 2008 — TOP aides to Gov. Spitzer have secretly promoted a central figure in the Dirty Tricks Scandal who was demoted last summer after his involvement was revealed, The Post has learned.The unannounced promotion of William Howard, Spitzer’s former homeland-security advisor and liaison to the State Police, occurred this month, although Howard is expected to testify in connection with several scandal-related investigations.
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NY: GOP Senate Majority Leader Bruno Responds to Budget
Last Updated on Wednesday, 23 January 2008 12:12 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 23 January 2008 12:12
Governor Spitzer outlined his proposed $124 billion budget for the upcoming year on Tuesday, and now Senate Republicans are responding.
Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno said the governor forgot to think about the taxpayers’ best interest.
The people in this state are overtaxed, overburdened. We are less competitive with other states. I think where we are, depending on what you put in the equation, 50 or 79 percent higher in taxes per household than the national average. That’s unacceptable.”
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NY: AG Has Chance To ‘Make Political Splash’
Last Updated on Monday, 14 January 2008 11:16 Written by rslcpol Monday, 14 January 2008 11:16
After a year in which he investigated white-collar and financial crimes, state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has a chance to make a political splash with the Martin Tankleff investigation, several political observers said yesterday.
Assigned by Gov. Eliot Spitzer to investigate the case of the former Belle Terre man who spent half his life in prison for the slaying of his parents before being released last month, Cuomo will have an opportunity to create an image of himself as tough on crime.
“If he finds that there are other people responsible, then it’s a tremendous public safety achievement,” said Assemb. Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria).
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NY: Remember Doc Hollywood?
Last Updated on Tuesday, 8 January 2008 11:28 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 8 January 2008 10:44
Governor Spitzer wants to pay student loans of new doctors who agree to practice in under served and rural areas….
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. Eliot Spitzer wants to pay off the student loans of physicians who agree to serve rural and urban areas facing shortages of doctors, an administration official said Tuesday.
The program referred to internally as a Peace Corps for doctors is expected to be part of Spitzer’s State of the State speech on Wednesday, the second of his administration.
The measure, if approved and funded by the Legislature, is aimed at relieving a shortage of medical care in the northern part of the state as well as inner cities, the official said on the condition of anonymity because the speech isn’t yet finished.
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NY: Dem Gov. Popularity In Free Fall
Last Updated on Tuesday, 11 December 2007 02:31 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 11 December 2007 10:27
This is what’s called getting what’s coming. New York Democrats should be very concerned headed into the 2008 election – a radioactive top of the ticket, regardless of whether or not he’s on the ballot, will make life tougher for New York Democrats trying to get control of the state senate. Republican’s have had at least an election to get used separating themselves from the environment higher up on the ticket – can Democrats move that fast?
Siena College’s latest poll on Eliot Spitzer’s standing shows the governor continues to be in free fall. If it’s possible, his unpopularity is actually accelerating, a fall from grace among New York voters nothing short of dazzling when you consider he’s been in office for only 11 months.When Spitzer took office on New Year’s Day, 75 percent of the electorate had a favorable opinion of him and only 10 percent did not. As of Monday that was down to 36 percent favorable, Siena’s Research Institute found, with 51 percent unfavorable.
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