“Let me be very clear, she’s wrong.â€
I can’t resist the tendency to say “Game on!” Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks has picked a media fight with Governor Spitzer and I think she is going to get more than she bargained for. From News 10 NBC:
Brooks says the governor is balancing his budget on “the backs” of local property taxpayers. County executives from across the state want to set the record straight. They say the governor wants to shift state costs onto the local level. The price tag for Monroe County taxpayers is 16 million dollars over the next two years. But Spitzer is firing back directly at Maggie Brooks.
Spitzer said, “Let me be very clear, she’s wrong.†Governor Eliot Spitzer didn’t waste any time pointing the finger back at County Executive Maggie Brooks. He added, “County executives are trying to take the easy way out by blaming somebody else for their inability to make the tough judgments.â€
First of all, is she kidding us? Isn’t that argument about balancing the budget on the backs of local taxpayers a little familiar? Oh yeah, we launched it at her last year. Talk about a boomerang.
There’s more:
Brooks said, “The state is forcing us to choose between raising taxes and sacrificing health and education programs so that we can put our budgets together.â€
Spitzer said, “It is a lack of financial management on her part and I think it is wrong and disingenuous of her to blame the state.â€
Round 1: Spitzer.
Maggie probably thinks that all Democrats respond like Morelle. Anyone got some popcorn?
Funny.
[...] Angel alerted all of you to this nonsense yesterday and yes, Round 1 to Spitzer. It got me [...]
Hoorah Spitz!
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Barclay, Brooks, Bruno and Minarik. Well done Guv!
Since when is she concerned about scarificing EDUCATION programs??????? After the unFAIR plan she really thinks people are dumb enough to believe that she CARES about education????
Is that anything like shifting Medicaid costs onto the school districts? Do you think that taking millions from the schools and compromising the education of our entire county will ENCOURAGE people to move here? People with children move to communities with solid schools which spurs the economy and increases property values. Increased property values means increased revenue for the county and the possibility of attracting new business.
Here’s another suggestion Maggie …. if you want to save money, don’t spend it on trying to overturn the recognition of same-sex marriage, besides, you’ll SAVE money if people can put their spouses on health insurance instead of remaining on Medicare which the county pays for!!!!… and while you’re at it, Maggie, look into the massive amount of revenue that New York is missing out on by NOT allowing same sex couples to marry here. People spend tens of thousands of dollars on weddings and if we allowed them here, people would flock here from other states.
Governor Spitzer introduced a bill to allow consenting adults to marry and thereby spurring the state economy, you want to stunt that by sending the business elsewhere. Now you accuse the Governor of making you chose between raising taxes and taking money from education which you don’t give a crap about…. there are other choices out there. One is to support marriage for same sex adults, the other is to not take money from our schools.
you’re my boy blue! my favorite part is the same sex paragraph. as someone going through the wedding planning process, i can say it is like doing business with the mafia. paycheck in, people show up with hands out.
anyway, anyone catch the simpson’s episode when homer became an internet minister? well, at one point he decides to marry same sex couples. he watches them walk hand in hand, but as we ‘look’ through his eyes each person is really a hundred dollar bill to him. if nothing else governments should look at the issue in that cynical way.
Who says Blue is a boy?
I am trying to reconstruct that post into a letter to Maggie … perhaps I will just send it as is.
oh, yeah, i should have quoted that statement (will ferrell in old school), but punctuation is not my forte.
or maybe it is all a ruse to learn everyone’s secret identity like lex luthor….
good to see someone standing up to Brooks
I think Spitzer is just the guy to do that.
I keep envisioning a killer whale playing with a baby seal for some reason.
When I read Spitzer’s quote about county executives taking the easy way out, I was reminded of what Tony LaFountain said to me in the fall about the unFAIR plan and schools taking the easy way out.
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