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Cara Matthews over at the D&C wrote an editorial about New York City Governor David Paterson and Assembly Democrats refusing to give middle class and lower income citizens a break on rising gas prices.

Here’s a clip on Paterson’s hardline stance against cutting taxes.

Gov. David Paterson said today that he would not give in to pressure from Republicans to give the state a sales tax “holiday” between Memorial Day and Labor Day.

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The governor, speaking at a news conference in New York City, said he was taking responsibility for the issue by doing nothing.

There you have it folks!  The Democrat Governor, Democrat Assembly and some Democrat Senate members have made it very clear that they will NOT cut taxes on gas to save us money. 

Blogger Anthony Morelle makes a good point when Paterson does his typical dance by joking about the issue.  Paterson tries to explain that doing nothing to help burdened taxpayers is good for us, referencing the 1967 movie “Cool Hand Luke.”  Mr. Morelle aptly retorts:

Yeah well in 1967 gas wasn’t $4 a gallon either.  Not everyone has a government car to drive around or a mansion to live in paid for by the taxpayers

Personally, I don’t care what the reasoning is behind cutting gas taxes or if it would be a nominal savings for our working families and older folks who live on fixed incomes.  Every little bit helps when you’re not a wealthy Democrat elected official.  Cutting taxes is good, but the media is helping the Democrats by making you think cutting your taxes is bad.

Remember, the Democrat/Liberal/Progressives actually WANT gas prices to go higher to support their ”alternative fuel sources” political agenda.  ”But, doesn’t that just give more money to the big oil companies?” you might ask yourself?  ABSOLUTELY!  Their wanting to force you and I to live the way they want us to outweighes the negative impact to our family budgets.

And New York City Governor David Paterson, the Democrat Assembly and those Democrat Senators opposing these tax cuts promise that they will do nothing to help us. 

Thanks.

One more reason to not let New York City Democrats take over the entire State of New York.

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Apparently, everything is all hunky dory with the Upstate Economy and we’re doing just fine now.

Gannett’s Joseph Spector wrote several pieces about Governor David Paterson’s intention to eliminate Upstate New York’s Economic Development point-man, Dan Gunderson.  Here’s his original article.

Both Dennis Mullen of the Greater Rochester Enterprise and Sandy Parker of the Rochester Business Alliance have come out against Paterson’s elimination of the position which puts an Upstate focus on economic development issues in New York State.  Upstate elected officials are opposing the move too. [Read more →]

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Now don’t get me wrong here, I love craiglist.org. My friends, family and I all use it to make purchases and sell stuff. I even advertised my garage sale on it and several people commented that’s where they heard about it. I can’t believe I wasted the almost $40 to advertise in the D&C. I had more people reference the craiglist.org posting.

But imagine my surprise when I’m flipping through the job posting section and I come across this ad:

Full Time Political Fundraiser (Rochester)
Reply to: job-640915805@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-04-13, 2:33PM EDT

The New York State Democratic Senate Campaign Committee is looking for full-time fund raisers across the state of New York to work on high-profile State Senate races. Positions are available across the State (including Rochester) for both entry level and experienced fund raisers. Full training and supervision will be provided as necessary. However, an understanding and/or experience of political campaigns is helpful.
Please email resume and brief cover letter/statement explaining your interest in political campaign work. Applicants who do not include this statement will not be considered.

Successful candidates will be contacted for a phone interview. [Read more →]

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There was a very amusing story in the New York Post yesterday about Governor David Paterson blaming the State Police for forcing him to tell everyone about his numerous indiscretions.

Here’s clip from the article.  A quote from Paterson.

“I was hearing these outrageous rumors about myself, and I decided to tell my own story before I had to respond to them.”  

Since the rumors weren’t rumors (they’re actually true) why should we believe that right after Spitzer was laid low by his own scandal, Paterson only came clean because he claims the cops were going to spill the beans?

What Paterson should have said was:

After what happened to my boss, I knew it would be only a matter of time before people found out that I was inappropriately using taxdollars and campaign funds to pay for hotel rooms for me and my mistress.

But it’s way easier to blame it on the man and those mean and nasty profiling cops when you get caught misusing funds.

Do all the drugs you want, I could care less.  But using our tax money and your political contributions illegally is just wrong.

Blaming the men and women in law enforcement just drives a bigger wedge between them and the public which helps no one.  Now we know how the “No Snitching” campaigns get started.  The regular folks are just following the lead of their Democrat elected officials.

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