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Governor: I will veto 6,900 added items to the budget
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP/WKTV) - Governor David Paterson says he is ending negotiations with the Legislature over the 6,900 vetoes he promises to make on every addition and pork-barrel grant in the Legislature's budget passed Monday.
The Democrat said Tuesday that after his vetoes are complete, legislative leaders will have to come to him with solid counter proposals for his policy goals that lawmakers rejected in the budget. Those goals include a local property tax cap, a contingency fund in case $1 billion in Medicaid funding is lost, and an empowerment plan to allow public universities to set their own tuition. Senate Democratic leader John Sampson met briefly with Paterson Tuesday and says he is trying to restart talks with Paterson and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. New York State Senator Joe Griffo said Tuesday that the Democrats have three options moving forward. Griffo says they can take what they put together on Monday and negotiate with the Governor again to come up with a new plan. According to Griffo, democratic leaders could attempt to override the Governor's vetoes. However, that would take a two thirds majority vote in each house. That would mean at least nine of the Senate Republicans would have to support an override to get to the necessary 41 votes to reach a two thirds majority. No Senate Republican has supported any Democratic budget bill yet. The third and final option, Griffo says, would be for the democrats to let the vetoes stand. "It's been a bad process with bad policy, and now it's a bad plan," Griffo said. "That is why I have been against it." |
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