Hope you enjoy your holiday weekend while the Albany Coup
keeps your state senators stuck in Albany -- hardly a vacation destination -- under orders by Governor Paterson. The respective party leaders are
brassing it out, refusing to be pushed into a settlement, and Ruben Diaz Sr. says he's going to spend time with his church in the Bronx and
invites Paterson to send the troopers after him. AP estimates that
the Coup has cost state taxpayers $94,400 so far -- and that's not counting fallout from the
unpassed budgetary legislation that
has Yonkers "running on fumes," according to Mayor Phil Amicone, and other municipalities scrambling. If you're of a libertarian turn of mind, you might applaud this as
starving the beast, but the people who have to deliver services in the affected areas aren't seeing the benefit.
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