New York Adult Entertainment: Adrift in a state of uncertainty
After all, people back home care mostly about school aid, pork-barrel spending and lower taxes. The gold star any lawmaker gets for being fiscally prudent doesn’t translate into many votes on Election Day.
In past economic downturns, legislators have been able to blame whoever was governor for blunting spending or for bigger raises for public employees. It’s going to be a hard sell to convince people that so widely derided and ignored a governor as Paterson had much of a role in limiting spending.
Does that mean that the Legislature’s fiscal prudence will grow with its increased budget powers?
The easy answer is no, but who could have predicted what has happened at the Capitol since Eliot Spitzer decided to keep a date with a prostitute in Washington, D.C., two years ago?