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Pataki's Magic Bullet Math

By AAN Staff
april 30, 2003  10:53 am
Pataki's Magic Bullet Math
New York is mired in the biggest budget shortfall in its history. Village Voice writer Sydney H. Schanberg says Gov. George Pataki put political gain way ahead of the pain this fiscal hemorrhage will cause, especially for the state's poorest residents. "The scandal-tinged governorship of George Elmer Pataki is now caught in its biggest scandal of all — how he, apparently to ensure his election to a third term last year, kept from the voters the gravity of the state's financial situation and thus worsened the crisis by not taking early emergency measures to deal with it," Schanberg writes.
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