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St. Lawrence County Clerk Patty Ritchie is leading the fight to overturn Albany's latest money grab--a plan to force motorists to replace their perfectly good and functional vehicle license plates in April 2010, at a cost of $25 each. The order will cost state taxpayers $250 million, with the money bing used to pay for more of Democrat-led Albany's wasteful spending. (The state faces a $4 billion-and-growing deficit as a result of overspending in the current budget. Ritchie launched an ...

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If you think the no-strings-attached $200 welfare bonus checks were bad, wait until you drill down into Senator Darrel Aubertines latest taxpayer giveaway. Aubertine was the prime sponsor of a new Green Jobs plan that, like Aubertine, is the darling of the controversial Working Families Party, the left-leaning activist group that brought an army of highly paid volunteers by the busload from Brooklyn to the North Country last winter to aid Aubertines election campaign. Payback! WFP-linked ...

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Can Darrel Aubertine get anything right? During a tribute to seven Fort Drum soldiers who gave their lives in Afghanistan, Aubertine added the name of a beloved Oswego octagenarian, leaving many in the Senate chamber scratching their bowed heads. "We are here on the 10th of September--the eve of 9/11--and these resolutions are a series of resolutions recognizing a group of young soldiers who were killed in the past month in the uptick in fighting in Afghanistan," Aubertine said. "And I'd ...

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At a taxpayer-funded luncheon at the NYS Fair in Syracuse, Smith hawks his version of the state Senate's legendary dysfunction, and makes the astonishing claim that Democrat control has produced the most productive Senates that this country and this state has ever seen. Fairgoers may have found the rhetoric tough to swallow along with their egg salad sandwishes, but not so cny's Dave Valesky, who has so bought into the Smith mythology that he backs his NYC-based leader 100% of the time ...

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State Sen. George Maziarz rips Sen. Bill Stachowski and downstate and NYC Senate Democrats for their second lunge for low-cost energy and funds that could be used to fuel Upstate's economy.

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Gov. David Paterson is defending the use of nearly $1 million in federal stimulus money that's supposed to be used to create jobs to instead create signs about creating jobs. Paterson says he has nop choice but to erect the signs at construction projects that are paid for by President Obama's stimulus program. But the feds say the signs are optional -- at least three other states are refusing to use them. And NY is payinkg 10 times more for each sign than other states. Syracuse Ch. 9 reports....

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Buffalo Sen. Antoine Thompson defends hefty pay raises for Democrats' Albany staff, and reveals that his staff got raises too. But fellow democrat Bill Stachowski refuses to talk about raises for his staffers, saying that's a "Malcolm Smith issue," a reference to one of the Senate Democrats' triad of leaders. Albany Democrats are under fire for awarding top staffers with $200000 in raises while their bosses were in a four-week lockdown, refusing to do any Senate business, and at the same ...

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Buffalo's Bill Stachowski says he's "not interested" in explaining why his Senate leaders are handing out hefty bonuses at the same time that tens of thousands of New Yorkers are being thrown out of work by the worsening economy. Stachowski's NY City-based Democrat bosses handed out $200000 in raises to staff—including a whopping 51 percent hike to one advisor—at the same time that Gov. Paterson is warning that the bloated state budget is billions of dollars in the red. The 11 aides, each ...

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Central NY Sen. Dave Valesky, the Senate Democrats' purported "poster boy" for change and reform in Albany, has some tough words for Pedro Espada, the man he voted to make his new leader. Espada, of The Bronx, is under multiple investigations by law enforcement, and Valesky himself sais he is "unethical--at best." But he voted to let Espada become Majority Leader of the Democrat-led Senate. Valesky was hoping you wouldn't see these comments, made at the 2009 Juneteenth celebration in ...

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Pistol-packing Democrat Eric Adams of Brooklyn joins wholeheartedly in the Albany circus as he feigns outrage at Republicans over the continued dispute over teh State Senate's leadership. The Democrat-led stalemate has crippled Albany government, but Democrats are hoping to raise public ire to support their efforts to maintain an iron grip on government, with its rewards of patronage jobs, perks and higher pay for majority party senators. In office less than six months, Adams last year stood ...

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