Assemblyman says Cuomo’s using pay-raise ‘extortion’ to pass budget

[Madmallard]

Gov. Cuomo is playing hardball as he tries to ram through his $178.8 billion budget proposal — by threatening to block planned pay raises for legislators if they don’t knuckle under, sources told The Post.

Negotiations over revenue projections for the 2019-’20 fiscal year broke down Saturday, and Albany lawmakers fear that Cuomo won’t sign the budget by an April 1 deadline if he doesn’t get his way, sources said.

That would prevent state senators and assembly members from getting a $10,000-a-year salary increase — to $120,000 annually — that’s tied to on-time adoption of the state’s spending plan.

Assemblyman Gary Pretlow (D-Mount Vernon) on Sunday accused the governor of using the raises as leverage to get his way.

“It’s extortion,” Pretlow told The Post.

https://nypost.com/2019/03/03/assemblyman-says-cuomos-using-pay-raise-extortion-to-pass-budget/

 

[Dr. Evil]

Fake news. Cuomo is above board and an overall swell guy.

 

[byron]

 

[S&W Fan]

It must be fake news. Everybody knows that Rat Faced Fuck would Never resort to anything like that.

 

[Carlos Hathcock]

“It’s extortion,” Pretlow told The Post."

No, it's called just another day at the office for King Asshole.

 

[Apeman]

“To pass a budget, the numbers have to add up and the legislature has to be fiscally responsible,” spokesman Jason Conwall added.

Since when do the assholes in Albany care about fiscal responsibility? None of them deserve that raise. This state has been in a downward spiral for a while now and will only get worse.
The fucktards want to give illegals free health care. How is that a good use of our taxes?

 

[Saltwater60]

He does this yearly with his budget and agenda. He says if you don’t pass what I want I won’t sign the budget. If he doesn’t sign the budget he still gets paid but the others in government don’t. That’s why I call him the dictator.

 

[ProgSpear]

Does anyone know the rules for citizen arrest? It doesn't neccessarily need to follow the Mussolini model...

 

[Steal2B]

 

[GOPerfect]

I don't even care about this extortion... Happens every year.

You guys actually look at the budget? What a fucking joke!

https://www.budget.ny.gov/pubs/archive/fy19/exec/index.html


Over ONE BILLION DOLLARS to the MTA. Close that fucking thing down if it cannot sustain itself.


The State has received a total of $10.7 billion in monetary settlements with banks, insurance companies, and automakers. A total of $7.8 billion has been appropriated from capital projects funds, as summarized in the following table. Out of this money:

Thruway Stabilization Program 1,285,000,000

Broadband Initiative 500,000,000 That is a program to fund the internet for the poor slobs sucking off the tit!




Affordable and Homeless Housing ($640 million) Holy shit, how many fucking homeless people we got in this freaken State?



This entire process is a joke.

 

[holdover]

This mans whole style of leadership (if you can call it that) is based on Machiavellian principles.
Everything he does is based on it.

We mock the shit out of him, but if this guy ever got real power, he would back us into a corner.

 

[Acer-m14]

Does anyone know the rules for citizen arrest? It doesn't neccessarily need to follow the Mussolini model...

in NY i think it has to be a felony crime to do a Citizen Arrest .. and you better make sure it is ..

 

[Acer-m14]

We mock the shit out of him, but if this guy ever got real power, he would back us into a corner.

not nice to pack charcoal and some other stuff into a tight spot .. LOL ..

 

[Jmac]

 

[Deplorable Me]

Fake news. Cuomo is above board and an overall swell guy.

Not

 

[Grimscale]

Am I supposed to be sympathetic that a bunch of do-nothing idiots, who have been driving this State into the ground, aren't receiving a pay raise, when the State is so deeply in a financial hole, and honest hard-working Americans aren't receiving pay raises at all?

Fuck 'em all with a barbed-wire wrapped baseball bat.