ALBANY—David Paterson doesn’t take the legislative inaction on his proposed deficit reduction package personally.
“With the legislators I honestly don’t think it’s personal,” Paterson told John Gambling this morning on WOR. “I think that they are just too afraid or just too chagrined to address the problems that we need to be addressing Read More
ALBANY—With cover, Democrats in the State Senate have introduced their own deficit reduction plan.
It comes after several hearings the conference held this week, and includes $500 million from the refinancing of tobacco bonds. It also includes other sweeps and avoids the most painful cuts to education and Medicaid reimbursements.
“Our goal Read More
ALBANY—As had been predicted, David Paterson’s campaign released two new ads to try and boost his still sagging poll numbers.
Each television spot–produced by Murphy Putnam Media, the same firm that produced the positive ads for Representatives Scott Murphy and Bill Owens–acknowledges the mis-steps that Paterson has made, and portrays him as Read More
ALBANY—The hospital lobby is using three State Senate Democrats as a shield in their fight against health care cuts David Paterson proposed in a $3 billion deficit reduction plan.
Ken Raske, CEO of the Greater New York Hospital Association, sent this memo to hospital heads and lobbyists, naming Carl Kruger, John Sampson Read More
ALBANY—Some hospital executives this morning made their case to Richard Ravitch about how they think money could be saved in a coming package that will bridge a mid-year deficit.
"The point was to say, in health, which is one of the big areas, how are we going to approach it with Washington so Read More
POUGHKEEPSIE—Attorney General Andrew Cuomo will be speaking tomorrow to the annual meeting of the Greater New York Hospital Association, the organization just announced. It’s the same association that, along with SEIU 1199, ran scathing ads against David Paterson earlier this year.
Cuomo has used his position as attorney general to highlight issues that resonate Read More
POUGHKEEPSIE—Attorney General Andrew Cuomo will be speaking tomorrow to the annual meeting of the Greater New York Hospital Association, the organization just announced. It's the same association that, along with SEIU 1199, ran scathing ads against David Paterson earlier this year.
Cuomo has used his position as attorney general to highlight issues that Read More
ALBANY—David Paterson attributed his dismal standing in a poll released today to an ad blitz attacking his plan for health care funding, as well as voters perception of the process of selecting Kirsten Gillibrand as senator.
Here’s a video of most of what he said during a scrum after addressing students and administrators from Read More
ALBANY—David Paterson attributed his dismal standing in a poll released today to an ad blitz attacking his plan for health care funding, as well as voters perception of the process of selecting Kirsten Gillibrand as senator.
Here's a video of most of what he said during a scrum after addressing students and administrators Read More
It's Day Two of a passive-aggressive blitz by the Paterson administration to make their case that funding should be shifted from hospitals—on whose behalf there has been intense lobbying in the form of extensive, anti-Paterson advertising—to preventive care and health clinics.
David Paterson returned Friday morning to one such institution—the William F. Ryan Clinic—in Read More
