Morning Read, Upstate: Mayoral Control, Rockefeller Drug Snag

David Paterson threatened to veto any measures that increase state spending. He’s mad that legislators have been “blowing off” his

David Paterson threatened to veto any measures that increase state spending.
He’s mad that legislators have been “blowing off” his proposed spending cap, without which “everybody would think we can go back to partying and we can start acting the way we acted before.”
Opponents of same-sex marriage are launching their own ad blitz.
Three suburban state senators object to Andrew Cuomo’s consolidation bill.
District attorneys are mad about a provision passed under the state budget they say will allow judges to seal the criminal records of ex-offenders.
Bill Hammond wrote yesterday that this could allow people with up to three convictions to get jobs as teachers and health aides.

Morning Read, Upstate: Mayoral Control, Rockefeller Drug Snag