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Originally Posted by pointman
The deal may move faster this time. More than ever New York politicians are desperate to raise money so they can continue to spend more and waste more in this economy, something that NY politicians might be the best in the nation at (ok, California is certainly a terrific rival). What makes this even more attractive to the politicians is that it is a way of raising money without raising taxes and it is not a method where they even have to claim they are not raising our taxes when in reality they are!
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The other cynical part of me has long thought that the politicians have repeatedly dragged this process out to encourage those "in the running" for the contract to make continued political campaign contributions to them. Why else was Joe Bruno getting money from Capital Play, among others? It's the same game now, just with different players. Once a winner is selected, the contribution "gravy train" loses many of its riders.
03-11-2010, 01:22 PM
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