{"id":974,"date":"2009-07-06T19:11:24","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T19:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=974"},"modified":"2009-07-06T19:11:24","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T19:11:24","slug":"the_cost_of_infighting_in_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=974","title":{"rendered":"The Cost Of Infighting In The New York State Legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/07062009\/news\/regionalnews\/senate_stalemate_freezes_plan_to_hire_mo_177903.htm\">New York Post<\/a>&nbsp;has an article about the specific problems the political deadlock in the New York State legislature has caused.&nbsp; Part of the legislation that has been stalled because of the deadlock is the budget package for New York City which&nbsp;includes a half point sales tax increase that was supposed to go into effect on July 1.&nbsp; Mayor Blumberg was counting on the revenue from that tax increase to balance the budget.&nbsp; Each month&#8217;s delay will cost New York City $ 60 million.&nbsp; In an attempt to maintain a balance budget, the Mayor has enacted a hiring freeze and is closely examining all contracts related to spending in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The situation in the New York&nbsp;State Senate&nbsp;has been going on since early June.&nbsp; It&#8217;s time the Senators came to some sort of compromise.&nbsp; What kind of example does it set for the rest of us when our political representatives can&#8217;t get along?&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s New York Post&nbsp;has an article about the specific problems the political deadlock in the New York State legislature has caused.&nbsp; Part of the legislation that has been stalled because of the deadlock is the budget package for New York &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=974\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}