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Paterson Gives Up 10% of Salary to Save His '10 Hopes
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Billy Parker
Published Mar 5, 2009
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Let's hope Governor Paterson isn't as whimsical with our state budget as he is with his own. Less than twenty-four hours after being presented with the idea to take a pay cut while at a town hall meeting in Niagara Falls, the governor announced that he will in fact give up ten percent of his salary. While in Buffalo today, he said, “I will symbolically make the gesture for the state. I will take that sacrifice.” But while the governor might be desperate to get in the good graces of state voters, don't expect to him to do it at the expense of his staff members, who recently drew attention to him for the raises he gave them amidst the budget crisis. As for them, Paterson said, “I don’t want anyone else to do anything but do their jobs and make sure that we get rid of this budget deficit."
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