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Posted by Russ on Thu Jun 26 15:05:21 2008, in response to Re: Guess What may make a ''Comeback''? Congestion Pricing.., posted by trainsarefun on Thu Jun 26 08:59:25 2008. Last night, a 9-term congressman from Utah was defeated in a GOP primary for being insufficiently conservative, although he had a 96% rating from the ACU, which is far higher than that of many colleagues.Comparing electoral results of representatives with executives is like comparing apples and oranges. With Skelos announcing that Bloomberg has dedicated himself to preserving a GOP majority in the state senate, story here, don't expect Bloomberg to be making too many Democrat friends, and expect Assembly Democrats to treat Paterson's cooperation with Bloomberg's risen from the grave congestion pricing scheme as rather traitorous. 1) Bloomberg is no longer a Republican, so I don't see how that is relevant. 2) Assembly Democrats, like most politicians nationwide over the last three decades, are not going to behave like an angry mob. They will persue their own individual interests. If by some miracle it is the case that congestion pricing passes and is enacted, Governor Paterson's head will end up on the chopping block. If you think that people will forget why the percentage of their money owed to the state is higher than it was before Paterson took over the Governorship, then I think that would be a serious error. If congestion pricing passes, and Patterson runs for governor, if New York is experiencing strong economic growth, and crime remains low, he'll be reelected in a landslide. |
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