Sally Goldenburg of the New York Post writes - “Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo sided with Gov. Paterson in his battle with state lawmakers yesterday, advising the governor to yank the Legislature’s prized pork-barrel spending as punishment for rejecting his spending plan.

In one of his strongest condemnations of the Legislature since their budget battle with the governor began, Attorney General Cuomo advised Paterson to slash pork-barrel spending, commonly known as member items, if negotiations don’t work.

“First step, negotiation and see if you can come to mutual terms. If not, Step Two is they pass their budget — you line-item veto any of the [additional spending proposals], you line-item veto the member items, because option three is shutdown and you can’t go to Option Three, in my opinion,” Cuomo said.”

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