Oh - by the way - there's no budget yet.

Erie County Legislators and Joel Giambra can't come up with a compromise on the extra penny per dollar that we're going to have to for just about everything in Erie County. The whole thing is beyond embarassing. Folks, New York is a banana republic. We need fundamental, earth-shattering governmental reform so very, very badly. The Ukraine has its sh1t together more than New York. So help me, any and all big-ticket items from now on will happily be purchased in Monroe, Genesee, and/or Niagara County. By the way - Eliot Spitzer has announced his bid for the governorship in 2006. Let's see if he's got a strong governmental reform platform (please please please). After 10 years of Pataki & business as usual, it's quite clear he couldn't care less about reform. At all.