{"id":1738,"date":"2010-03-12T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/03\/12\/pass-a-budget-plan-save-a-prison\/"},"modified":"2010-03-12T14:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T18:55:00","slug":"pass-a-budget-plan-save-a-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/03\/12\/pass-a-budget-plan-save-a-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Pass a budget plan, save a prison?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the razor-thin Democratic majority in the New York State Senate?<br \/>Well, the Albany Times Union <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/AspStories\/story.asp?storyID=910813&amp;category=STATE\">reports<\/a> today that it might be just the wedge needed to save a North Country prison.<\/p>\n<p>The premise is that as the Senate takes up Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch\u2019s proposal for fixing NY\u2019s deficit-riddled budgets, Democrats in Republican-leaning districts in upstate New York may exact a price for their votes&#8230;and that price could be keeping a prison open.<\/p>\n<p>The idea, says the Times\u2019 Rick Karlin, was floated by Sen. Darrel Aubertine yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While one senator can&#8217;t shift an entire state policy, Aubertine is one of a handful of Democrats &#8212; most from Republican-leaning regions &#8212; who once again find themselves in a pivotal position due to the Senate Democrats&#8217; need to marshal their entire 32-vote majority to pass initiatives that Republicans, with 30 seats, are likely to oppose.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> The paper goes on to point out that the Ogdensburg prison \u2013 with 287 jobs &#8212; on Gov. Paterson\u2019s closure list is in Aubertine\u2019s district. And quotes Aubertine thusly:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There is some real skepticism on my part about borrowing more money,&#8221; Aubertine said of the Ravitch five-year proposal, which would authorize the state to borrow up to $6 billion under certain conditions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s a rally to save the prison, today at 4 on the steps of Ogdensburg City Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the razor-thin Democratic majority in the New York State Senate?Well, the Albany Times Union [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}