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The Mark Simone Show

Larry Mendte Fills In For Mark Simone

The Mark Simone Show

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4.3695 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Sen. George Borello, from Western NY talks with Larry about the weekend storm and the raise that NY assembly members gave themselves.

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0:00.0

Once again, here's Larry Menti.

0:04.4

Well, the do nothing New York Senate finally did something.

0:09.1

They gave themselves a big fat pay raise.

0:13.2

29%.

0:14.4

How'd you late to get?

0:15.6

I'd love that, a 29% pay raise.

0:18.4

Going from $110,000 a year to $142,000 a year, that makes them the highest paid

0:25.4

state senators in the country.

0:28.6

They even had a special session to do this.

0:31.0

That's usually for like emergencies.

0:32.4

You would think they might debate the failed criminal justice system that forces criminals right back

0:38.6

on the street to keep committing crimes until they eventually hurt or kill somebody. Nope,

0:43.4

didn't talk about that. How about fixing the unemployment insurance fund that was paying out

0:48.2

taxpayers' money to people who didn't qualify squandering $11 million in your money.

0:55.8

Surely, surely they talked about that.

0:59.1

Nope, none of that.

1:01.5

They also didn't talk at all about the storm coming in.

1:07.7

We had a big storm coming in.

1:09.5

Maybe they could have had some emergency money to,

1:12.6

you know, to make sure we had more crews out in the roads to make sure that there was some,

1:22.0

that people didn't, not as many people died. Do something. Huge storm coming in. They had to get in and out before the

1:30.6

storm to give themselves a pay raise. Not everybody, of course. This was all Democratic led.

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