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Wednesday, August 19

Murphy checks in

U.S. Rep. Scott Murphy (D-Glens Falls) called me today, to let me know that his summer "vacation" has been well spent, with a lengthy series of "Congress on your corner" meetings with constituents. We had a bad connection, as Murphy was traveling around northern Saratoga County, but here is a few of his comments (we spoke mostly about health care):

How have the "Congress on your corners" been going?
"We’ve been having great events. People want to get out and talk about issues. It's enlightening for me to come out and talk to me about issues, it's good to hear peoples’ thoughts on things.
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"The president is backpedaling a little on healthcare, have you change your views?"
"I thought we need more competition, it's going to be good for keeping prices down, I thought a public option could be helpful to doing that. I think the main thing that I spend most of my time talking about, is how do we increase efficiency to keep costs under control.
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"How can we change the current system?"
"That’s where I’m really talking to people, to find out what’s not working, what do you see out there. What do you see that we can fix. People are more thoughtful, they want to know how they’re going to be impacted. I can assure everyone that the goal of reforming the system is to make everyone’s health care better."

1 Comments:

Blogger Trapped in History said...

speaking of checking in. what's been going on with the rec center? the construction has seemed to have stopped. and it's funny, we have all these comments demonizing and marginalizing the lower end workers in this city, but none of these knuckleheads has questioned the rec center. slash the $20,000 flower budget, one proclaimed. now correct me if i'm wrong, but off the top of my head, i think the bond payment for the rec center is $400,000 per year. i'm not sure if that is what it is for the full 25 years, but if it is, that's $10 million. now according to new york state municipal finance expert, we could've diced the bond or re wrote it for a more worth while project. so $400,000 plus the $250,000 ivens and johnson had in this years budget for fixture and funishings, represents about a 4% of the tax increase for next year. you really didn't have to be maynard keynes to see the mess coming. so to help take up the finacial slack of this poor decision, the attack dogs are after the small potatoes.

August 20, 2009 at 5:59 PM 

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