From: NYLINE -- New York's Libraries Information Network
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Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 10:32 AM
Subject: [NYLINE] deja vu?
Haven't we been here before? Library supporters across New York will be discouraged to learn that Governor Pataki has used his line item veto power to once again veto aid to libraries that the legislature included in its budget.
Last year the legislature overrode the library aid vetoes thanks to hard work by library activists. Once again, we will need that hard work. Be prepared to send faxes or place phone calls to your state legislators and ask them to override these vetoes.
From Friday's press release: "Governor George E. Pataki - saying that the State Budget that was sent to him "spends too much and reforms too little" - today issued 195 vetoes saving taxpayers $1.8 billion by eliminating additional spending and new borrowing from the State Budget." (More detail is available at www.budget.state.ny.us)
The amount of library aid vetoed amounts to a bit over $4.8 million.That's million with an M. Out of a $101.6 billion (with a B) budget. A mere drop in the state budget but an amount that means everything to libraries and library systems, barely surviving on existing state funding.
Fuck you, Pataki. How am I supposed to run my library with these cuts?
