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Debate on sweet corn yields corny cliches

June
5
A proposal by Sen. Michael Nozzolio, R-Fayette, Seneca County, to make sweet corn the state vegetable sailed through the chamber a few minutes ago by a vote of 46-14, but not before some nay-saying lawmakers made some corny references to the popular summer fare.


    Sen. Martin Connor, D-New York City, said he feared he would be “roasted, stalked or creamed” by voting no, but he did so anyway. He suggested that sweet corn should be the state grain, and maybe cabbage could be the state vegetable.


Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky, D-Queens, publicly thanked Connor for his “corny comments.


    “He’s got us all steamed up and I vote no,” she said.


Lt. Gov. David Paterson, who presides over the Senate, joked that Connor might not be roasted or creamed, but he could be stalked.

Currently, the state does not have an official vegetable. Cash receipts for the production of sweet corn were $70 million in 2005, according to the bill sponsor.


    The bill now goes to the Assembly, where there is an identical bill that is still in committee.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 5th, 2007 at 4:36 pm by Cara Matthews.
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Jay GallagherJay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0.
Cara MatthewsCara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them.

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