Road named after general, after a spat
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- May
- 13
A state Senate panel today voted to name a stretch of Orange County highway after the American commanding general in Iraq, David Petraeus, but not before a debate about whether anything should be named after someone still alive and a charge that even questioning the honor was a “slap in the face’’ to a distinguished American.
“He’s taken on one of the toughest jobs in the world,’’ Sen. William Larkin, R-New Windsor, said, in explaining why Route 218 should be named for Petraeus, 55, a native of the Orange County community of Cornwall and a 1970 graduate of Cornwall Central High School. He also attended West Point and later served on the faculty there.
But Sen. John Sabini, D-Queens, said he would not support the idea, since “I’m not sure we sould be naming anything after people who are not dead.’’
Larkin called that comment “a slap in the face’’ to the general.
The measure was approved with Sabini and a fellow Democrat, Bill Perkins of Manhattan, abstaining.
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Jay 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 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. 
