We’ll Take The Money, Senators Say
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- February
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Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer in a letter today are asking President Obama to direct unwanted funds from the economic recovery package to New York, if some Republican governors don’t want the money.
In the past week, Govs. Mark Sanford of South Carolina, Rick Perry of Texas, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Haley Barbour of Mississippi and Sarah Palin of Alaska have all discussed plans to refuse economic recovery funds for their state, the senators said.
“New York receives 78 cents from the federal government for every dollar we send to Washington,” wrote the senators. “If other states are willingly refusing federal support in this time of economic crisis, New York should benefit given our ‘donor state’ status.”
“If any governor – Democrat or Republican – leaves stimulus money on the table, then we respectfully request that funds be distributed to New York,” wrote the senators. “We will put the money to good use, investing in education and new infrastructure, such as health care IT and high speed rail.”
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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. 
