Say No to Proposition Number One

This year's ballot in New York will have two Propositions. Both, in my opinion, should be voted down. Proposition Number One is a power grab by the legislature and it will only make the New York budgeting process worse. It's not that we don't need reform in how New York drafts and writes its budget, but Proposition Number One is not the way to do it.

If you are looking for interesting reads on Proposition Number One,

Stand Tall New York has:
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and then some entries on how ill-advised this Proposition Number One is.

George Pataki, Eliot Spitzer, Hugh Carey, Ed Koch, Pat Manning and many others are afraid of what would happen if Sen. Joseph Bruno and Ass. Sheldon Silver were to increase their power in the State budgetary process. You should too.

***UPDATE***
Blogger journalist, Wordsmithie has also been covering NY's Proposition Number One (or Prop 1), and he notes that Pat Manning is the only person dubbing the proposed amendment as the Runnaway Spending Amendment. Well, it is. So we should say "No" to Proposition Number One (aka Runaway Spending Amendement).