Byline: Dan Lynch
``So, now we'll see what the legislators, all of whom stand for election next fall, do with this slash-and-burn budget of George Pataki's. Even Joe Bruno, the Republican who runs the state Senate, is supposedly wary of this much austerity. There's talk that he and Sheldon Silver, the Democrat who runs the Assembly, are going to be difficult over much of this.
``And, given this state's history, you can probably expect the lords of the Legislature to view this budget proposal pretty much the way Albany lawmakers have always looked at budgets offered by whoever happens to be governor at the moment.
``That is, more or less as a …
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