NY Dem calls for state budget transparancy

WNBC:

The Senate's Democratic minority on Tuesday threatened to end this year's pork-barrel and other discretionary spending worth hundreds of millions of dollars unless the Republicans who control the chamber detail the spending before a floor vote.

"The non-identified slush fund stops here," said Democratic Sen. Eric Schneiderman of New York City.

Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno said Monday that there was no time to detail the spending in bills Tuesday. Bruno hoped to follow the Democrat-led Assembly in overriding Gov. George Pataki's vetoes of $2.9 billion in spending Tuesday, including tax breaks. Bruno, however, said negotiations would continue with Senate Minority Leader David Paterson, who had called for the disclosure before he directs his members to vote to override Pataki's veto of the "member items" and "memorandums of understanding."

I'm interested to see how this works out.