Two thoughts rattled through my brain this morning, with the news reports  — the County loses the FAIR lawsuit, have a long shot at the Court of Appeals, but there is Majority Leader Dan Quattro already aiming his loaded water gun — at of course the evil culprits — the CITY. Yes lets be a good Republican county and go back on yet another agreement! I am referring to the fact that the County by their own choice and now by operation of law is responsible for DSS. So now the county says, wait we can;t get the schools, we will “get” the next best thing, the city— Let’s charge the city for Safety Net. A potential 15 million. Instead of foisting their problems on others, why don’t they sit down with the Democrats and come up with a freaking plan already, one that doesn’ t steal from another municipality and one that isn’t lame. hey sit down with Bob Duffy maybe — he and his administration actually KNOW what they are doing!!!

 And I swear, I hope whoever says A) “this is all politics by the Democrats” or B) “Why don’ t the Democrats come up with anything” gets struck by lightening or a banana cream pie or something -because this is Republican politics at its worse and the Democrats have a plan that was rejected because Democrats thought of it.

The other thought is — MCC are they kidding?????

Back from my vacation, and from the after vacation pile on my desk, mostly rested and ready to blog again…Someone sent me a copy of Appellate Division decision on the FAIR Plan — the School Districts vs. Monroe County. A 5 to 0 decision that the County was wrong…hard to appeal that to the Court of Appeals. When I read that decision two things struck me. One were the words the Court used to say that what the County tried to do was “shift a portion of its Medicaid obligation to the sharing municipalities and the school districts” something the Democrats argued against all along. And now something the Courts said they cannot do.  A court comprised of Appellate Division Judges not from Monroe County, removed from the fray. The other thing that struck me was this, because of the County Republican’s short sightedness and arrogance at enacting the Intercept, in light of legitimate concerns raised they now are in a huge bind. The need to come up with 29 million dollars AND they are stuck with the intercept forever, AND with keeping every sharing partner whole. Imagine that, the Democratic Caucus was right. Imagine that, the taxpayers are screwed once again by this Republican Administration and Republican controlled Legislature.