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Tue, 29 May 2007 18:12
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - By an almost 2-1 margin New York voters don't think their state legislators deserve a pay raise, a statewide poll reported Tuesday.The poll, from Siena College's Research Institute, came as lawmakers returned from their six-day Memorial Day break to begin a four-week sprint to the end of the annual legislative session. Their agenda includes a pay raise, but Gov. Eliot Spitzer has thus far refused to sign on.Sixty-two percent of those polled said lawmakers shouldn't get a pay hike while 32 percent said they should. Lawmakers haven't had a pay raise since 1999. Spitzer has said he will only go along if lawmakers back his call for an overhaul of the state's campaign finance reform system, something state Senate Republican Majority Leader Joseph Bruno has balked at.The new Siena poll found that 53 percent of New York voters believe Spitzer's proposal for campaign finance reform -- it would dramatically lower donation limits -- would make elections fairer. But 56 percent say the governor's continued fundraising for his own campaign committee, which Bruno has criticized as hypocritical, makes it harder to win an overhaul of the system.Fifty-one percent of voters said they favor public financing of races for statewide offices -- including governor and attorney general -- while 37 percent are opposed. While Spitzer has said he favors public financing, he is not pressing for it yet.Siena's telephone poll of 620 registered voters was conducted May 18-25 and has a sampling error margin of plus or minus 4 percentage points.On other issues facing the Legislature and Spitzer, the Siena poll found voters favor -- 52 percent to 42 percent -- a death penalty for those who kill police officers and are divided on Spitzer's call for legalization of gay marriage, 43 percent in favor and 47 percent opposed.Copyright 2007 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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