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Janison: Cuomo builds budget leverage

February 1, 2011 10:27 PM By DAN JANISON dan.janison@newsday.com

Gov. Andrew Cuomo walks into his office at

Photo credit: AP | Gov. Andrew Cuomo walks into his office at the Capitol in Albany. (Jan. 31, 2011)

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Some Capitol denizens chuckled over Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's assertion that he was "shocked" to discover a "scam" by which spending escalates annually in the state budget.

But it also became clear Tuesday even to some of those hallway regulars that Cuomo was talking past the players before him - and working to build public leverage for his upcoming fiscal negotiations with the State...

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