John DeFrancisco
Connections
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I feel as much remorse now as you did when you sent all your discretionary funds to your districts.
Other than costing businesses to lose countless hours and waste millions of dollars, this mandate has done nothing to help employees or create new jobs ... We have to eliminate mandates like this to make New York more competitive so businesses can focus on growing and creating jobs rather than keeping track of more paper and paying fines if they don't.
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Newsday's coverage
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Editorial: Partisanship hurts some schools
pork pie of $20 million was set aside in the budget passed earlier this year.Responding to the outrage of the Democrats, Sen. John DeFrancisco (R-Syracuse), who chairs the Senate finance committee, said, "I feel as much remorse now as when you delivered all Read more »
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DeFrancisco Supports JCOPE
ICYMI: Sen. John DeFrancisco expressed support during a CapTon interview last night for JCOPE, even though the embattled Albany watchdog JCOPE has been accused of leaking information about a potential investigation into his colleague, Sen. Tom Libous. Th 5/31/12 from Capital Tonight Read more »
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Senate Passes "New Jobs-NY" Job Creation Plan
The overall NEW JOBS- NY job creation plan also includes fiscal reforms to improve New York’s business climate. The plan includes a state spending cap; a super-majority vote provision to make any future tax increases more difficult; and new regulatory re from New York Senate Read more »
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Party 'Bullets': Extra school aid goes only where politics decides
“What did we do wrong?” That plaintive question comes from Michael Drahos, superintendent of the Morrisville-Eaton Central School District. He was wondering why his district has come up empty so far in the so-called “bullet” aid being handed out to schoo from Syracuse.com Read more »
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Two Syracuse-area Republicans weigh in on mayor's nomination to run New York Democrats
Syracuse -- Two local Republicans cast very different views Wednesday about Gov. Andrew Cuomo's selection of Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner as a new co-chair the state's Democratic Committee. State Sen. John DeFrancisco, a 20-year veteran of Albany and c from Syracuse.com Read more »
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NEW YORK SENATE PASSES LEGISLATION TO ASSIST SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED BUSINESSES IN SECURING GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS
State Senator John A. DeFrancisco announced that the New York Senate passed legislation today, May 15, 2012, which would give state agencies the authority to determine whether a letter of credit is needed for a state contract, and would limit the amount from New York Senate Read more »
