The Robert Harding Show  

Conference call with Spitzer, Gunderson

Marty Mack- recent report card

Discuss it a bit

Hearing a lot from the counties

Counties “f” grade

Gov. speak, Dan Gunderson (ESDC- Upstate)

Governor, Gunderson

Gov. Spitzer

First response: BCNYS report card similar to yours – we know there are problems

Very open to the reality, don’t shy away from “bad facts”

Conclusion

Major issue

Nature of the problem

“F” grade allotted to many counties

Suggests abject failure

Can’t dig your way out of it

That’s not right either… not here to quibble with methodology

F deeper than I would’ve imposed

Either you exceed or underperform

0-5, get an “F”, The way they did the analysis was a little rigid

enormity of the problem overstated, any articulation

reflective of a decade where things weren’t going well

fundamentally different

20% cut in Worker’s Comp ($1 billion)

Real property ($1.3 billion)

$50 (b)million cut in business taxes?

Thousands of jobs retained ESDC

Private sector job growth accelerating (23,000 p. sector employment jobs, 2:1 in past years)

Continue to work with you. Voices in the regions that matter. You know the transactions that are in the pipeline.

Constantly looking for deals, transactions

One final note: We are realists. We are not denying that things for many years were not good. One more in a series of wake-up calls. If it’s been offered to us, we’ll accept it. I have never seen a successful coach speak negatively. No coach never succeeded by being a predictor of doom.

Don’t be eeyore, be piglet