Ken Girardin
@PolicyEngineer
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Fellow, @ManhattanInst Individual freedom, empiricism, infants, innovation and Instant Pot. Primary sources please. All opinions my own.
Connecticut, USA
Joined November 2018
Per its various royal charters, New England has two seasons: 🔴fresh produce 🟢soup (now 'til late May)
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The NY assisted suicide proponents say their proposal would have no fiscal implications for NYS. However, more than one-third of New Yorkers are on Medicaid. How can this be accurate?
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Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be cadres
Imagine buying your kids this plush toy and it starts scolding them for insulting Xi Jinping and demanding they respect the Chinese government’s territorial claims
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Ken @PolicyEngineer Girardin has a suitably scathing take on 1199SEIU's plan to extract dues from NY's Medicaid home health aides - and calls on the feds to block it
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This is an extremely bad thing that New York state and federal officials should be speaking up about. Instead of right-sizing an $11B abuse-and-fraud-laden Medicaid program, NYS is going to let it "unionize," using the dues to lobby for its self-preservation.
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The big question: what will the maximum income be for these subsidies? CT pols are telling sob stories about people making $250K losing their bonus ACA credits (and directing insufficient attention to the core problems with CT's individual market).
In the coming days, I will submit a plan to the legislature to tap into our recently created Emergency State Response Reserve so we can help mitigate impacts of the ACA tax credits Congress failed to extend. We need real action to make healthcare affordable and protect families.
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You mean a public power authority like the one on Long Island, where the public power authority couldn't get the lights back on for several days after Sandy?
It’s past time to cut the cord with Central Hudson’s corporate monopoly on energy and establish a public power authority. With public power, we have the ability to not only save New Yorker’s money but to have it more beholden to the people. Sounds like a no-brainer to me.
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Connecticut has the 3rd-highest electricity rates in the nation after only Hawaii, which is detached from the mainland, and California, which is detached from reality.
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Important clarification: Congress sets agency pay and benefit levels. The union contracts that Trump suspended were essentially side deals that went around Congress. That shouldn't happen in a democracy.
13 House Republicans voted Yes in support of Maine Democratic Rep. Golden's effort to force a floor vote on his bill to repeal Trump's executive order banning collective bargaining for certain federal workers: https://t.co/PCF7hm7JQM Bacon-NE Bresnahan-PA Fitzpatrick-PA Kean-NJ
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To justify the lanes on teacher union contracts.
If teacher credentialing has no measurable impact on student outcomes, why do we continue to insist on it?
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But they should still hold a secret-ballot election, right?
Congratulations to the more than 200 Amazon drivers at the DBK1 facility in Queens for joining the Teamsters. When working people come together and organize, they can take on even the most powerful corporations. I stand with them.
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Most mayors and town supers asking @GovKathyHochul to gut NY's property tax cap preside over 3- or 5-member boards—meaning they need just as many votes to override the cap as they do to pass a budget. This is about optics. They don't want people saying they overrode the tax cap.
🧵Heads-up, NY taxpayers: an innocent-sounding bill, purportedly to 'help' small towns pay for ambulance services, will hit Gov. Hochul's desk in the next few weeks. It's actually part of a clever play to demolish New York's property tax cap.
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It wasn't Mario Procaccino (1966 to 1969). He ran for mayor in 1969, losing to John Lindsay.
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It wasn't Abe Beame (1962 to 1965, 1970 to 1973). He ran for mayor in 1965 and lost, reclaimed his old job in 1969, and then ran successfully for mayor in 1973. For bonus points, the NYC fiscal crisis occurred after he'd been the comptroller 'minding the store'.
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It wasn't Harrison "Jay" Goldin (1974 to 1989). He twice ran for higher office: for NYS Comptroller in 1978 and for mayor in 1989. https://t.co/6Fau1fVT22
nytimes.com
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It wasn't Elizabeth Holtzman (1990 to 1993): she ran for U.S. Senate in 1992. https://t.co/uRRmT25b9s
nytimes.com
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It wasn't Alan Hevesi (1994 to 2001): he ran for mayor in 2001.
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It wasn't Bill Thompson (2002 to 2009): he ran for mayor in 2009.
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It wasn't John Liu (2010 to 2013): he ran for mayor in 2013.
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It wasn't Scott Stringer (2014 to 2021): he ran for mayor in 2021.
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