Acting just like his father did when his 1990 environmental bond issue was rejected by the voters of NY State. The Act would authorize borrowing $1.975 billion for land purchases, recycling programs and closing landfills.
I was working in NY State's Correctional Services, and he retaliated against all the State agencies, cutting jobs and budgets, hiring freezes, wanting to force furloughs with no pay on all State workers. The proposal was that the State would withhold our salaries for that week, and then we'd get it back when we left State service or retired. Of course you wouldn't get it if you died. We'd already had two weeks held back when we started working for the State, now he wanted a third week, all so he could close a 900 million dollar gap in the budget. He had hoped to do that with the Bond, but he didn't get his way. In the end, the State Legislature wouldn't approve the furlough plan, and poor Mario was left sucking his thumb. Four years later he was defeated by George Pataki, and I'm betting that pi$$ed him off even more. Andy Panda is just like his father...used to getting his way, and if he doesn't, he threatens and intimidates.
Good ole (not) Mario The Pious.