I try to give people the benefit of the doubt whenever I can, probably to a fault. In this event however, there does seem to be metrics for the term “separating the wheat from the chaff” available to us.
There was a conversation I caught last week where Governor Cuomo was talking about some person from his staff that was responsible for asking for more money from the federal government. His comment went along the lines that the advocate wasn’t supposed to ask for a certain amount of money in bargaining, it was only to keep saying they needed more because that was their job. “Resource Hoarder” seemed like the best way to describe it.