Without a doubt, And throw in a bigger sell out to unions also.
Even with NY facing a $10 Billion dollar deficit Pataki has increased spending by $3 Billion (At least with Grey Davis in Ca he is at least cutting somethings) with more to come because Pataki still plans on adding 720,000 more people onto the state doles via his Family health Plus and Healthy NY medicaid schemes.
http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/fhplus/index.htm
And that $90 Billion number I gave you is a bit deceptive because it is actually way more since Pataki loves to push massive unfunded mandates onto the counties (Almost every county in NY has had double digit property tax increases consecutively the past couple of years).