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To: Alex Mt who wrote (54046)	10/29/2000 2:26:43 AM
From: Alex Mt	Respond to of 769670

NY Post: WE WARNED YOU Sunday,October 29,2000 We really hate to say we told you so - but we told you so. We said two years ago that if New York were to replace a United States senator of the majority party with a member of the minority party, bad things would happen. But New York went right ahead and replaced a Republican, Alfonse D'Amato, with a Democrat, Charles Schumer. Bad things happened. Here's just one example. No place in America is more dependent on mass transit than the New York Metro region. And Al D'Amato - working in concert with the retiring Daniel Patrick Moynihan - saw to it that Washington paid sufficient attention to New York's mass-transit needs. Exit D'Amato. Enter Schumer. And New York's cut of federal transit cash promptly fell - from $196 million in 1996 to $64 million in 1999. "We're certainly not getting our share," Steve Weber of the Regional Plan Association told Crain's New York Business last summer. We'd call that an understatement. This year alone, New York - with 30 percent of the nation's mass-transit riders - was to get a scant 1.5 percent of the $1 billion Congress set aside for new projects. Don't blame this on Schumer. It's how business is done on Capitol Hill - and, besides, what's done is done. What New York needs now is a U.S. senator of that body's majority party. Happily, the election of Rick Lazio to the Senate on Nov. 7 is guaranteed to do the trick. If the Senate remains in Republican hands - and the smart money says it will - Republican Lazio will be well-situated to look after Gotham's needs. But if it should shift to the Democrats, then Schumer will be the go-to guy. He's good at that. So vote for Lazio. We don't want to have to say we told you so ever again.