Rodrigo Avila, the nation's former chief of police who is now a legislator, countered that the accord presented no such threat.
Massachusetts legislators counter-balanced tax caps with a sharp increase in aid to towns and cities, a step Mr. Cuomo rejected.
Some legislators had countered that Mr. Gaffney was trying to raise taxes more than necessary to create a budget surplus in an election year.
County Executive Thomas S. Gulotta and county legislators moved last week to try to counter criticism from bond-rating agencies that they were taking too long to come up with a plan to resolve the county's budget problems.
The recent vow by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) that he "can't compromise" with Democratic legislators on union rights runs sharply counter to preferences of Wisconsinites, according to a new survey of the state sponsored by a conservative think tank.
Five people, including a former state legislator, died in the gunbattle.Pakistani analysts counter that with important state and national elections looming in the coming months, some Indian politicians think Pakistan-bashing will win them votes.
Who knows: the next time legislators seek to ban political contributions from union dues, they might counter with a demand for a shareholder vote on donations to politicians.
Neither proposal, however, will meet with success unless some GOP legislators can be convinced to get on board, which currently runs counter to the Republican caucus platform.
"In order to counter some of their misinformation, I have to inform the legislators that mink production in their state is an important component to the economic base".
But Democrats could counter that such approaches were unconstitutional, deviating from the law that required Florida to hold an election to pick legislators, with the most votes winning.
It would also counter the principle – enshrined in the constitution for federal elections, and established by the supreme court in 1964 for state-level ones – that legislators should represent roughly equal blocs of population, regardless of eligibility.
