In the letter, the board warned that unless the island were shared, "Governors Island easily could become the exclusive preserve for Manhattan visitors, while Brooklyn residents are left out".
Aides to Tommy G. Thompson, the secretary of health and human services, said he shared the governors' concerns.
Paul Wyckoff, a spokesman for the tunnel project, played down the committee's suggestion of a long delay, and officials in New Jersey emphasized that the panel's views were not necessarily shared by Governor Christie.
Carl Korn, a spokesman for New York State United Teachers, said that while the union shared "the governor's frustration over the implementation of the law," tying teacher evaluations to state education aid was the "wrong approach".
Jeffrey R. Gural, the chairman of Newmark Knight Frank and the owner of two upstate racinos that are members of the New York Gaming Association, said he had contributed about $200,000 last year to the committee, chiefly because he supported Mr. Cuomo's agenda and shared the governor's view that public employees unions had grown too powerful in Albany.
In 1992, Bill Clinton began his run as the first Democrat to serve two full terms since Franklin D. Roosevelt by dragging his party toward the center -- an impulse that Dr. Dean largely shared as governor of Vermont, then partly rejected in the face of the partisan polarization that followed the 2000 presidential recount.
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New Yorkers share Governor Pataki's frustration over how federal antiterrorism money takes a detour around New York these days to places that do not seem as threatened by terrorism.
