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Newsday.com - Clinton: NY Leaders Holding Back Security Funds:
" Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized New York State officials yesterday, saying they are holding up the distribution of millions of dollars in homeland-security funds.

The New York Democrat released her own study showing that only three of 52 large cities, towns and counties had received a portion of the $97 million the state got this spring from the Department of Homeland Security.

'I think it's designed to keep the money in Albany because of [state] budget problems,' Clinton said, noting that federal law called for the funds to be allocated by Aug. 21. She's pushing for the money to go directly to localities instead of through states."

In classic Republican fashion, the Pataki "administration" responded not with any substantive criticism of her study, or even an assertion that she was wrong, but with a complaint that she was "playing politics with homeland security." Hey, Elmer: she's done her homework on this one. If anybody's "playing politics" it's you.