New York: Still No Budget, GOP Backing Paterson, Albany Is a Joke 1.90K Jeff Neumann 06/30/10 06:36AM Filed to: Polidicks Polidicks New York David Paterson budgets Politics Albany State budgets are pretty important. So it's up to paid, elected officials to figure this stuff out, right? Not in New York—the state that is still without a budget, and that doesn't seem to have one semi-competent lawmaker.