Pat LaPlante

@epaleezeldin I kept all our old ones! A funnel was invented for a reason.

What started as an effort many years ago to child-proof gas cans turned into an adult-proofing model for millions of Americans who feel that these cans are virtually impossible to use. The first step (BETTER VENTING): The Trump EPA clarified to manufacturers last summer that gas cans can have self-closing vents that restore smoother fuel flow. The next, bigger step (NOZZLE DESIGN): To have the Consumer Product Safety Commission fix the ABSURDLY designed nozzle, Congress will need to pass legislation to change federal law. It shouldn’t take 3 hands and 5 minutes to pour gas out of a gas can!

@NewYorkStateAG What did the suspects rap sheets look like?

This weekend, I stood arm in arm with the family and loved ones of Kaori Patterson-Moore, a 7-month-old from Brooklyn whose life was stolen too soon in a horrific act of gun violence. No family should experience this unspeakable tragedy. This senseless violence must end.

@jbartee @chriswithans Then they lay off the temp when the permanent EE returns, temp files for unemployment benefits and the ER’s UI rate increases the following year.

@chriswithans Ideally? The owner/manager covers the extra work load, or a temporary hire to offload is put in...

I’m serious about paid leave. Yeah, it’s fine for the public sector when the taxpayer pays the bill and most of the work is fake. How do people think it works in the private sector? You have a team of six people. One person goes AWOL for six months. What do you think happens to the other five people?

@Catmom7114 @ronsterd89 We’ve used ours on glass cooktops for over 25 years- no problems.

@ronsterd89 Now we have a glass cooktop so I can’t use it there.

Anybody remember a cast iron skillet ?

@marcorandazza Cutting costs is always the last solution considered - always more $$$

What if you cut the fucking WASTE and corruption from the budget instead of confiscating people's property?

@CaptainMarooner @lolnvmtho I have a 35 year old full size and a 20 year old collapsible Totes. They were used constantly and have stood up to the Upstate NY weather challenge!

@lolnvmtho Every umbrella in every store around me is chinese piece of crap that breaks within hours of use. It makes sense to not want to waste 15$ on trash that breaks from a single gust of wind.

I noticed Gen Z ppl don’t carry umbrellas. They just walk in the rain lol

@IamSean90 There’s never enough tax $-never.

Ah yes, this ridiculous idea that you're poor because someone else is rich. This is like believing if your neighbor gets a promotion, setting their car on fire will put more money in your pocket

@Bennieeexyz That’s how I passed a Statustics course. Only class I had to function like that. I don’t know why, but passed with a respectable grade.

When I was in law school I was tangentially friends with a girl who never showed up to class. Skipped lectures, dodged every seminar, had a "family emergency" for every moot court session. The night before 2nd year finals she was over at my place and casually mentioned she'd spent the last week watching every recorded lecture at 2x speed. She placed top 10 out of 300 students. Every Single Exam. And it wasn't just that she remembered the material, she actually UNDERSTOOD it. Like, laterally, practically, the way most of us who dragged ourselves to every 8am class still couldn't. She could apply case law to hypotheticals better than people who had been gunning for law review all year. I always shuddered thinking about what she could do if she actually tried. But she was perfectly content to just… chill. Some people are built different and honestly? It's annoying.

@Heminator Hasn’t that been the process? Depending on the $ amount and evidence the enforcement kicked up to higher levels. Only the highest $ amounts get to prosecutors? It’s an ROI and volume thing

If this is the case, they need to make it the state’s problem. Put a hard cap on how much federal money they get for social programs.

@ForwardSaratoga I’m very grateful for the opportunity I had to join the NYS workforce. We aren’t all ungrateful. We try to make sure to support our local independent businesses whenever we can.

This is how New York State government employees view the taxpayers who fund them. SAVE TIER SIX!

@VickieforNYC Bernie Sanders has been hanging in NYC screaming Tax The Rich ! He owns 3 homes and hasn’t had a W-2 job in how many decades???? Why is he even here?

I cannot imagine the gall required to bill a $17k yacht rental to your campaign, much less trips to a Dubai resort. Incredible that this is just standard operating procedure for this guy.

@delia_cai Now you need something that can hold the car seat and be multitasking-Cadillac of stroller and accommodate the car seat. We used to move our babies from one to another.

can I ask a dumb question .... like why do kids strollers in NY need to be that nice/complex ..... I recall being pushed around by my parents in the Midwest in a stroller that was basically a bandaid stretched between two toothpicks and it wasn't comfy but it did fold up easy etc

@delia_cai 😂 The umbrella stroller!! Yes, once they can sit up and hold their heads-it was the go to transition! Lightweight and easy mobility!

@DaquanEgypt @ElephantofLox @Moonlight_myths Unless there’s more to the story than is being told. Parents may have a financial issue or child is not being responsible financially.

600 is cheap but imagine how much more freedom money she will attract living on her own outside of her/his childhood bedroom. Parents are ridiculous you’re suppose to teach your children how to experience they own money without draining them. This is a traumatic experience not a healthy 1

My mom got mad when I told her I would rather live on my own that keep paying her $600 a month in rent. I'm 25 years old and have been paying $60 a week in rent to my parents for a while now. I recently landed a decent paying job and this morning, I received a message from my mom telling me that from now on, the rent would be $150 per week. I text her back, saying I would rather live elsewhere. I pay for my own food and I'm not willing to pay $150 per week just for a room to sleep in at my own mothers house. With that kind if money, I could rent a small apartment or even split the rent with a friend for less.

@ElephantofLox @Moonlight_myths I had to knock my Amazon subscription for toilet paper, paper towels, dishwasher pods back after my last adult son moved out!😂😂😂. I just sent him with a box of overstock for his apartment to thin the back stock!

You should move out at 25 if you can afford it, but you are going to find 600 is very cheap when you add the rent, gas, electric, internet, and water. Plus, all the things that you are probably not counting on like, paper towels, paper plates, toilet paper, laundry detergent, dish washing detergent, soap etc. The list is long for all the free stuff you get, that adds a lot of extra expense for your mother. Sometimes I go to the grocery store and spend over $200, and most of it isn't even food.

@magills_ @KurtSchlichter Why don’t we ditch Medicaid and roll that $ back tythe people who pay it into the pot?

@magills_ @KurtSchlichter W-2 workers paid for both. We paid a dedicated tax for Medicare coverage-for our post retirement years -MANDATORY. Medicaid is paid from our income taxes-MANDATORY!

“They’re called Medicaid and Medicare and the government spends over $2 trillion on them every year!” “Surely with numbers like that every American citizen will have exquisite health care?” “No, mainly it goes to pay foreign scammers who set up fake hospices in California .”

@SpeakerMenin @PIX11News @HenryRosoff Nothing is free. You want NYC and NYS taxpayers to pay for your transportation. It’s unsustainable to ask taxpayers who have zero access to public transportation to pay for people who do. Will they pay our car insurance or car registration?

Let’s make subways and buses free for the New Yorkers who need it most.

@SpeakerMenin @PIX11News @HenryRosoff What about the the other NYS residents that have zero access to public transportation that the state is trying to fee us another $25/car? Do you agree with exempting us from that fee?

@MichaelGatesESQ @raylachen Same reason NYS AG isn’t and only does cases against Trump.

Why isn't the CALIFORNIA Attorney General (Rob Bonta) all over this?! Why do Californians need the FEDS to be investigating our waste, fraud, and abuse?!

@magills_ @KurtSchlichter Medicare= we pay for future benefits we earned by working and contributing. Medicaid=Social care for poor and disabled who did not necessarily contribute, taxpayers fund socially to care for their basic needs.