The Senate Republicans just released a statement from their minority leader, Dean Skelos, that seems to put the kibosh on any Democratic hopes of getting GOP assistance with an override of Gov. David Paterson’s vetoes.

The statement, which appears in full after the jump, slams the Democrats’ two-way budget deal that passed last night in a party vote, saying it’s not balanced, fails to create jobs, and “taxes too much and spends too much.”

But here’s the key point:

“After a tortured budget process where they violated the budget reform law, negotiated in total secrecy, excluded Republicans from the process and
rejected every alternative we offered to reduce spending, Senator Sampson and Speaker Silver took matters into their own hands and created an irresponsible, unbalanced budget that Senate Republicans unanimously opposed.”

“They should not expect or count on Senate Republicans to bail them out of the mess that they have made of this budget and the damage they are inflicting on taxpayers.”

The Assembly Democrats say an override is still under review in their house. The speaker has not yet conferenced the question with his members, but with 107 seats under his control, he would theoretically have no problem hitting the two-thirds mark.

STATEMENT BY SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER DEAN SKELOS

By increasing spending with no way to pay for it, Democrats have
created an unbalanced budget that includes no relief for property taxpayers
and continues to cut the STAR property tax relief program by millions of
dollars.

This budget does nothing to create jobs. In fact, Democrats voted to
eliminate half a billion dollars in job creation tax credits that will
jeopardize thousands of jobs, especially upstate.

After raising taxes by more than $10 billion last year, Democrats are
adding billions more in tax and fee hikes this year. This disastrous
budget will hurt every business, every family and every taxpayer in this
state.

The budget taxes too much and spends too much. How much? Even the
Democrat Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Carl Kruger, had no idea
about the exact size of the budget when it was voted on. Despite this,
every Democrat voted for the budget and every taxpayer should be as
outraged as we are.

After a tortured budget process where they violated the budget reform
law, negotiated in total secrecy, excluded Republicans from the process and
rejected every alternative we offered to reduce spending, Senator Sampson
and Speaker Silver took matters into their own hands and created an
irresponsible, unbalanced budget that Senate Republicans unanimously
opposed.

They should not expect or count on Senate Republicans to bail them
out of the mess that they have made of this budget and the damage they are
inflicting on taxpayers.

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