Capital Tonight’s Kaitlyn Ross sends us these shots of the governor’s hand-signed vetoes of nearly 7,000 budget line items.

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The original signed vetoes are being delivered to the Assembly, which is the house where the bills originated.

Six additional copies were delivered to the Senate, the Assembly, the Budget Office, the executive chamber, and the LCA, along with a copy for state records.

The vetoes represent $522 million in savings.

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UPDATE1: Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver released a statement saying that he and his fellow Democrats are “deeply disappointed” by the governor’s vetoes.

He didn’t mention anything about an override. No word yet from Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson. UPDATE2: Sampson spokesman Austin Shafran sent me a comment, which also appears after the jump.

Silver’s statement appears in full after the jump.

“My Assembly Majority colleagues and I are deeply disappointed that the Governor does not share the Legislature’s goal of sparing our schools from the most devastating cuts and ensuring that our higher education system remains accessible to all New Yorkers,” Silver said.

“We are saddened that the Governor also chose to renege on commitments of funding support from prior years to non-profits and community-based organizations that run free clinics, care for children and the elderly, offer counseling for crime victims and provide other vital services to New Yorkers throughout the state.”

From Shafran:

“Children and taxpayers should not bear the burden of typical Albany politics. The Senate will be coming back to resolve the revenue portion of the budget and to provide education restorations to our
cities and property tax relief to New Yorkers in suburban and rural communities who need it most.”

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