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Pressure On Pataki, Bruno As End To Rent Control Nears

By Newsradio 88 Staff

With rent control laws set to expire on Sunday, Governor Pataki met for most of the day with the legislative leadership in Albany. But by the end of the day, he said, nothing much was accomplished. But Pataki expressed the hope that with the pressure of time something could be worked out by the deadline.

But Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno said flat out that he expects the rules covering more than a million apartments here in the city will expire on Sunday night. And Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver found no way to dispute that for the moment, but expects that cooler heads will eventually prevail.

Governor Pataki's vacancy decontrol compromise is not making him any friends. John Zogby says his statewide poll had Pataki's job approval rating at 47 percent, down from 50 percent in a similiar poll last March.

And late yesterday afternoon, the Governor showed up at a Long Island charity golf tournament being run by a landlord's advocate. And that shouldn't help his standing with tenants.